Woodmere Students Collaborate Between Earth and Sky

Each year, gathers children from ages eight to 16, and teaches them how to use mixed media to create a children’s garden for the upcoming year.

Last year, students created birdhouses, and a giant birds’ nest visible from Germantown Avenue and East Bells Mill Road.

The students work individually to create unique pieces, and work together for larger projects.

“Our youngest is eight, and we watched as an 11-year-old took her under her wing. There’s 22 children and they all have a community here,” said Hildy Tow, the assistant curator of education for Woodmere.

In it’s seventh year, the program is using the theme “Between Earth and Sky” for its theme this year. Among the creations produced during the three-week art class are spirit guides for the garden, a giant cloud made of metallic materials and a beanstalk, fir which each child made leaves of different fabrics, foils and other media.

“The students learn about different materials, and they learn to collaborate on projects, that a collaborative art project can work together almost like an orchestra,” Tow said.

The classes are now over, but the students will wait eagerly for the end of August, when their works will be installed in the garden and the museum will have a reception to celebrate the newest exhibition in it’s children’s garden.