The MUS Lower School Blog

Brooks Museum/Scholastic Magazine Exhibition

Mr. Buchman here. I am pleased to announce that MUS will be represented at the Brooks Museum exhibition sponsored by Scholastic Magazine.

In the Lower School, Marshall Sharp won a Silver Key in Sculpture.

In the Upper School, John Battle and Joseph Amagliani won Gold Keys;

Eli Wilder, Sam Harris, Louis Jackson, Spencer Fong won Silver Keys; and

John Wepfer won 2 Honorable Mentions - all in Printmaking with Mr. Burke.

Thanks to all Brooks Museum (click link and scroll down) Lower School Finalists for their hard work and sustained interest:

Phillip Aiken

Chandler Brown

Blake Fountain

Chris Galvin

Chaz Kemp

William Lamb

Eric Mabry

Caleb McCoy

Stephen Pacheco

Ronnie Randolph

Remy Rea

Chase Wyatt

The Exhibition is on view at the Brooks Museum January 24 – February 8.  The Awards Ceremonies will take place on the February 31.     

Theater Announcement

From Tim Greer, MUS Theater guru...

If you enjoy any or all of the following:

• Free food
• Power tools
• Girls
• Explosives
• Crossbows
• Swords
• Comedy
• Rock and roll
• Flesh eating plants from Outer Space

We encourage you to make the Manly Art of Theater a part of your MUS experience for next year.

Auditions are TODAY in the chapel after school.  You may be asked to :

• Read out loud
• Sing a few notes
• Dance with a group of others who are worse dancers than you

Or all of the aforementioned.  The shows in the season are Macbeth, A Thurber Carnival, and Little Shop of Horrors, all of which feature some great roles for Lower School guys. 

So if you’re looking to have some fun and applause next year, or just would like some time to check out on your own life and be somebody else for a while, come to auditions!

Artists Bring Home Kudos

Mr. Buchman is a proud man! For the 2008 Mid-South Scholastic Art Award, MUS produced some special Lower Schoolers as Junior Division Silver Key Winners.

Out of all the seventh and eighth graders who participated in the Junior Division, MUS was one of nine schools represented with four (4) winners:

Alex Crump

Sam Jacobs

Peyton Klawinski

Alex Weaver

A total of fifteen (15) Silver Key Winners were announced, so with our four, that’s better than 25% of the total award winners representing MUS.  Congratulations go to Mr. Buchman and these fine students for steller performances.

Lower Schoolers Display Sculptures

Peyton Klawinski          Deer

From Mr. Buchman:

The Scholastic Exhibition at Memphis Brooks Museum is a juried, regional exhibition sponsored by Scholastic Magazine.

Thirty-seven schools from the tri-state area are represented (Grand Prize winners are invited to a national exhibition in New   York.)  
The Brooks show opens on Saturday, January 26^th, and closes on Sunday, February 10th.  The Junior Division award ceremony is at Brooks at 1pm, Saturday, February 2^nd and is followed by a reception in the Brooks rotunda.  I’ll encourage our 4 to attend and I will be there.

Included here are the four MUS guys who will have sculptures at The Brooks.

Alex Crump                   Gene

Alex Weaver                 Elephant

Sam Jacobs                 Donut Head

MUS student art show on February 21st

Recently, I've talked about the cool mosaic heads made by members of the 7th Grade art class. 

Well, now they have their own one-night art exhibition.  The show and reception will be from 6:00-7:30 p.m. on February 21st at the David Lusk Gallery in Laurelwood shopping center.  This year, both 7th and 12th grade art classes made these heads, and both classes' works will be on display.

Cool art projects on display

Mrs. Debardeleben has a few "visitors" sharing her office than usual this week, as some of last semester's 7th grade art projects have been put on display.  Last semester's student projects, under the guidance of Mr. Jim Buchman, were the creation of mosaic heads.  Some of these are now on display in the Lower School office, but I have photos here for those who don't have time to stop by (click on each photo for a pop-up with a closer look).

The photos don't really do justice to the vibrant colors and reflective glass used in the mosaics.  Mr. Buchman is arranging to have some of the students' projects in a public exhibition, and I'll let you know more as soon as I can.