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lockportlegend.com life & arts<br />
the Lockport Legend | November 15, 2018 | 17<br />
Twenty students from the Taft School Art Club currently have their artwork on display at<br />
the Lockport Township Building. Photo submitted<br />
Student masterpieces on<br />
display at Township building<br />
Jacquelyn Schlabach<br />
Assistant Editor<br />
In an effort to support and<br />
provide resources to every<br />
resident, regardless of age,<br />
the Lockport Township<br />
Government has extended<br />
a warm welcome to local<br />
students to display their creative<br />
works of art on one of<br />
the walls inside the building.<br />
“I think it just helps support<br />
our students and helps<br />
build their confidence to<br />
see people looking at their<br />
art, and I think that’s what<br />
the Township has to do,”<br />
Lockport Township Supervisor<br />
Ron Alberico said. “We<br />
work a lot with our seniors<br />
and try to give them something<br />
to do, we have to work<br />
with our youth and give<br />
them confidence.”<br />
It was Alberico’s idea to<br />
display the exhibit of children’s<br />
art on the first floor<br />
of the building at the end of<br />
last school year, and reached<br />
out to the part-time office assistant,<br />
Beverlee Alberico,<br />
who is also his sister-in-law,<br />
to help make his idea come<br />
to life.<br />
“He’d like to involve as<br />
many people in the Township<br />
as he can,” Beverlee<br />
said. “He realized that the<br />
children weren’t really represented<br />
in the township office<br />
building.”<br />
Beverlee made a list of<br />
different schools to reach out<br />
to and emailed them over the<br />
summer to see if they would<br />
be interested in having their<br />
student’s artwork displayed.<br />
Each school’s work is to<br />
be on display for a month<br />
throughout the school year.<br />
The first school to respond<br />
and show interest in participating<br />
in the project was the<br />
Art Club at Taft School. The<br />
club was started this school<br />
year by Girl Scouts Troop<br />
71513 as part of their service<br />
project because Taft doesn’t<br />
have an art program in the<br />
curriculum.<br />
“Art provides an outlet for<br />
students to show their creativity,”<br />
the Art Club sponsor<br />
Julie Chesser said. “They all<br />
seem so happy while they’re<br />
doing the art and unfortunately,<br />
like I said, they don’t<br />
have that opportunity during<br />
the school day, so they finally<br />
have a chance to do art.”<br />
The first meeting was<br />
held at the end of September<br />
where nearly 60 of the approximately<br />
300 students in<br />
the school showed up. It was<br />
during the second meeting<br />
in October that the students<br />
created artwork to be selected<br />
for the display at the<br />
township building. The Girl<br />
Scouts and Chesser chose<br />
20 pieces that they thought<br />
stood out the most. The remaining<br />
pieces that weren’t<br />
selected are to be displayed<br />
at Taft School.<br />
The wall features a variety<br />
of colorful designs including<br />
sketches of people,<br />
rainbows, outdoor sceneries<br />
with trees and birds, and<br />
more. The students used<br />
crayons, colored pencils<br />
and markers to create their<br />
masterpieces.<br />
“I think it recognizes children’s<br />
ability and interest in<br />
art, and by putting a display<br />
up I know that when you do<br />
that a child is recognized for<br />
an ability and it reinforces<br />
their interest and creativity<br />
and really who knows where<br />
it may go if they’re recognized,”<br />
Beverlee said. “It encourages<br />
them to go further<br />
and be more creative.”<br />
Beverlee said she started<br />
off displaying only 20 pieces<br />
of artwork to see if it takes<br />
off to where more students<br />
are interested in participating.<br />
In the future, she said<br />
she would like to have high<br />
school students and senior<br />
citizens showcase their<br />
work, as well. During the<br />
summertime, she would like<br />
to have the seniors display<br />
their pieces.<br />
“The building is open our<br />
regular hours 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.<br />
every day, Monday through<br />
Friday,” Ron said. “Everybody’s<br />
welcome to come in<br />
at anytime and look at the art<br />
or anywhere in the building.<br />
We put this building together<br />
for our community.”<br />
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