{"id":113022,"date":"2009-12-15T20:37:56","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T01:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bssd.org\/?p=3276"},"modified":"2009-12-15T20:37:56","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T01:37:56","slug":"white-mountain-school-sign-is-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/113022","title":{"rendered":"White Mountain School Sign is Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.bssd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/IMG_0123.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3277\" title=\"IMG_0123\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bssd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/IMG_0123-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0123\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Andy Haviland, Principal, White Mountain<\/p>\n<p>Julie Mathews, an Anchorage artist, spent a week and a half in White Mountain working with students to create a school entrance sign. The sign depicts the four seasons of the year and shows some of the activities and wildlife the community enjoys.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3278\" title=\"IMG_0126\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bssd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/IMG_0126-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0126\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Julie created all of the individual tiles, glazed and painted the border of the sign before shipping them to White Mountain. The students (k-12) all worked together to design the seasonal pictures in the middle and then paint them before going through the glazing\/firing process.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3281\" title=\"IMG_0488\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bssd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/IMG_0488-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0488\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The students also had an opportunity to make their own piece of pottery with Julie&#8217;s assistance. Julie trained the White Mountain school staff on the use of our new kiln, so that the school can continue to work with the students in exploring the fine arts.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3279\" title=\"IMG_0465\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bssd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/IMG_0465-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0465\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The small pieces separating the seasons come from the tiles Julie created with us that were destroyed when our school burned in 2006.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3280\" title=\"IMG_0470\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bssd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/IMG_0470-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0470\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; \">Julie Mathews with our finished sign.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; \">\n<p style=\"text-align: center; \"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.bssd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/IMG_0488.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; \">\n<p style=\"text-align: center; \">\n<p style=\"text-align: auto;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Andy Haviland, Principal, White Mountain Julie Mathews, an Anchorage artist, spent a week and a half in White Mountain working with students to create a school entrance sign. The sign depicts the four seasons of the year and shows some of the activities and wildlife the community enjoys. Julie created all of the individual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":969,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/969"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}