LONGMONT — Joan Munn’s favorite piece at the annual St. Vrain Valley School District Art Show is a no-brainer.

“Why my granddaughter’s, of course,” she said, pointing to a colored pencil sketch of a rose created by Sunset Middle School eighth-grader Amanda Barton.

Artwork from all the public and charter schools in the district will be on display through Friday at the former J.C. Penney store at Twin Peaks Mall.

“The district art show offers St. Vrain students of all ages an opportunity to showcase their talents,” said Shari Wilson, a district spokeswoman.

The show features both traditional and abstract work in an array of art media.

Molly Finnegan and Alyssa Chan from Skyline High School’s Art Club shredded phone books and transformed them into a wearable skirt and shirt — their own style of “Green Fashion,” the name of the project.

Niwot High senior Courtney Wells morphed and mangled 10 vinyl records, creating an installation of dynamic colors simply titled “Record Project.”

Other exhibits were a team effort.

Elizabeth Nicholson’s art classes at Westview Middle School created modern versions of Victorian-era memory jars by gluing personal artifacts to glass jars and coating them with gold or silver acrylic paint. Seventh-grader Kassidy Schmidt’s jar included a cell phone, a nail polish bottle, a toy bicycle and a lipstick case — a scrapbook of her young life.

Flagstaff Academy involved all grades on its themed art history project. The art features ranged from kindergartners’ cave drawings on rough, brown paper to the eighth-graders’ aboriginal bark paintings on wood panels.

District administrators, principals and art teachers will judge the pieces, and artists will receive certificates for their work.

An open house is scheduled for 5 to 6:30 p.m. tonight. There is no admission cost for the show.

Magdalena Wegrzyn can be reached at 303-684-5274 or mwegrzyn@times-call.com.