16" x 20" - Acrylic and polymer clay on canvas -
Artist - Katherine Check
Inspired by - She is London by London from Willson school
Suggested Value: $150.00

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"I felt London's poem was so strong, independent, proud, and full of love. She took that feeling of love and joy and funneled it into her composition."

Katherine Check is an artist and licensed art educator in the State of Ohio. Formally trained in visual arts, with a concentration in sculpture at Cleveland State University. She has taught art in several Northeastern Ohio schools for 13 plus years. She is the founder of Flourishing Flamingo Arts, a production and education company that works with people to develop their own artistic skills in a non-judgmental environment that allows ALL people to feel successful and accomplished.

18"x 18" x 2" - Mosaic
Artist - Mark Yasenchack
Inspired by - Earth is Changing Around Us by the Artemus Ward Middle School Team
Suggested Value: $250.00

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"In college, I was a biology major and still have a deep connection to and understanding of the natural world around me. The earnest and concerned voices of young people in this poem are what moved me to choose the poem and the mission at its heart."

Mark Yasenchack thinks of the glazed tesserae as gemstones, their color bright and shiny against the flat muted surface of the unglazed field clay tiles. Often tight ordered patterns in the stamped texture are disrupted with the addition of random glazed details and dots. Experimentation with this process yields unique batches of tiles, their individuality unrepeatable. Currently, Yasenchack concentrates on shape as much as a surface embellishment of the tiles, each batch or collection a shape to find a special place for in a mosaic. The clay tesserae and tiles are combined with glass, stone, metal, and other found elements. He uses the direct method to piece together these mosaics.