Class of 2021: Winter Paintings

As the days grow shorter and colder, the eighth grade students have been doing an artistic study of snowscapes.

Using acrylic paint and special textured linen-style paper, the class has been celebrating the season by learning new art skills to create beautiful imagery. It has been extraordinary to watch the students grow into this new level of artwork; just one painting can take more than two hours of focus! AND they have been learning these skills through the Zoom classroom!

Donna Blaser was raised in the beautiful Willamette Valley and spent her childhood creating art, horseback riding, climbing trees and enjoying every possible opportunity to head out on adventures. She holds a BA from the University of Oregon in Spanish and Latin American studies as well as a Bachelor of Fine Arts. She completed her Waldorf teacher training at the Micha-el Institute, and during those years of study while learning how to teach explosion-filled chemistry experiments, artistic botany lessons, and playful poetry writing games, she knew she’d found her calling! Donna began a teaching career at Cedarwood in 2001 and has taught every grade level at least once.

She loves the arts-based Waldorf curriculum, and can often be found in the hallways, smudged with paint, charcoal or glue from teaching a recent art project. She adores traveling; her most recent expedition was to backpack around Mt. Hood on the Timberline trail.