Arts in Action at Fairfield Woods: Broad brush approach to creativity

Hartley Curran, 12, helps her sixth-grade classmate Lauren Tangney, 12, with a weaving project during the 11th Bi-Annual Arts in Action program at Fairfield Woods Middle School on May 3. Weaving was one of about 50 different artistic activities that students were able to choose from during the day-long event. Photo: Meg Barone

Julia Kim, 11, a Fairfield Woods Middle School sixth-grader, decorated a cake as one of her activities in the Arts in Action program Photo: Meg Barone

Fairfield Woods Middle School students in a music improvization workshop, one of the many offerings during the day-long Arts in Action event on May 3, where Clayton Eles, standing far right, a Stamford school teacher and musician, led them in creating compositions, Photo: Meg Barone

Samantha Miller, 14, a Fairfield Woods Middle School eighth-grader, participated in a flower pounding workshop where students used real blossoms, pressing them against a piece of fabric and then pounding the color from the flowers to the fabric to create works of art. Photo: Genevieve Reilly

Kayla Johnson, left, 13; Hannah Jagoe, 14, and Heather Allen, 13, back to camera, all eighth-graders, decorate cookies in a cookie-baking session during Arts in Action on May 3 at Fairfield Woods Middle School. Photo: Meg Barone

Maxwell Ludlow, 12, a seventh-grader, concentrates on cupcake decorating during Arts in Action at Fairfield Woods Middle School. "It's something that I've liked since I was really young," he said Photo: Meg Barone

Grace Kais, 13, a Fairfield Woods Middle School eighth-grader, tie dyed her first T-shirt during the May 3 Arts in Action program at the school. Photo: Meg Barone