XPI Student Showcase
Welcome to Xpress Plugged In, our new online gallery of student expressions. Please follow the submission instructions CAREFULLY. New work will be posted every Monday.
-- Nancy Green, editor of XPI
Selections for the Week of 3/07/2011
Spotlight on Admiral Farragut Academy,
St. Petersburg
Ukulele Transformations
(Part Two)
This project was inspired by the "Yugo Next" car transformation project in Manhattan and the "Guitarmania!" public art fundraiser in Cleveland. Students were each given a full-size ukulele template and asked to transform their instrument into something different. The primary rule was that the students had to actually transform the physical shape of their ukulele; they couldn't just "decorate" it. Each student used a variety of media, including papier-mache, metal, wood, wire, cardboard, clay, plastic, copper foil and acrylic paint.
-- Brad Rose, art instructor
Mixed media ukuleles by students at Admiral Farragut Academy, St. Petersburg
Hope, Ariel Siler, 11th grade
Mengyu's Swan, Ariel Zhang, 11th grade
Legends, Allyson Puckett, ninth grade
TR + ALT + F4, Adolfo Danguillecourt, 12th grade
In Danger, Kristi Wrinkle, 12th grade
Scorpion with Circles, Dimitry Snyder, 10th grade