Young artists at Worcester Prep take part in international project
Worcester Prep Lower School art teacher Rebecca Tittermary’s third-, fourth- and fifth-grade students recently participated in the 4th Annual Artist Trading Card Swap organized through Minnesota resident Nic Hahn’s www.MiniMatisse.blogspot.com.
Students created miniature pieces of art on 2.5-by-3.5-inch cards using mediums such as stamping, painting, drawing and collage. The back of each card contains information about the artist, school and country. Tittermary collected all the newly designed WPS cards and sent them to Minnesota where Hahn divided and redistributed the trading cards to different schools around the world. The cards were also shared on various social media outlets.
A total of 122 schools participated this year, including 94 nationally and 28 internationally, creating a total of 13,593 cards. Participating countries included Italy, Spain, Vietnam, Morocco, Canada, Belgium, Thailand, Australia, Slovakia and Japan. The one-of-a-kind trading cards are an art form that started more than 20 years ago in Europe. It began with artists trading their work and has trickled into schools to reach young students, and inspire creativity and global connection with peers through the arts.
