Here is a peek into some Lower and Middle School art installations around campus.
Also, don’t forget to mark your calendar and plan to visit the Howe Library in Hanover, NH to view Crossroads Academy K–8 student artwork being displayed during the months of March and April in the children and teen section of the library.
ART CHALLENGE BY CHOICE!
2026 Clean Water Week Poster Contest
Poster Submission Due: March 1, 2026NH Students Grades 1-3 and 4-6 are invited to submit a poster for NHWPCA and NHDES’s 2026 Clean Water Week Poster Contest!
Kindergarten
100 DAY DOT HEARTS: Kindergarten students created these colorful heart artworks to celebrate one hundred days in school! While creating they were tasked to count the dots and see if they used 100 (or more)!
LOVE MONSTER: After reading this fabulous story by award-winning British author and illustrator Rachel Bright. Students took inspiration and collaged their own love monster!
ALEXANDER CALDER INSPIRED STAMOBILES: Alexander Calder was an American sculptor known both for his innovative mobiles that embrace chance in their aesthetic, his static “stabiles”, and his monumental public sculptures. Kindergarten students created their own rendition using wire, shapes, and his classic primary colors for their creations!
First Grade
WARM & COOL HEARTS: After learning about living artist Jim Dine, students celebrated the symbol of the heart by creating these warm and cool oil pastel watercolor resist artworks.
SNOW GLOBES: The first graders returned to 3D as winter approached. After we read the book Snow Globe Family by Jane O’Connor, they created a paper snow globe with views of a snow figure and drew on the light from the moon to create shadows and highlights.
Second Grade
CHARLEY HARPER INSPIRED SPARROW AND WINTER PINE BOUGH: Charley Harper was a Cincinnati-based American Modernist artist. He was best known for his highly stylized wildlife prints, posters, and book illustrations. Students used a printed technique to create their pine bough and after collaging a Charley Harper inspired sparrow to adorn their pine branch.
Third Grade
STAINED GLASS WINTER LANDSCAPES: Third grade students created mixed-media winter landscapes. First creating “stained glass” trees, painting a background and adding the trees using foreground, middle ground, and background.
Fourth Grade
ISLAMIC STAINED GLASS WINDOWS: Fourth grade students looked at a variety of Islamic art and architecture. They each focused on a geometric design capturing the colorful stained glass windows found in many mosques.
Fifth Grade
CURRIER & IVES WINTER BIRCH TREES: Fifth grade students created Winter Birch Trees inspired by printmakers Currier and Ives and their iconic winter landscape prints. Today, original Currier and Ives prints are much sought-after by collectors, and modern reproductions of them are popular decorations.
YARN WIRE HEARTS: To celebrate the season fifth grade students explored the tactile quality of using a variety of yarns and wire to create a fun textural display.
Sixth Grade
FALLING NAME: Imagine if you took a big bucket filled with the letters that make up your name and dumped it out into a pile on the floor. Well, these art projects may be what it would look like. Students were tasked to use block or bubble letters to create a pile of letters composing their name. The letters should touch to create closed spaces between them where students included a variety of lines and patterns. A color palette was selected and a background was chosen to compliment the composition and add contrast to the typography design.
MONOCHROMATIC LANDSCAPE PAINTINGS: Sixth grade students learned how to create a value scale or gradient and applied this technique to a landscape painting demonstrating atmospheric perspective.
Seventh Grade
EMILY DICKINSON PORTFOLIO COVERS: Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. She has since been regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry. Students integrated art with English to create watercolor botanical artworks that became the covers to their portfolio inspired by their Emily Dickinson unit.
NAME ILLUSTRATIONS: Throughout history illustrations have accompanied the written word. Starting with the ancient tradition of illuminated letters associated with scripts, hand creating art is often used to represent text in stories, poems, business names, etc. For this project students illustrated the word that is most connected to them – their name.
Eighth Grade
NAME MANDALAS: “Mandala” is a Sanskrit word meaning “circle” or “completion”. It is often recognized to represent wholeness. Students used shapes, colors, patterns, and designs to express themselves as they incorporated their name. Can you find their name?
HOOD MUSEUM OF ART FIELD TRIP: After discussing in art class what makes a powerful and dynamic photo and the history behind the image. Students integrated that knowledge along with history and English classes and visited the museum and saw the exhibit of Inhabiting Historical Time: Slavery and Its Afterlives which explores slavery’s impact and its enduring legacies via histories of oppression, resistance, subversion, and resilience. Objects related to these themes range from a 19th century ceramic by David Drake, an enslaved man, to Civil Rights era photography, and contemporary artists’ exploration of enslavement and resistance.
