Smith MS students win national art awards

March 10, 2010 — Two Smith Middle School students were named winners in the national Crayola Dream Makers competition, and their artwork will be displayed at the U.S. Department of Education in Washington, D.C., and its offices around the country.

Three winners were chosen from each grade level. Sixth-grade students Mikhaela Sarmiento and Samantha Miller, taught by art teacher Savannah Nichols, were selected from among 166 sixth-grade entries.

The students were asked to discuss what creativity means to them and why it is important to the world, then illustrate the problems that could have a creative solution and write about them.

Each student’s original artwork will be framed, donated and exhibited in the offices of the Department of Education, and each will receive a plaque replica of the original artwork.

Excerpts from each student’s submission are written below:

“Standing Out” by Mikhaela Sarmiento:

I think creativity is when no one tells you what to do. It is when you are being yourself and not being like any other person. If we did not have creativity in the world then we would all be the same. My painting shows one girl standing out, being creative, among a group that is all the same.

“Trapped Creativity” by Samantha Miller

 

“Trapped Creativity”by Samantha Miller:

Creativity is endless ideas your mind spurts out at you. I show an angel with no creativity who is tied down and can not spread her wings and fly. In the sky above her there is an angel who has creativity, she is painting the sky.