By Tina Comeau
THE VANGUARD
NovaNewsNow.com
Not only can people listen to music during Molson Canadian Nova Scotia Music Week being held in Yarmouth, but they can also see it through the eyes of some local high school students.
An event entitled Unleash the Icon is being held at the Yarmouth Branch of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia on Saturday, Nov. 6 from noon to 5 p.m.
Put on by the Minor Music Association, the afternoon will feature a variety of workshops but it will also include an exhibit of art.
Many of the pieces are works of art that have been created by art students at Yarmouth Consolidated Memorial High School. The students were challenged to listen to a Nova Scotia musician or band’s music, select a song and interpret that song through a work of art.
“I think it is amazing to be doing this,” student Alissa Muise said as she and her classmates were working on their projects in class on Wednesday, Nov. 5. A lot of the student work has also taken place after school hours. Musie selected a song by Jenocide for her art inspiration.
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A short distance away her classmate Lauren Powell worked on her art piece. After visiting the Music Nova Scotia website and listening to a preview for the band Caledonia, she used the band’s song Winter Drips for her inspiration.
“I went to their My Space page and from there I found a song that connected to me,” she said, saying when you have a song you like its easier to try to connect that music with a piece of art.
Her classmate Hannah Bray found that was the case when she heard the song The Dirtiest Drunk by The Stanfields.
“Their song just stuck out because it made me laugh,” she said.
Alongside of her classmate Amy Austin works on her piece of art inspired by the music of the band Ghettosocks. She welcomed the opportunity to delve into the musical culture through a work of art.
The students’ teacher, Dave Baldwin, was very excited for this opportunity for his art class.
“It’s amazing because it’s given us inspiration to create art,” he said.
Kim Anderson, of the Minor Music Association, was thrilled by the enthuasiam of the students, and the works of art they created.
“Music is so powerful,” she said, and there are so many ways you can experience a connection to it, as the student art work demonstrates.
Not only does Anderson hope that the public come to the art gallery to see the exhibit, but she hopes the bands who inspired the art work also get a chance to visit.
