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| Katie Skvorak |
Monday night, the community and art lovers from Windham
and Raymond gathered at Windham High School to celebrate arts and music
throughout the district. Showing off art that yearly attendees have come to
know and love, and demonstrating and displaying new projects and work from
painting to sculpture to performances by the Windham Chamber Singers and the
third grade chorus from Windham Primary School.
“This is amazing the work the staff members put in for
this,” said Christine Hessler, the director of curriculum, instruction and
assessment for RSU14.
This year’s art show featured new art projects from
classes at every grade level.
The new wood sculpture class run by teacher Kim Chasse
has been “real successful,” he said. “It offers something to these teenage boys
who need to get their hands on stuff. Power tools, chisels. It really filled a
void here.” The projects like sculptures, identity walking sticks and totem
poles were a nice addition to the show.
“There are some amazing pieces at each grade level and
the variety is astonishing,” said Superintendent Sandy Prince. “I like the clay
pieces. It’s great for the parents and kids to see the work. We do so much for
other areas, it’s great to showcase the arts.” 
Another artist, Brad Randall, turned his passion for
mixed martial arts into artwork about balance. “The work that goes into
sculpting a piece is simplistic yet arduous. The pieces that come out are so
interestingly different from what goes in that I feel they need to be different
from the original even in terms of how the piece stands,” Randall said in his
essay “Inside the Mind”.
“A rainy day makes a great turn out,” said high school
principal Chris Howell as he welcomed the attendees. “It’s great to see the
faces that go with the artwork,” he added.
Manchester School art teacher Angelika Blanchard felt the
whole show came together really well and said that they were able to fit in
what they had for art, but this year had more projects and next year they will
need to find more tables.
The art show was open every evening until Friday.
