2/11/2026
Walker Primary School Hosts Its 45th Annual Art Show
| MARIETTA, Ga. – This week, The Walker Primary School opened its 45th Annual Art Show. This year’s theme, “The Art of Music,” features about 1,000 pieces of student artwork representing 28 categories of music. Students work in many different media, such as clay, water color, collage, sewing, paper mache, pencil drawings and much more. Each year, Jessica Whittingham, Primary School Art/Science Teacher and Assistant Division Head, weaves together a magnificent display of artwork completed by Walker Primary School students (ages 3-6) throughout the first half of the school year. Whittingham, whoc This year, “The Art of Music” takes viewers on an adventure across genres and through decades of music and culture. “I truly love the interdisciplinary nature of the learning behind the Art Show,” said Jessica Waugh, Head of the Primary School. “In addition to learning about different genres, songs or instruments, students also learn about the culture of a region, history during a time period and geography.” Whittingham said she typically begins brainstorming ideas during the summer and makes a final decision on a theme by the beginning of the school year. “It is important that I find a theme that will allow for enough different types of projects and to be able to utilize a wide variety of materials and artistic techniques,” she said. “We typically have about 55-65 different projects, and I have not yet repeated an Art Show theme.” While students learn about and apply new artistic skills to create masterpieces, they sometimes incorporate science or emergent literacy into their projects. For instance, in one of the exhibits called Musical Science students drew the sound waves of them saying “I love you.” Students act as docents and tour their families around, and each student receives a personalized guidebook that provides information about the exhibit and details the projects the individual student worked on. This year, the information was housed in a CD case in keeping with the theme of the show. “Children always love seeing their names on things, so having those personalized touches means a lot,” Whittingham said. Waugh said, “The best part is, while children have fun exploring these concepts, they are strengthening their fine motor skills and developing hand strength that will serve them well in the years to come.” |
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