The Sam Francis Gallery at

Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences Presents

elevate Elevate ELEVATE!

A Middle School Winter Project

Exhibition Duration: Jan. 15-28, 2026 (Please make a reservation by clicking here.)

This Middle School art exhibition, elevate Elevate ELEVATE!, brings together student work from Ceramics, Photography and Studio Art classes around a shared theme that asks students to look upward, outward and inward. Introduced at the start of the school year and revisited again at the beginning of the new year, elevate Elevate ELEVATE! serves as both a creative prompt and a reminder to uplift one another, to amplify personal voices and to imagine ideas that move beyond limitations.

Across all three disciplines, students interpreted “elevate” through both metaphor and form. Ceramic artists created sculptural works that explore symbols of rising and growth, incorporating emblems such as wings, ladders and ascending structures. Photography students approached the theme through a more experimental lens, creating cyanotype works that feature suspended cast silhouettes printed onto fabric. By placing their own bodies into the work, students explored ideas of presence and elevation—both literal and emotional. Studio Art students translated “elevate” into kinetic and conceptual form by working directly on kites. These works extend beyond the wall, embodying the idea of elevation as something active and expansive. Whether imagined soaring in the sky or displayed in space, the kites symbolize students’ ideas taking flight—rising above, moving forward and reaching beyond.

Elevate is not only a theme, but a shared intention—one that encourages students to lift their voices, support one another and approach their creative practice with confidence and imagination.