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Art work of 3rd, 4th Grade Cooper students to be displayed at Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts

By: Deb Spiess
| Published 02/11/2016

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THE WOODLANDS, Texas - Third and fourth grade students from The John Cooper School created fused glass fish in their art classes that will be on display in the Hillery Community Gallery at The Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts from February 27 through March 29.

A reception for the artists will be held on Thursday, March 3 between 5 and 7 p.m. and the museum will also have art activities for those who wish to participate on March 3 as part of Texas Art Educators Association (TAEA) Big Art Day.

Cooper's Lower School art teacher, Amy Dietrich, said the approximately 150 students who learned to make the fused glass combined creativity with problem solving skills to create the unique pieces. Students cut clear glass into the fish body shape, then selected and arranged colored glass on top of the fish body, layering up to four pieces high. When fused in a kiln, the layers melt and overlap in a fluid way.

"That is the magical part of working with glass," she said. "The way the layers interact with each other and the light. Students learn art/science terms of transparent, opaque, states of matter (liquid and solid), hypothesis of what might happen during fusing, problem solving and evaluation. Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers prevail, in the arts, ideas and expression prevail."

The Pearl Fincher Museum is located at 6815 Cypresswood Drive, Spring, TX 77379. For more information, hours and directions, visit the website at www.pearlmfa.org. There is limited parking at the museum lot; additional parking is located at the Barbara Bush Library and the Cypress Creek Christian Church.

Established in 1988, The John Cooper School is a Pre-K through Grade 12 independent, college preparatory school that has a current enrollment of 1,200 students. www.johncooper.org.

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