Students help children display art
Kyle Wittenbraker

Fort Worth area children are “Wild at heART” and their work can be seen at the Mary Couts Burnett Library thanks to the efforts of several TCU art history students.

“It’s a collection of all the kid’s work that they wanted to put up over the six weeks we taught it,” said Liz Dixon, a freshman art education major.

The children’s art will be on display until Dec. 5 on the wall facing Bistro Burnett.

The students taught two classes of children, ages 6 to 14, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. on Fridays as part of the Animals in Art project, Dixon said.

“We taught programs over the animal kingdom,” Dixon said. “Fish one day and mammals the next day.”
The classes started in October and ended Nov. The program is conducted every semester with a new theme, said Correy Jefferson, art workshop coordinator.

Members of the TCU chapter of the Texas Art Educators Association teach the classes, said Jefferson, a senior art education major.

“We use a variety of different media and teach them about a variety of different artists,” Jefferson said.

Each week the children used different materials to create their art. They used charcoal, chalk, pencils, colored pencils, oil based crayons, papier-mâché and other materials in the class, Dixon said. Students taught the children about artists such as Pablo Picasso and Leonardo da Vinci.

Jarod Fuller, a senior anthropology major, said the art work brightens up the area.

“It gives people something to look at while they enjoy their coffee and the flat screen television,” said Jarod Fuller, a senior anthropology and radio-TV-film major. “This piece looks like the primordial lizard that came out of the ocean and turned into man.”