Sketch for Safety Winners Receive Art Lesson with Ed Fischer

 

Middle school students across Rochester recently unleashed their creativity, sharpened up their pencils, and uncapped their pens to participate in the first ever Sketch for Safety art competition, as part of publicizing National Night Out.

This challenge was for 6-8th graders to be creative and turn their positive thoughts about their neighborhood into works of art. Students were asked to draw something that displayed “Why they like their neighborhoods” and/or about “neighborhood safety.” This contest was sponsored by RNeighbors, the Rochester Neighborhood Resource Center; RSVP (Senior Volunteer Corps); and the local National Night Out committee.

Tess Panetta, Madelynn Jasperson, Elizabeth Smith, and Jordan Schultz were the winners of this local art contest and will be receiving, along with other prizes, an art lesson from nationally renowned cartoonist Ed Fischer, who recently retired from the Post-Bulletin. His cartoons have been syndicated in over 90 newspapers and have been reprinted in Time and Newsweek magazines, the New Yorker and in the World Book Encyclopedia.

The lesson will take place at the Rochester Art Center, this Thursday, July 31, at 4 pm.

All of the winners are students at Friedell Middle School.

National Night Out National Night Out is next Tuesday, August 5, more information can be found by clicking here.