The Elysian Charter School Art Show featuring the sixth grade, along with the middle school Painting and Drawing Seminar, is being displayed at City Hall throughout the month of June.  Throughout the first semester, sixth graders completed "The Sketchbook Project" where they were introduced to new artists, illustrators, techniques, materials, and concepts.  Each student maintained a personal sketchbook practicing these concepts.  At the beginning of the second semester, students met one-on-one with their art teacher to select two ideas that they wanted to develop into larger personal pieces.  They worked for the remainder of the semester on developing their original ideas from sketches to final show pieces.  They had in depth discussions about their artwork, eventually forming artist statements for each piece describing their design, construction, and thought process throughout.