Special education teachers Karen Koch and Aimee Grimm and art teacher Mary Gurley conducted a year-long project with their students that involved sketching trips to the Charles E. Burchfield Nature and Art Center (an independent organization in West Seneca, a suburb of Buffalo), and tours of Burchfield Penney Art Center. The curriculum guide Charles E. Burchfield: Art and Nature was also used as a reference. The resulting projects included Burchfield inspired nature sketchbooks, acrylic and watercolor paintings, monoprints and a hand-bound wallpaper book.