Thursday, March 17, 2016

M"art"ch Madness in Full Swing

This is our second year to have our M"art"ch Madness bracket full of artwork.  This year the art for our sweet sixteen were all completed by Texas artists.  For our first round we had some really close contests with one coming down with votes at 50.3% to 49.7%!  We will vote down from our elite eight starting next week. On an even more positive note, if that were even possible, we decided to email all the artists from our brackets to let them know we were learning about them and their art works.  We have already received emails back from 7 of our 16 artists within the first day!!!  As the emails were read to all the classes, the excitement was built even higher.  We looked at a map of Texas to locate all of the towns in which the artists lived as well as looked at some of their other art. It has been a learning experience beyond any we could have imagined. The presentation the students used to vote and learn about the artists is linked below.  Feel free to learn along with our Polser students. Can't wait to see which of the Texas artworks will be the final 2016 M"art"ch Madness winner! Stay tuned.....
M"art"ch Madness Presentation