Janet Austin Art Chicago Area Artist
 
 

The Secret Garden

Secret Garden

2007, The Secret Garden
Highland Park High School, Highland Park, IL
Handmade ceramic stoneware
and commercial tiles
9 panels from 1' x 1.5' to 3' x 5'

The Secret Garden was produced with special needs students during a three month residency with artist, Janet Austin, as a culminating project for Highland Park High School's biennial celebration "Focus on the Arts." These students used unique handmade tiles and commercial mosaic tiles to create colorful bugs and flowers in an outdoor courtyard with help from Ceramic 1 and Art Club students of Alicia Landes, art teacher. 

Bug Mosaic
Blue Butterfly Mosaic
Sunflower Mosaic
Moth Mosaic
Cicada Mosaic
2 Butterflies Mosaic
Caterpillar Mosaic