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Bluebag Media
South students
work on display for Youth Art Month
GREENVILLE – South Intermediate fifth- and sixth-graders are learning
there’s more to art than meets the eye.
Interpretation, evaluation and opinion play an important role in
looking at art, no matter the medium, says teacher Julie Brewer.
Five South students were recently honored for their art and expressions
of art in both painting and written essay during receptions held in
Columbus for Youth Art Month, which happens to be the month of March.
Sixth-grader Seth Shaffer’s artwork is part of the 36th Annual Young
People’s Art Exhibit, while fellow sixth-grader Chloe Good’s painting
was selected to be part of the 2016 Youth Art Month Exhibit.
Saige Fellers, also a sixth-grader learned she earned a 1st place award
in the Art Criticism Essay Contest, with fifth-graders Nolan Ellis and
Hanna York both placing third in the essay contest.
Three of the students traveled with family members and Brewer to attend
receptions in Columbus on March 5.
Ellis, 11, said he was “pretty excited” upon learning his essay had
been selected for an award. He wrote an opinion piece on El Anatsui’s
piece titled Fresh and Fading Memories – which depicts a building
covered with metal bottle caps. El Anatusi is an artist from Ghana.
What did Ellis think about this contemporary piece of art?
“I thought it meant he was losing some of his memories from his other
art works and making new memories while completing his new works,”
Ellis said...
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