Perry’s Sculpture I classes kicked off their first annual “Giving Trees” event. Throughout the spirit week, students can receive gifts from “hands” of the trees created by sculpture students through a process called “tape-casting”. Sculpture teacher Sharon Biemond claims, “The idea is to brighten someone’s day with a gift of kindness and compassion.”

Though this a new project that the Sculpture I classes are undertaking, there is hope the “Giving Trees” will garner enough success to become an annual event. “Our hope for this project,” Biemond shares, “is to demonstrate how art can be a vehicle for acts of kindness and compassion.”

The “Giving Trees” are a creative way for students here at Perry to help make a peer’s day brighter, and are to be seen and respected as works of art.

With the guidance and help of Mrs. Biemond, this project has the capability to do amazing things for the student body during this season of giving.