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  • Allegra Boverman/Gloucester Daily Times. Zachary Lee, an Essex Elementary School second grader, gets nice and messy learning how to throw a small pot on a wheel, assisted by Shana Holub of Cape Ann Art Haven during the fourth annual Messy Art Night at the school on Friday evening. The Essex Elementary School PTO sponsored the event, which featured about 14 local artists and the staffs of Art Haven, Cogswell Grant and the Essex Shipbuilding Museum.

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  • Allegra Boverman/Gloucester Daily Times The "paint your own folk art boxes" table, presented by Cogswell's Grant, was a popular spot to get messy and creative during the fourth annual Messy Art Night at Essex Elementary School school on Friday evening. The home and museum has over 148 boxes on site and there is a special tour just of the boxes when the museum is open. The Essex Elementary School PTO sponsored Messy Art Night, which featured about 14 local artists and the staffs of Art Haven, Cogswell Grant and the Essex Shipbuilding Museum. Allegra Boverman/Gloucester Daily Times

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  • Allegra Boverman/Gloucester Daily Times Zachary Lee, an Essex Elementary School second-grader, gets nice and messy learning how to throw a small pot on a wheel, assisted by Shana Holub of Cape Ann Art Haven during the fourth annual Messy Art Night at EssexElementary School on Friday evening. The Essex Elementary School PTO sponsored the event, which featured about 14 local artists and the staffs of Art Haven, Cogswell Grant and the Essex Shipbuilding Museum. Allegra Boverman/Gloucester Daily Times

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  • Allegra Boverman/Gloucester Daily Times. The palette of acrylic paints in use at the still life painting table hosted by oil painter Kristen Walker of Essex during the fourth annual Messy Art Night at the school on Friday evening. The home and museum has over 148 boxes on site and there is a special tour just of the boxes when the museum is open. The Essex Elementary School PTO sponsored Messy Art Night, which featured about 14 local artists and the staffs of Art Haven, Cogswell Grant and the Essex Shipbuilding Museum.

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  • Allegra Boverman/Gloucester Daily Times. Kaiden McKeney, right, a kindergartener at Essex Elementary School, and his cousin Charlie Hultgren, a first grader from Lynn, work together at the monoprint table presented by Helen Tory, a printmaker from Essex who also works at the Essex Art Center in Lawrence, during the fourth annual Messy Art Night at the school on Friday evening. The Essex Elementary School PTO sponsored the event, which featured about 14 local artists and staffs of Art Haven, Cogswell Grant and the Essex Shipbuilding Museum.

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  • Kara Glynos, an Essex Elementary School fifth-grader, shows off her dirty hands created during the fourth annual Messy Art Night.

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  • Allegra Boverman/Gloucester Daily Times. From left are Essex Elementary School kindergarteners Avery Dott, Thomas Williams and Becca Briggs. They were busy creating art using just paint, water and gravity at a table presented by artist Kathleen McHugh of Essex during the fourth annual Messy Art Night at the school on Friday evening. The home and museum has over 148 boxes on site and there is a special tour just of the boxes when the museum is open. The Essex Elementary School PTO sponsored Messy Art Night, which featured about 14 local artists and the staffs of Art Haven, Cogswell Grant and the Essex Shipbuilding Museum.

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  • Kaiden McKeney, left, a kindergartener at Essex Elementary School, and his cousin, Charlie Hultgren, a first-grader from Lynn, work together at the monoprint table presented by Helen Tory, a printmaker from Essex and of the Essex Art Center in Lawrence.

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February 4, 2013

Bring in the art, bring in the mess

By Allegra Boverman Staff Writer

Hands covered in paint and clay and tables splattered in inks and glue mixed loudly with swarms of exuberant local children hunkered down around tables creating all manner of art on Friday evening during the fourth annual Messy Art Night at Essex Elementary School.

The open spaces in the cafeteria and in the hallways grew smaller and smaller as more and more art was laid out to dry on bleachers, floors and walls, the level of excited chatter and the hum of creativity rising and rising.

From fish prints and monoprints to Valentine’s bags and ink splatter drawings to still life painting, to pottery and sketching, there were also lines of kids waiting impatiently to try out a new medium.

Occasionally there were mad dashes to the restrooms to clean up. And members of the school’s Green Team were on hand to help recycle, compost and dispose of any discarded items safely and cleanly, too.

The Essex Elementary School PTO sponsored the event, which featured about 14 local artists, including the staffs of Cape Ann Art Haven, Cogswell Grant and the Essex Shipbuilding Museum.

Allegra Boverman is the chief photographer and a staff writer for the Gloucester Daily Times. She can be reached at 978-283-7000 x3448 and at aboverman@gloucestertimes.com

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