Through her life-size, stuffed, printed, and painted fabric installations, artist Kay Healy explores real stories and memories. These appear in the form of figures, household objects, and interior spaces. Trained as a printmaker, Healy works in a broad range of media. Before creating her compositions, Healy conducts interviews with senior citizens, Southeast Asian refugees, teens, the general public, and more. She makes sketches, translates them into life-size drawings, then transfers the drawings onto silkscreens, which are printed onto fabric.
Art teachers encourage a love of nature through various lessons using a STEAM approach, unusual materials, visits to an aquarium and an alpaca farm, and more. Students illustrate fantastical reimaginings of nature photographs; demonstrate a knowledge of color and value blending with bilateral insect drawings; team with a botanical preserve to create a butterfly mural installation; collaborate on a large-scale ceramic school garden; and more.
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