About the artist: Tina Oberg is an art teacher at Hamilton Holmes Middle School in King William. She loves animals and volunteers her time with the Humane Society, fostering stray dogs and cats. As part of the Schools of Shad project, her seventh grade students made paper mache shad sculptures (sponsored by a grant from the Virginia Endowment for the Arts). These wonderful sculptures were the centerpiece for ShadFest at HHMS in the spring of 2004.

Description: One side of the shad is painted with cats, the other with dogs. The base is decorated with delightful shad sculptures including a shad sleeping on top of a dog house, shad lounging on a sofa, a shad catching a Frizbee in its mouth, a shad playing with a ball of yarn and a bowl of shad in a food dish.