And the winners are . . .

Design Ad Competition !!

Congratulations to the following winners:

Mary V. Stabler, 1st place overall winner for grades 4th - 6th (winner of $100 savings bond)

and winner of the Prattville Progress Newspaper ad

Jackson Byrd, 2nd place overall winner grades 7th - 9th (winner of $75 savings bond)

and winner for Whitfield Foods Inc. ad

The following students won the advertisers choice award for their ads:

Katie Windham, winning ad for Bedzzz Express

Allie Ramsey, winning ad for Troy University Montgomery

Brian Roth, honorable mention for Montgomery Advertiser

Abbie Grace Sims, honorable mention for Freewill Missionary Baptist Church

What a great year for our Middle School Art students ! I am so proud of all of you !!

6th grade finalists for the DAR Constitution Week Poster Design Competition:

These top finalists will now go on to compete in the city-wide competition ! Good Luck to the following students:

Carolyn Albritton, Sydney Bassett, Sophie Burks, Allie Dillard, Anna Esco, Mary Carmen Haynes, McAuley Parker, J. Payne, Allie Ramsey and Anthony Singleton

The Montgomery Advertiser and DAR will be sending invitations with the specific times and locations for the awards ceremonies for these events. The dates are listed in my earlier post ! Additional winners will be announced for the DAR Poster Contest and I will let you know who you are !!

I am working on attaching separate files with images for both competitions. I will let you know when I have posted and where to find them !

save the dates !!!

Upcoming Events that our Middle School Art students are participating !!

(No winners have been announced, but here are some dates that you might want to be aware of.)

6th grade: DAR Constitution Week Poster Contest

The top 10 posters from our school will be display in Goodwyn Hall, AUM campus from October 1-24 and the awards ceremony will be held on Sunday, October 24 in the Goodwyn Hall Auditiorium. (time has not been announced)

7th grade: Montgomery Humane Society "Howl-iday Card" Contest

October 9 at the annual Walk and Wag Festival held in Blount Cultural Park.

(time has not been announced)

6th-7th grades: Montgomery Advertiser Design Ad Competition

October 22 (time and location to be announced)

Last year the event was held at Davis Theater and dinner was held in an annex room adjacent to the Theater.

Upcoming competitions:

6th grade will be designing posters for the Montgomery Lions Club. The contest theme is "Vision of Peace". The contest allows students to share their unique image of peace with others, so that we may all have greater tolerance and international understanding. Poster size will be 14" x 20".

7th grade will be working on designs for the Alabama Recycling Coalition, America Recycles Day T-shirt. We will even use (8 1/2" x 11") Recycled paper to turn in our designs !!

Students in both grades are always welcome to research and brainstorm their concepts with you at home !!

week of September 20-25

Both 6th and 7th grades have designed graphic advertisements for six Montgomery businesses. The Design Ad Competition is sponsored by the Montgomery Advertiser. Each of the businesses will select a class winner and overall winner for their company ad. There will also be 1st, 2nd and 3rd place overall winners for the 4th-6th grade division, 7th-9th grade division and 10th-12th grade divisions. I will announce winners as soon as the Montgomery Advertiser has completed the judging process !! The winners will be invited to an Awards Banquet at the Davis Theater. More info to come !!

I will send a post later this week with all the dates, times and locations for each of the Design Competitions in which we are participating.

6th grade

This week we will continue to design and complete our posters for the DAR Constitution Poster Contest. Ten posters will be selected from our 6th grade, and will be displayed in Goodwyn Hall at AUM. Overall winners will be selected from Montgomery County Public and Private schools. More info to come regarding awards, dates and times of Awards Ceremony.

Our next project will be related to the Art Style of Pop Art. We will look at some of the works by Andy Warhol and Jim Dine. We will do several drawings of common, everyday objects (Coca Cola bottles, a Campbell's soup can and tools). Each student will then create a silhouette drawing of themself and create two different pieces of art, as a repetition pattern and a positive / negative expression.

7th grade

Last week students completed their artwork for the Montgomery Humane Society "Howl-iday Card" Contest. The theme was "Home for the Holidays". Students were to show pets being adopted into loving environments. The Humane Society will select winners and this group of students will be invited to an Awards Ceremony at the annual Walk and Wag event at Alabama Shakespeare Festival.

This week we will spend a few days focusing on blind contour drawing and one point perspectives. We will be using our sketchbooks to practice these techniques before we begin the Room with a View project. Students will design a window using drafting tools, incorporate a table, chair and items on the table in perspective. A pattern must also be incorporated somewhere in the overall design. We will use paint and colored pencil to complete our artwork.

"In Art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine."

Ralph Waldo Emerson