Can you say cubism? Piner 3rd grade students with their outstanding Picasso self-portraits. Keeping Arts In Mind.

Recently in art: Using pottery tools, 4th grade students at Piner created vessels with lids similar to those created by ancient artisans. Students then painted the textured clay with brightly colored tempera paints. Wonderful! @Joe_Bertucci_ @NKCESKids1st @MrsCrum3

Keeping Arts In Mind: Piner students are excited to create Pop Art paintings for the New Year ! Amazing!@Joe_Bertucci_ @NKCESKids1st @MrsCrum3

Keeping Arts In Mind: Piner 4th grade students learned to weave birchwood baskets in the style of early American civilizations and pioneers. Amazing!

Keeping Arts In Mind: Piner 4th grade students learned to weave birchwood baskets in the style of early American civilizations and pioneers. Amazing!

Keeping Arts In Mind: Fabulous Piner artists create fictional landscapes a` la Marc Chagall with mixed media-including salt! Dreamy!@Joe_Bertucci_ @NK4ArtsEd @nkcesgrants

Keeping Art In Mind: Piner students proudly display their shoe drawings made with support from the Arts In Mind grant. #NKCES

Keeping Arts In Mind: this week, K-3 Piner students made puppets. K students also made puppet stories; 1st grade created plays; 2nd/3rd grade created Google Drawings. MA:Pr6.1.2, MA:Pr6.1.3, TH:Cr21.1, TH:Cr3.1.K @PinerPrincipal @MrsCrum3 @NKCESKids1st @nkcesgrants @Joe_Bertucci_

Happy Youth Art Month from some of our Piner Art Club members, seen here expressing themselves with their original photo props.#NKCESKids1st #NK4ArtsEd #ArtsInMind @PinerPrincipal

Piner students were excited during our schoolwide trip to see Rudolph the Musical at the Taft Theatre. Thanks for an amazing opportunity to keep Arts in Mind. #NKCES

Piner first graders play spin drums they decorated with Native American symbols in art class. Art/music/social studies/fun connections. Keeping Arts In Mind. #NKCESKids1st

Piner Performing Arts Club practicing for their winter performance with instruments from the Arts In Mind grant. Tremendous opportunity! #NK4ArtsEd @NKCESKids1st

Piner students act out Dr. Seuss' My Many Colored Days with the Carnegie Arts Center workshop, connecting the Performing Arts & English Language Arts. The Carnegie visit was made possible by the Arts In Mind grant awarded to Piner this year.

Piner third grade students expertly weaving Native American textiles using wooden looms provided by the Arts In Mind grant. Awesome opportunity!

Our favorite Performing Arts teacher, inspired by this week's Carnegie Center for the Arts theater workshop for our K-2 students at Piner. Awesome!

Great learning experience today at NKCES #NKyArtsEd

#KYGoDigital Grateful for all of the presenters! Thank you for a great day of inspiration! Purple cows rule!

#jcpschat A.3. I am planning to begin reading And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. #KYGoDigital

#jcpschat A. 3 One of the biggest takeaways was that learning has changed. The world has changed, and we need to change with it.