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Staff photo by John Zoz
Fifth and sixth grade students at Hill Elementary School examine their school
new mobile.
Computer parts are art at Hill School
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By Marlene Burbach
Discarded computer parts are more
than junk; for some, they're art.
At least they are for students and
teachers at Kich I till hiementary School,
school at 5230 Tipperary Trail. A mobile
made of computer parts suspended from
brass bars is the latest display in the
school's permanent art collection.
The mobile, which hangs in the school's
media center, was fashioned from
computer hardware discs, a circuit board
and symbols from a computer keyboard,
Kelores Wenz, a secretary at Hill School,
said.
The school administrators had wanted
a mobile, so they contacted Roger
VanDeventer, the art consultant for the
Lincoln Public Schools.
VanDeventer contacted a UNL student,
Jon Swindell, to do the work.
Swindell wanted to make the mobile
representative of a current issue,
VanDeventer said.
With student suggestions, Swindell
created a computer mobile that was
completed in two days.
Two or three times a day during that
time, the teachers of Hill School took
their classes on a 15 - to 20-minute "walk
through experience." The students asked
Swindell questions and saw the mobile
in its early stages of creation. When the
project was completed, there was a
dedication ceremony, which all the
students observed.
"The students seem to be very
enthralled with it (the mobile),"
VanDeventer said. "Part of that is from the
fact that they know the artist and saw it
built."
The past 10 years, one of VanDeventer's
tasks has been to set up different projects
for the 56 public schools in Lincoln. The
projects are funded by the local PTAs
and the Lincoln Board of Education.
"They have employed several hundred
artists, some for one or two days, a month
or even a couple of years," VanDeventer
said.
Once a project is completed, it becomes
the property of the school. All projects
are observed by the students during their
creation.
Other projects completed in the Lincoln
Public Schools are stained-glass windows,
welded and kinetic sculptures and
paintings. Artist also are hired to teach
courses in watercolor painting, cartoon
drawing and illustration drawing.
The next scheduled project set up by
VanDeventer will be at Holmes and
Brownell schools. Nancy Teague, a
professional artist and former art teacher,
will teach illustration drawing in two days
of large-group demonstrations and classes
in which students will participate.
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