Some have misconceptions that art is created only by masters like Micheangelo or Picasso. But don’t tell that to the students who have art on display at The Art Mill in Millbrook.
“This is all so wonderful,” Millbrook special events coordinator Danae Morgan said. “The art the students made and on display is so great.”
The current show contains art from students at Stanhope Elmore High School and Prattville Christian Academy.
“The students from Stanhope Elmore were one of the first shows we had when we first opened,” Morgan said.
The space gives students a place to showcase their talent outside the hallways of school.
“It's awesome, it's wonderful,” Stanhope Elmore art teacher Delite Fedusenko said. “We are very happy to have this space available to showcase what the students are doing.”
The show has grown from about 30 pieces for the first to now nearly 60 pieces at the third annual event.
Stanhope Elmore students in Fedusenko’s Art I, II and III classes are on display. There are mixed media pieces, pen and ink, graphite and colored pencil drawings.
“This is a culmination of what we've been working on all year,” Fedusenko said.
First year art students were allowed to showcase one piece. They were a bit nervous being new to art and being compared to those with more skills and experience.
But with the show on the wall, the novices got just as much attention as everyone else.
SE ninth grader Lillian Fitzgerald and her classmates created texture monsters that are on display.
“They focused on how things look if you could touch them,” Fedusenko said. “They had to come up with different animal body parts and put them together to make a creature. They had to have different ears, nose, feet, legs, tails, and then color them bright to show the texture as much as they can.”
After seeing her piece hanging, Fitzgerald feels more confident about her abilities and how her art mixes with the more experienced students' works.
“I do like seeing it up on the wall,” Fitzgerald said. “It makes me feel proud to see it with the others.”
