And the Farm Animal Frenzy winner is…

… “Franny La Poulet” from Durham’s Cresset Christian Academy! Franny is a five-foot-tall chicken covered with interwoven plastic shopping bags to create the look and color of feathers. Her eyes are old slide projectors bulbs, and her beak and feet are covered with paper mache newspaper. Franny is sporting a bow, glittery eyelashes made from plastic spoons and toenails made from plastic caps. At night, this “green” farm animal creation will glow from the three solar lights placed inside. She was created by the school’s AP art class. As part of the first-place honors, Cresset Christian Academy art students will receive $1,000 for…

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High School Art Classes + Farm Animals = “A Whole Lotta Green”

For a couple of years, we’ve had a crazy competition for high school art classes called the Farm Animal Frenzy. In the past, each school was given a large, fiberglass farm animal to decorate, and compete to see which farm animal best fits the current State Fair theme. Over time, we inherited a large collection of eclectic farm animals because some schools couldn’t take back their creation after the Fair for one reason or another. Being the resourceful people that we are, we have found other interesting ways to use these animals, such as in certain videos, but quickly realized that we would have a…

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