Spreading Joy with Art

This spring, FPD’s high school Art 1 and 2 classes gathered together to spread some encouragement and congratulations to two high school graduates from the Macon/Bibb Regional Youth Detention Center. By using skills from their recent study of line and the Mail Art Movement, approximately 40 students designed postcards, wrote letters to both graduates, and mailed them off.

Mail art represents any art form that is small enough to be mailed with or without an envelope. This art form emerged from the structures of the commercial art market and traditional venues such as galleries and museums. Artists would send their artwork by mail to the person of their choice, who would then have the freedom to decide whether to receive and/or to respond to the piece.

Many of these artworks were often a result of a group project and were put in exhibitions without any kind of jury, censorship, or admission criteria. The idea of the founders and the members of Mail Art Movement was to create a global community through the post as a mass medium—putting an emphasis on the act of exchange and collaboration— free of the typical barriers.

Dance Awards Band Awards

FPD took home division wins at the Smoky Mountain Open Nationals in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, for Hip Hop, and Pom. Middle School Georgia Music Educators Association (GMEA) District XI Honor Band: Samantha Gray, Oliver Hunt, Ben Waits, Alden Sammons

The dance teams are coached by Lydia Gray. GMEA South Region Honor Band: Oliver Hunt

High School GMEA District XI Honor Band: Chandler Katzer and Cason Katzer