Mineola Middle School art students’ holiday doors to be placed downtown

By Phil Major
publisher@wood.cm
Posted 12/19/24

Students in Heather Crain’s eighth grade advanced art class at Mineola Middle School are preparing holiday doors for display in the downtown area.

The 10 students each submitted a design …

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Mineola Middle School art students’ holiday doors to be placed downtown

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Students in Heather Crain’s eighth grade advanced art class at Mineola Middle School are preparing holiday doors for display in the downtown area.

The 10 students each submitted a design for one side of the door. Then faculty members voted on their favorites, and the top two designs advanced to the project stage.

Olivia Thompson chose a traditional scene of what Christmas might look like at home, while Harper Harris went with Olaf from the “Frozen” Disney movie, hovering over a cup of hot coca and marshmallows.

The page-size designs then had to be transferred onto each side of the full-size wooden door.

They were outlined in pencil, and then each of the 10 students in two 5-member teams took turns painting the scenes.

The doors will be headed to downtown Mineola where they will serve as part of Wood County Walls, on display through the holidays for selfie photos.

The students were responsible for all the work from start to finish, priming, prepping, mixing the paint colors, and of course, daily cleanup at the end of the art period.

They also got an assist with construction of a “boot,” so the door could be free-standing while students worked on it.

The middle school door will be installed at Iron Horse Square Park, planned for this week.

A frame, built by Robbie Ballard, will allow the door to be changed out to match future themes of the park, which houses the Harry Meredith mini-train.

Future doors by other groups are also planned for the Artist Alley, which runs between S. Pacific and S. Line Streets, and at other locations.

It will be known as the Adoorable Collection.