LAKEVILLE — Sixth grade students at Freetown-Lakeville Middle School have completed a series of large-scale collages in honor of retiring librarian Pamela Dellarocco, who will conclude her career at the end of this school year after more than 20 years.

With support from a grant awarded by the Freetown Cultural Council, approximately 40 students worked in small groups to create nine original collages that will be displayed in the school library. The project was organized and led by art teacher Christy DeWitt George.

“Mrs. Dellarocco has spent over two decades sharing her passion for reading and inspiring students to do the same,” said DeWitt George.

Knowing that the longtime librarian has a love for the outdoors, students chose animals, insects and birds as the central themes for their artwork. Each group of four to six students created “paintings with paper” by tearing upcycled magazines into tiny pieces and gluing them to form colorful, textured images.

The completed collages are now hanging in the school library as a lasting tribute to Dellarocco’s impact on generations of students.

“My students are very proud of their accomplishment, as they should be,” DeWitt said. “They worked hard and took the whole process very seriously.”