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Fine Arts Festival: Marietta City Schools showcases student creations

Photo by Peyton Neely Phillips Elementary third-grader Brooke Hall, 9, and Marietta Middle School student Cassidy Graham, 12, look at art displayed at the Marietta City Schools Fine Arts Festival on Wednesday evening in the high school’s gym.

MARIETTA — From self portraits to flowers made from recycled bottles, art of nearly every type could be found at the Marietta City Schools Fine Arts Festival on Wednesday.

This event showcased pottery, paintings, sculptures and even a person sitting still to create a visual effect created from the artistic minds of students in elementary school through high school. There were also vocal performances changing every 10 minutes to keep the event varied and lively.

“I’m just really impressed at the variety of art that’s here,” said parent Jamie Clore, 32, of Marietta. “I know my daughter feels really proud to have her art chosen for display.”

Not only did Clore’s daughter, 6-year-old Abigail Clore from Putnam Elementary School, have a sense of pride showing off her art but so did students from all over the district with more than 300 pieces of art displayed.

“I like that people are looking at it because I really like it,” said Abigail about the coil pot she made in art class.

Photo by Peyton Neely A portrait of the late Tyler Beckett, who took his own life earlier this year while a senior at Marietta High School, was created by an unknown artist and displayed at the Marietta City Schools Fine Arts Festival on Wednesday.

Marietta High School senior Nora Torbett, 18, was sitting still for the entirety of the art show with her face painted to create a visual illusion. Torbett’s face was painted as she sat in front of a background that displayed The Scream, which was painted by Norwegian Expressionist artist Edvard Munch between 1893 and 1910.

“We do this every year and when I would come to these art shows when I was younger, I knew I wanted to be this person one day,” she said. “Me and two other students worked on this together.”

Torbett, along with others, painted the background and her face. People attending could photograph Torbett and turn a person sitting in an image into a 2-dimensional photo on their camera.

“I like that people are taking pictures of me and I really like hearing what people are saying as they pass by,” she said. “The reactions are fun as they realize I’m sitting here in the picture.”

Marietta Middle School student Cassidy Graham, 12, was exploring each art exhibit with her friend Brooke Hall, 9, of Marietta. The two had art displayed but said they enjoyed seeing what others have done.

Photo by Peyton Neely Marietta High School senior Nora Torbett, 18, poses in a reverse Trompe L’Oeil painting created to deceive the eye. This was displayed at the Marietta City Schools Fine Arts Festival in the high school gym on Wednesday evening.

“It’s pretty cool that my art is here and looking at everyone else’s,” said Graham. “These clay pots made by people in the high school are really good.”

Hall laughed and agreed with her friend as she continued to move her eyes around the gym looking at all there was to view.

“The Scream girl face is really cool, no way could I sit there for that long,” said Graham. “I fidget too much.”

Grandparents Rick Greathouse, 58, and Tammie, 54, came to support their granddaughter who had a lot of art displayed.

“I took tonight off for this because she really wanted me to come but wow, I am impressed at how much there is here,” said Rick. “It’s much bigger than I thought it would ever be.”

Rick said his granddaughter, 11-year-old Kacee Scott, had her art displayed before at other events and that she has a knack for it.

“She’s impressive. She had some of her art put on the yearbook last year,” he said.

Some of Scott’s artwork involved holographic paper and a marker to make a rainbow fish. The purples, blues and reds of the marker shimmered with the help of the holographic paper.

Tammie Greathouse said couldn’t get over how many pieces of art there were to view.

“It’s unbelievable. We just got here and there’s so much more to see,” she said.

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