Sixth-grade art classes created designs based on the work of Howardina Pindell.

Pindell is a Philadelphia-born artist and professor whose art has been featured in many landmark exhibitions and is displayed in permanent collections in museums around the world. 

She works with layers of texture and color, mostly using a circle shape to build up layers of contrasting medium. She encouraged the idea of “playing" with mediums that would resist and create texture in her work. 

Pindell often employs lengthy, metaphorical processes of destruction/reconstruction. She cuts canvases in strips and sews them back together, building up surfaces in elaborate stages. She paints or draws on sheets of paper, punches out dots from the paper using a paper hole punch, drops the dots onto her canvas, and finally squeegees paint through the “stencil” left in the paper from which she had punched the dots. (Source: www.howardenapindell.org)

Students were inspired by her unique style and had fun expressing their own artistry in the style of Pindell.