Expressions show fosters creativity among students

All Mountain Brook Elementary students in kindergarten through sixth grade were encouraged show their creativity by submitting original artwork to the PTO Elementary Arts Council Expressions Contest. 

Students used various art forms to express their interpretation for this year’s theme, “I Am...” The contest featured five different art categories: creative writing, photography, visual arts, video and a new category, instrumental performance. Categories were then entered by three different grade entries, and winners from each elementary school competed at the district level, where community artists judged the submissions.  

Each school promotes the contest in its own way and helps encourage and foster creativity among the students by awarding ice cream treats or doughnut parties to preliminary winners. Kenneth Camp at Cherokee Bend Elementary oversaw technical support for film and music entries this year.

The winners were celebrated at the annual District Exhibition at host Brookwood Forest with congratulations offered by Superintendent Dicky Barlow.