The Amazing Race through the Arts: From Plock, Poland to Gera, Germany, to Takaoka, Japan

The Foundation for Arts and Music in Education of the Wabash area will host its fourth annual FAME Festival on March 27, 2010. The festival will take place at the Honeywell Center in Wabash, Indiana.


The FAME foundation was founded in 1987 to foster and perpetuate creativity through multicultural arts education.

The theme this year is centered around the countries of Poland, Germany, and Japan, each having a sister city to Fort Wayne, Indiana.

The 2nd 9 weeks group of fourth graders each made a poster representing the FAME festival's theme. Each poster refers to Poland, Germany, and Japan in some way.

One of the Blair Pointe submissions will be made into a professionally printed poster which will be used around Peru to publicize the FAME Festival.

For more details about the Foundation for Art and Music in Education, or the FAME Festival, please visit their website: http://www.famearts.org/ .

American Gothid Redux

Surely you recognize this famous American painting...

American Gothic by Grant Wood

But you may not be as familiar with these masterpieces...

During the second 9 weeks, the 4th graders studied Grant Wood's American Gothic. They also learned the word, "PARODY."

A "parody" is a picture that imitates an artist's style, or a famous artwork. The intention is to create humor, or to ridicule.

These parodies of American Gothic create quite a bit of humor, wouldn't you say?