Flowers For...

Sixth Graders looked at the recent project called "Flowers for Sick People" by local artist Tucker Nichols. During the pandemic, Nichols started inviting people to send him names of their ailing loved ones; he created paintings of flowers and sent them in the mail to the addressees collected. Simultaneously, he started a social media prompt "Flowers for..." where every day he would dedicate a flower painting to a person, issue, or idea. Students on campus worked in chalk pastel and others at home worked in their sketchbook to respond to the prompt "Flowers for..."