It’s Thursday night, five in the afternoon. Art students come rushing into the school and make their way up to art teacher Ms. Johnson’s room, where bronze colored costumes are waiting for them and piles of metallic makeup litter the tables. Tonight, they get to model as living statues, staying perfectly still for the students and teachers to marvel at.
Every year during Parent’s Night, the art teachers and students come together to create a night of art to help raise money to be able to produce the Art Annual, a book which showcases student art each year. They need to raise $2800 to be able to print the upcoming 2017 Art Annual.
“We have the wacky raffle and grants from the PTSO,” Johnson said, “but we like to pitch in as much as possible.”
The costumes may be uncomfortable, but the novelty of having people be startled by your appearance doesn’t wear off.
“I thought it was super fun, and I kept getting stared at,” senior Heather Kelly said, laughing.
Aside from the fantastic costumes, a new addition to the fundraiser came into the picture this year. Nicknamed the “Living Painting,” senior Melina Illinger was chosen to stand behind a cutout of a Mona Lisa painting done by Demi Omanovic and art teacher Ms. Dyson.
“Demi did the sketch first–the under painting,” Dyson said, “and I did the finishing touches. It was fun but weird seeing a giant, faceless Mona Lisa in the back of my classroom for a week.”
For more information on how to donate to the Art Annual, see Ms. Dyson or Ms. Johnson.
