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Artist in residence program
Fostering creativity in our local schools.
The Sandpoint Center for the Arts/ Arts Alliance has been working with the Lake Pend O'reille School district since 2009. In that time we have produced muliple projects affecting over 1200 students, parents and community members.
Our new project will start in May. The artist-in-residence will be Clarabelle van Niekerk. Read more about this artist here.

One of our first projects 

In this cooperative project with Sandpoint Charter School, middle school students designed and painted historical images of Sandpoint.  Inspired by photographs in the Ross Hall Collection, the images were painted in black and white.   Painter Diana Schuppel and Art Teacher Morgan Krajczar taught drawing and painting techniques, worked with students individually and in groups, and taught students how to create large-scale works through projecting.  The finished murals were on display in 2007-08 at the Sandpoint Post Office.
A quilting experience
 
Terrie Kralik, of Moose Country Quilts, has been an Arts Alliance Artist in Residence at both Sagle Elementary School (2006-2009) and Northside Elementary (2009).  Students learned the techniques and traditions of quilting, created fabric mosaic projects and took field trips to a quilt exhibit at Northern Lights Utility Company.
Protecting our local waters
 
In 2009-10, artist in residence Lynn Guier worked with 4th & 5th grade students to create a public mosaic mural in the theme of “Protecting Our Local Waters.”   The students and teachers created handmade ceramic relief pieces out of clay in the form of plants, bugs, animals and birds. These ceramic pieces have been incorporated a ceramic tile mosaic mural, designed by the artist, based on student drawings.  The finished mural is on the west wall of Washington School, on South Lavina Street in south Sandpoint.

 

 Bug, Butterflies and Wildflowers
 
Arts Alliance Artist in Residence Lynn Guier will work with 3rd and 4th grade students at Washington Elementary School to create a ceramic mosaic public art project. Students created clay mosaic tiles for a public instillation at the Jeff Jones square.
Human Rights Mural
 
 In Spring 2010, Holly Walker, and Amy O’Hara had an idea: to create a mural for the new Charter High School.  They proposed the idea to bring in Lynn Guier as an Artist in Residence, to lead art students in a collaborative project.  Human rights was the chosen theme, to build on existing curriculum and deliver a powerful message.
Welcome to Sandpoint 

 The Arts Alliance partnered with Sandpoint Charter School in winter/spring 2011 to create a mural for downtown Sandpoint. Lynn Guier, Artist in Residence, led the project after school. Thirty students worked on the project, from various schools. Most students were middle school age. They began with the topic of diversity in Sandpoint.

 

 
 
 
 
Bulldog Mural 

Artist Lynn Guier is currently working at Sandpoint High School on a 22'X4' glass mosic mural. Students from the art classes designed the initial concept of the piece. With the help of Lynn they are now installing the mural in the main entrance to the high school office.