<p><br />Beacon Hill Nursery hosted their bi-annual art show on April 28th, 2011,<br />acknowledging the importance of artwork in children’s lives. &nbsp;The artwork<br />featured by the students in this year’s event, titled “Art, Naturally”, was<br />inspired by nature and the schools’ new natural playscape. &nbsp;Current<br />students, as well as alumnae, contributed to the show. &nbsp;<br /><br />Parents of BHNS children were invited to the school for wine and appetizers,<br />while they took in the whimsical masterpieces. &nbsp;Some of the elaborate pieces<br />on display include a “woven art” nature scene built with chicken wires and<br />assorted &nbsp;fabrics that took several months for the Rainbow room to build,<br />and a spray painted series of images on canvas, “street art”, that the<br />kindergarten class put together to celebrate more unconventional forms of<br />natural art. &nbsp;<br /><br />Beacon Hill Nursery School held its first school-wide art show in the spring<br />of 1993 in memory of a teacher, Gary Silverstein. &nbsp;The first event<br />commemorated not only his life but his commitment to the arts. &nbsp;In recent<br />years, as the school has become more immersed in the Reggio Emilia<br />philosophy, so has the school’s effort to incorporate the children’s artwork<br />into the curriculum, and the documentation of their work in the process.<br />“It is about the story of the creation, and not just the finished project”,<br />says Lucinda Ross, Executive Director of BHNS. &nbsp;“As such, the artwork is<br />displayed alongside written words and photographs that document the<br />children’s work”.</p>
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<p>Beacon Hill Times, May 10, 2011</p>