By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism.
Students participate in Focus on Fine Crafts Program
west school 1.JPG
Sixth-grade students Rosa Payne, left, and Caitlyn Lawrence, right, create clay masks.
DeKalb West Middle School students, participated in the Friends of the Appalachian Center for Craft of Tennessee’s (FACCT’s) Focus on Fine Craft Program in Smithville,TN on May 9th, 2011. Students created masterpieces in three different art classes: ceramic masks, Itajime-Japanese fabric dying, and photography. Janet England, the students social studies teacher, teaches the students the importance of the crafts studied at the Craft Center in relation to the cultures they study in class.