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Young students learn how medium affects the artist's message

By Harold Reutter
harold.reutter@theindependent.com
Published: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 11:28 PM CST
The medium is the message.

Most of the High Ability Learner students who attended Tuesday's art technique workshop at Westridge Middle School have probably never heard that famous quote from Marshall McLuhan.

And even if they did, the young HAL students might not understand what McLuhan meant when he said those words. But the truth of McLuhan's statement was woven into everything students did on Tuesday.

Jenna Manley, a senior at Grand Island Senior High, said charcoal drawings are all about light and shadow: The only colors when the work is done is the color of the paper and the black of the carbon, which is then smudged to produce shades of gray.  Full Story

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