UPDATE: EAST LANSING - Third and fourth grade students of Hiawatha Elementary in Okemos welcomed the broadway play War Horses to the Wharton Center. According to Dana Brazil, Associate Director of MSUFCU Institute for Arts and Creativity, students read the play, learned in depth about the history, and used their creativity to depict their perceptions of War Horses.

This process was apart of an initiative called an Eye for Broadway. Okemos Art teacher Eric Staib created the initiative three years ago to connect his students and other schools with art and broadway.

This year the students created individual horses made of paper, colorful paints, and glue. As a collaborative effort they created a 6"8 tall horse made of water color paint, fluorescent paint, markers, yarn and gems. Mop heads and push brooms were used to create the horses' mane and tail.

"Students from third grade all the way up until college at MSU helped create the art work in the corridor," said Dana Brazil.

"The horse (created by Hiawatha) was a collaborative effort and
if someone where to purchase it, the money goes to an arts fund that helps bring kids to Wharton who normally couldn't," said Brazil.

War Horses is now showing at the Wharton from December 5-9.



ORIGINAL STORY: EAST LANSING - Hiawatha students welcomed War Horse actors and staff to the Wharton.