Graduation art project marches through MMS
By Erin A. & Taryn B., Navy Team

Can you hear the footsteps? If you can't, you will soon see a stampede of feet all across the first floor of MMS on June 20 th .

Why you ask? The “My Journey through Middlesex” Project is an eighth grade student art project managed by two eighth grade students, Emily Crump and Elizabeth Billeter.

The feet, which have been printed in four different colors: navy, tan, maroon, and green, symbolize the four teams that make up the eighth grade, and they will have memories written on them by the eighth graders. Each student will have their own pair and will write a separate memory on each foot.

Ms. Cellini, the art teacher helping the students coordinate the project, explained what the feet really mean. They symbolize a journey; our journey through the school, three long years of friends and stories, classes and tests. This project melts two ideas together: the idea of our journey and a transition from one school to another, a new beginning, from children to adults, it is our time to end one journey and start a new one.

The feet will start around the cafeteria and point toward the rotunda and out the door. While looking at this art viewers will see the meaning of the eighth graders passage through Middlesex Middle School . They will feel a sense of connection and belonging as they read what was most important to the Class of 2007.

Ms. Cellini explained that the girls, Emily and Elizabeth, really brought together the whole project. They not only did all the leg work for putting the project together but also added that spark that is associated with the Class of 2007. In the early stages they were also assisted by Alex Enzor and Caroline Bewkes.

This will be the only art displayed during graduation this year. In years past, it's been very difficult to return the art that had been displayed. This way everyone is represented and they don't need to worry about collecting their art work. This is the students' project, from the feet to the execution, and it is wonderful that the students got to be such a big part of it.