Wellington School students learn about agriculture, art

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VEGGIE ART — Wellington Elementary School third-graders Mackenzie Joslyn, back, and Meysha Dahlk work on a piece of art inspired by natural resources during a recent “Agricultural Arts Project” at the school.
    Third grade students at Wellington School in Monticello took part recently in the Southern Aroostook Soil and Water Conservation District’s “Agricultural Arts Project.” The project, funded through the Maine Agriculture in the Classroom as a result of the Maine Agricultural Specialty License Plate, allows students within the district to create art influenced by the natural resources surrounding them.
    “The project’s goal is to connect students to the agricultural and forested landscape they live in while expressing their experiences in visual form, either by descriptive writing or drawing,” said Angie Wotton of the Southern Aroostook Soil and Water Conservation District.
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HELPING HAND — Frank Sullivan gives a helping hand to Wellington School third-graders Cooper Foster and Devin Folsom during an “Agricultural Arts Project.”
    Wellington students chose vegetables from their school garden before an art class with local artist Frank Sullivan and made charcoal drawings. Other classes at schools throughout southern Aroostook will also participate in the grant project.