Hawthorne Home & School Association
Neighborhood SignThe Hawthorne Neighborhood Association was awarded a grant to help fund a sign at school that can be used by the neighborhood and the school as a message board for activities and events. The students will be working on the mosaic artwork for the project. We will need volunteers for building labor.
Where we areJulie Olsen has been working with a group from the neighborhood to come up with a sign design that involved all the students and will also meet all rules of the city and the school district. The sign sits between the trees in the grass area between the parking lot and the sidewalk on Lexington Ave. The plans have changed several times but we are pretty set on our final proposal. There are many ways you can be a part of this projectClassroom Volunteers: We will need volunteers to work with the younger children during their art classes to create individual mosaic projects and group mosaic panels which will be part of the sign. This will probably be from between 12:00 and 2:00 pm but we may have morning times as well.Material Donations: We also need plates , crockery , tiles, etc. for creating the mosaics. If there is a special plate or object with a story behind it please include the story on a card taped to the plate. While we will be breaking up most plates for mosaic purposes , please note if you would like the piece to try to be incorporated as a whole. Time Donations: We will need community members to help install the mosaic tiles, grout, and seal the structure after school and on a weekend. (We may need some help donating materials for the sign and building .) Sign Dedication: Finally we will need help planning a sign dedication celebration when it is complete. Guest Speakers/ neighborhood Historians/ Photos of neighborhood over time: We would like to to collect neighborhood stories as a way to celebrate the 50th. We will need help locating guest speakers who students might interview , photographs and any “realia” from Hawthorne School “Then and Now” so we can incorporate some neighborhood history in this year’s writing and art projects. We look forward to your support and participation in this school/ community art project and year of celebration. Feel free to contact Julie Olsen at 204-2529 (art room) I will get links to more of the process here as well as some of the artwork we are working from. Mosaic Art slideshow on Flickr Nick Engelbert's Grandview is conveniently located 1/2 mile west of Hollandale, Wisconsin on Highway 39, between Mineral Point and New Glarus
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