By Gabriela Hernandez, Education & Programs Assistant
On Saturday, October 3rd, Creative Artists Agency employees volunteered their time to join P.S. ARTS at Coeur d’Alene Avenue Elementary School for a day of campus beautification and fall-inspired art projects. CAA Day, as we like to call it at P.S. ARTS, has become a highly anticipated event on our annual Community Engagement calendar!
Planning the CAA Day art projects is just as much fun as making them on the day of the event; the P.S. ARTS office is always filled with samples and supplies in the week leading up to the big day! This year, we created eight art projects for students and volunteers to create together including: Polka Dot Pumpkins inspired by artist Yayoi Kusama; Picasso Monsters; a Suminagashi (Japanese paper marbling) project involving the silhouette of fall trees; Day of the Dead Tin Sugar Skulls; and masks inspired by artist Nick Cave’s Soundsuits. We took over the campus lunch tables, passed out various art supplies, and by 9:30am the Coeur d’Alene campus was swarming with the energy of excited kids ready to get their hands messy and make art!
City Year, the national service organization, also joined us at CAA Day for a campus beautification project. Last year, City Year members added new hopscotch and four-square courts to the Coeur d’Alene blacktop. This year, CAA volunteers made sure they were still looking their best by touching them up with paint throughout the day.
Coeur d’Alene has been one of P.S. ARTS’ partner schools since 1992, and we are so thrilled to be able to share arts-filled experiences with the entire school community through events like CAA Day!
We want to give a huge thank you to the CAA Foundation and City Year for making this such a bright and beautiful day.
