Senior Art students “wow” Italian Festival
June 4th, 2009The annual Australian Italian Festival was recently celebrated in Ingham. To join in the festivities of the week long event, a small group of Senior Art students represented the College with an art display and boomerang painting activities.
The students hosted school children, tourists and many locals at their stall and were able to teach them some traditional patterning so they could produce spectacular works of art on wooden boomerangs. In addition to the Senior Art students’ stall, a totem pole that was carved by Industrial Arts - Woodwork Teacher, Mr Hans Van Dorsselaer was also on display at the Festival. The totem pole, known as the Gowrie Pole, had carvings that represented all the cultures that make up our College community - Aboriginal Australia, Torres Strait Islands, Australia and Papua New Guinea.
The inclusion of these displays at the Festival gave the locals an insight to our College community. As always, the students were wonderful ambassadors for the College, gaining public recognition from local MP Andrew Cripps for the professionalism of their display.
Thank you to all the staff and students involved in making this a success.