A brilliant mash-up of creativity, colour and excitement filled Mary Hall on Nelson’s Tenth Street Campus at the annual Monster Party.
In what has become an annual springtime tradition, the Monster Party is a partnership between Selkirk College’s Digital Arts Program and Hume Elementary School. A major assignment for first-year students in instructor Kerry Pagdin’s class, college-aged learners are tasked with coming up with brilliant illustrations based on drawings and stories from Grade 3 counterparts.
“It was such a fun project and really cool to see all the young students excited about it,” said first-year Digital Arts Program student Paul Sotropa.
Cute and creepy digital artworks were revealed at an early-April party where college students presented their creative take of the hand drawings to eager elementary students. All through the room, the younger students were bubbling with excitement as they gazed upon the multitude of digital illustrations and accompanying stickers.
Earlier in the year, Grade 3 teacher Janet Mushumanski tasked her 24 students to come up with crayon drawings and a story about their monster to go along with it. The package of imagination was then delivered up the street to the Tenth Street Campus where college students began applying what they have learned so far in their two-year program.
The final results were stellar and the energy was infectious at the Monster Party where creativity ruled the day.
Learn more about the Digital Arts Program.
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