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Times Globe, Saint John, NB Friday,
February 11, 2000 |
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Artist
Valerie LeBlanc is joined by the Grade Six class at Barnhill Memorial
School for a close-up look at some of her work. |
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HANDS-ON
EXPERIENCE |
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An art project at Barnhill Memorial School
aims to get students thinking about their future and working with their hands - literally |
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| favourite mascots, creatures and animals. "the purpose of this project is to show the students that they have the power to do what they want to do," says Ms LeBlanc, who hails from Shemogue, a tiny settlement between Moncton and Shediac. "It should also help them think through their decisions." Ms. LeBlanc, who runs Shemogue Glass Carving with her artist husband Daniel Dugas, will take the drawings to her studio, photocopy them and transfer the images to rubber stencils. She will then carve them into half-inch thick frosted glass. The final work will probably be about four by five feet and fit into one or both of the school's two trophy | cases at the entrance of the school. The project, which is being paid for through the Artist in Schools program, a Department of Education initiative now in its second year, will wrap up in about a month when Ms. LeBlanc returns to Barnhill Memorial to give back the students' drawings and install the piece. Those who are familiar with her work know that it will probably turn out to be a centerpiece for the school. A native of Halifax, she is perhaps best known in New-Brunswick for designing and creating a permanent sculpture in Moncton City Hall dedicated to the memory of the 14 women who were murdered at l'Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal on Dec. 6, 1989. | |||||||||||||
| By John Chilibeck | ||||||||||||||
| Times Globe staff writer | ||||||||||||||
| Students at Barnhill Memorial School are getting a hands-on experience creating a new work of art. Respected glasswork and multi-media artist Valerie LeBlanc has been asking students this week in grade 3 through 6 to trace their hands on paper and fill in the drawings with the unique lines and crevices that palm readers use to predict people's futures. Along with the hand drawings, the students are writing down 10 activities or jobs they want to do when they grow up. They are also sketching their | ||||||||||||||
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