Students celebrate first opening during Riverside Aboriginal Arts Festival
A group of budding artists and poets celebrated the opening of their first show Thursday afternoon.
Grade 5 and 8 students from Riverside Public School spent much of the spring working closely with professional artists and poets to produce work for the school’s Aboriginal Arts Festival, now in its second year. Their show, sponsored by the Saskatchewan Arts Board, opened yesterday at the John V. Hicks Gallery where it will run until May 31.
Noted visual artist Jack Jensen, a founding member of the local Kyla Artist Group, gave students from two Riverside classes pointers on visual art throughout the month of April.
“I tried to make them look at things critically… just be more mindful of everything around them,” he said. “I think they didn’t know quite what to expect, but they warmed up to it probably by the second class.”