Sophomore Amy Billsberry sculpted a human sized sarcophagus in art teacher Jelena Robbins’ class this week. 

“I think designing the structure is fun,” Billsberry said. “Painting is the funner part though.” 

Billsberry built the sarcophagus using supplies found in many homes.

“I built it entirely from scratch,” Billsberry said. “I used mostly cardboard, hot glue, paint and tissue paper.” 

Robbins said that the original assignment was to create a modest sarcophagus. 

“Not everybody was thrilled about that, so I let them do anything that was ancient Egyptian,” Robbins said. “They decided that they were going to make the items much larger than life.” 

There was a lesson to go with the assignment, but Billsberry said she decided to go beyond. 

“We had a small lesson on the history of pyramids and sarcophaguses, but I did most of my own research,” Billsberry said. 

Robbins said she had to move the due date due to the enthusiasm of her students.

“They’ve had about two and a half weeks to finish it,” Robbins said. “I’ve given them a bit of extra time because I didn’t realize how excited they were going to be about it.” 

Robbins said she wants her students to be able to enter their projects into contests.

“Hopefully everything will be done by this Friday, so they can enter it into all the shows and display what they’ve been working on,” Robbins said. 

By Keeley Sorgenfrei