Morgan’s Fine Arts Show was held last night and it was wonderful! The students are so talented and creative! They have great leaders to show them the way. Jenna Rahrig (Art teacher) and Greg Thatcher (Music teacher) guided students to create fantastic art projects and an entertaining musical. The theme was dental hygeine, which was displayed through the musical and several sculputres throughout the building. It was obvious that Jenna and Greg put a lot of work into making the evening such a success and to show off all the talent at Morgan!
The art projects ranged from small to large sculptures, clay, oil pastels, watercolor, lego-mation movies and iExpress posters. Many of the projects were inspired by themes from famous artists and several incorporated a variety of technology. They utilized digital cameras with tri-pods and iMovie to create the videos. There were iExpress posters that were created with the Elmo and a digital camera. The students chose an activity or emotion (iSing, iPaint, iConfused etc). Digital pictures were taken of students portraying that action then projected with the Elmo and traced to be larger then life! The posters were inspired by the iPod commercials seen on TV. Even the clay sculptures utilized technology by being fired in a computerized kiln.
Visitors also had the opportunity to get their pictures taken with their faces as part of famous paintings! The Elmo was used to blow up pictures of famous paintings. The paintings were traced onto fabric and painted to look like the originals. The faces were cut out so people could put their own faces in the paintings instead!
The entire Fine Arts production showcased the great talent that runs through the halls of Morgan Elementary. Technology played an important role as well. It is always amazing to me how much technology can be incorporated into every subject!
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