Art students create animal tiles, pop art reproduction to end year

Ridgefield — Before the most recent school year let out, Ridgefield School District elementary students were busy creating impressive works of art.

At South Ridge Elementary School, fifth- and sixth-graders in Heather Fukuchi’s art classes created ceramic tiles inspired from animals native to the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge.

Students picked their own animals, researched them on the internet and sketched them before painting them on tile.

Fukuchi will create a mosaic mural of the tiles to be installed in the new South Ridge building.

Alan Adams’ sixth grade art students paint a mural in a different part of the school each year, and this year the students painted a reproduction of Roy Lichtenstein’s mural for the World’s Fair in 1964. Adams selected Lichtenstein’s work to support the students’ studies of pop art from throughout the year.