Chinook junior high art students' molas at Northern

This month, the guest artists at Montana State University-Northern's Office of Diversity Awareness and Multicultural Programs are students of the Junior High School Art Class at Chinook. The teacher is Whitney TopSky and the artists are Leo, Benjamin, Matthew, Lexi, Flint, Vladimir, Aspyn, Lane, Daniel, Sarah, Nikola, Levi and Sierra.

Molas are traditionally a textile art and are made with fabric. They originate from the Kuna tribe in Panama. TopSky had the students watch a video that introduced them to the beauty and craftsmanship that goes into the traditional molas. She then taught her junior high art class the process of making paper molas. Students chose their own animals to design with contrasting layers of paper.

The Northern's Office of Diversity Awareness and Multicultural Programs invites local and regional artists to exhibit their pieces, preferably those that have some link to multicultural themes. For more information, contact [email protected] or call 265-3589.