Academics
Fine Arts
Creating Dye From Discards
Lower School art students worked with SAGE, Hockaday’s food provider, to salvage vegetable skins and peels for art projects.
Students cleaned and scraped avocado skins and onion peels that they will use to make natural dyes; the students will then dye skeins of yarn to use in their creations. This process teaches students about how to rethink about their natural world, and how to find use in materials that might have otherwise been discarded.
The Hockaday School
Within the private school community, The Hockaday School is an independent college-preparatory day school for girls from grades PK–12 located in Dallas, Texas. Students realize their limitless potential through challenging academic curricula, arts, athletics, and extracurricular programs so that they are inspired to lead lives of purpose and impact.