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Big Art Day has become a Texas Art Education Association (TAEA) tradition, and the art educators in Cedar Hill ISD decided that there was nobody better to host it than Bessie Coleman Middle School Art Teacher Virgie Andrews to host it.

“It was great – we had elementary and middle school scholars,” Andrews said. “Last year was a Pancake and Cereal Theme. This year, it was National Oreo and National Cheesecake days.”

The art that the scholars produced was every bit as sweet as the topics they were emulating. They spent the first two months of the year working on it.

Next year, the theme will shift from the culinary to the cultural – a 1990s Rewind Theme.

Andrews is in her third year teaching at BCMS – she’s now teaching soon-to-be graduates who were new to the campus when she started.

A former parent volunteer turned teacher in her native Ohio, Andrews chose Texas over the Buckeye State after three feet of snow blanketed her home state, only to be followed by an ice storm.