'Evening With The Arts' Entertains Edgewood Students, Families, Friends
'Evening With The Arts' Entertains Edgewood Students, Families, Friends
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David Slone-dslone@timesuniononline.com
'Evening With The Arts' Entertains Edgewood Students, Families, FriendsHundreds of Edgewood Middle School students, families and friends shared an "Evening with the Arts" Tuesday night.
The fifth annual event was held throughout the entire school, and included displays from the art, industrial technology, music and family and consumer science departments.
Sherri Johnson's advanced art students demonstrated various techniques such as shading, silk painting, sponge spot & dot, human figure drawing, fused glass and more. For a donation of $1 to the Kailey Zehr Scholarship Fund, anyone could get their face painted. Zehr was an EMS student who died.Eighth-grader Jhovana Cervantes demonstrated shading.
"It's fun because if you don't like to mix in colors, you can just use a pencil anytime. You can draw anything at anytime," she said.
Being her first year at an "Evening with the Arts," Cervantes was impressed.
"I really like it," she said. "It's a great experience for me as an eighth-grader and being my last year here at Edgewood."
At the conclusion of every class, every EMS art student is required to select one or more pieces of their work to be displayed. The art last night was displayed in the hallways, library, gym and common areas.
In the library was the EMS Sign Language Club. They signed a song, taught basic sign language and handed out informational packets.
Dan Beam directed the choirs for a performance in the commons. Singers included the mixed chorus, girls chorus, girls ensemble and boys chorus.
Eighth-grader Brett Anson sang in the couples singing group. He said, "I was nervous at first, but it was fun. I liked it. I was nervous being in front of the people I had not been in front of before. It was fun being with the girls."
Some of the songs the choir sang included "Gloria Alleluia," "You Raise Me Up," "For All We Know" and "Route 66".
Students from Nick Walenga's industrial technology class created a track in the gym to race cars they made. Rockets also were shot off in the parking lot, and the storage building students helped construct was on display.
"It's cool to see all the different exhibits and everything," said Trevor Mellott, eighth grade, of "Evening with the Arts."
Mellott was one of the students helping launch rockets and testing the strength of bridges students built.
"It's really cool. It's nice to see what everyone has done throughout the year," Mellott said of the event.
Eighth-grader Ian Smith was giving tours of the storage building. He said he helped put the shelving unit up, put up a side wall, worked on a corner piece and helped with sideboards and panels.
"It was very fun, challenging. It was a lot of fun," Smith said.
Edith Rohrer's family and consumer sciences classes had several displays in the gym.
By donating $1 to the Kailey Zehr Scholarship Fund, participants could take part in the cake walk. Winner of each round of the cake walk won a cake baked and decorated by one of Rohrer's students.
Eighth-grader Lucas Thomas made a chocolate cake. He said icing it was the most fun.
"It took more creativity skills," he said.
Scott Flannery, eighth-grade, baked a lemon cake.
"I think it's amazing what skills people have," he said of the night's activities.
"I like to see all the things my classmates have made," said Thomas. "I was surprised to see some of my classmates were such good artists and good at making things."
FACS II Life class student Gabrielle Flannery said, "I think it's really fun that everyone can see each other's talents."
Also displayed in the FACS area was a display of students' creative button sewing, pillowcases, pillows and beach bag projects. The pillowcases will be donated to the Beaman Home.
Posters hung up in the area showed how much sugar someone would consume if they ate certain foods.
The jazz band, directed by Joe Peloza, performed early in the evening in the commons. The band performed "Blues Machine," "Theme from Shaft" and "Alright, Okay, You Win".
Eighth-grade student Courtney Etchison was the winner of the program dover design contest. She received a $25 gift certificate.
