Students Display Art at Museum

Thirteen original artworks from an art class at Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda, Md. are on display at the National Museum of Health and Medicine as part of the museum's newest exhibit "eMotion Pictures: An Exhibition of Orthopaedics in Art."

The exhibit is a traveling art show that features work by artists whose lives have been touched by an orthopaedic condition and the physicians who treat them. The exhibit will remain at the museum through Aug. 15, 2002. Twelve skeleton drawings and three drawings of skulls were loaned to the museum by the high school students.

"The assignment was for the students to become acquainted with a new drawing tool," said Kathleen Fletcher, a studio art teacher at Walter Johnson High School.The tool the students were becoming familiarized with was a bamboo pen. Students were also faced with the challenge of working in full size.

While all the students modeled their drawings after the same skeleton, each drawing is different based on the students' choice of technique and coloration.