Art is for Everyone

A Creative Community

Created as a whole-school art project, Art Is for Everyone explores collaboration, incremental change, and the idea that art is always available to us.

Like a student’s time at The Logan School, the work grew gradually, layer by layer. Each student’s contribution responded to what came before while creating possibilities for what could come next.

A class of Primary students began with one of the fundamental elements of art: line. They worked freely, creating lines joyfully, without a plan and without an expectation of perfection. Following classes discovered shapes within those intersecting lines, outlined them, filled them with color, and began transforming the original marks into something new.

As the piece traveled through every class and age group in the school, each group added another layer. Students explored value using handmade charcoal passed down from an earlier segment of work. Others experimented with texture using crumpled tissue paper, emphasized emerging forms with oil pastel, or drew new lines connecting shapes across the composition.

Students in the Cultivating Community art Matrix added broad fields of color inspired by Logan’s visual palette, experimented with pulling paint using non-traditional palette tools, and helped prepare and wrap the panels for display.

Advanced School (middle school) students added the final layer. Returning to intuitively drawn lines, they mirrored the lines made by the Primary students at the beginning of the piece, bringing the work full circle and offering a reminder of the importance of creating art with joy and levity.

The finished piece can also be seen as a metaphor for a Logan student’s journey over time. Through experimentation, relationships, connections, accumulated experiences, and the influence of many people, early marks are not erased as new ones are added.

Whether they are obscured or remain visible, each one becomes part of the layers and complexity of a student’s identity.

So, is the piece finished? Or is it still on the journey to becoming? It's open-ended.