Collecting trash, newspapers, cardboard boxes, and plastic bottles are all acts of recycling, but in the Best Day Ever Show, all of these are used to design fashion costumes.
For the art department event, art students are divided into small groups and given a specific type of music to use for inspiration for their costume. They work together to design costumes made from trash, but don’t know their specific materials before they come to the show.
Each group has a leader who assigns specific parts of the costume to work on.
“My specific job was I kind of helped brainstorm the idea. The personal genre we got was rapper, hip hop, so I kind of got set on the props, and made a jukebox,” sophomore Audrey Boehmke said.
One student is also picked to be the model to present the recycled outfit. The group takes measurements and designs directly onto the model who performs with that costume.
“You have to be bubbly, kind of outgoing. That means you can be shy, but when you get out there and you walk the runway, you have to show out a lot,” senior Chloe Hebert said.
Best Day Ever not just helps students develop skills related to art, but also helps students gain more teamwork skills and experience in real life.
“Being able to work collaboratively in groups and being able to work with the team to learn how to problem solve and troubleshoot,” Art teacher Nicole Brisco said. “Like in life, things kind of come up that are not the best situation, but how to work through those situations to still finish what you’re doing.”
But learning how to work in groups and having fun aren’t the only things that come out of Best Day Ever. It also helps students become more interested in some art and fashion related careers in the future.
“If you didn’t think you were wanting to be in fashion before, this would probably push you forward to go into a fashion career, and give you more of an artistic point of view,” Chloe said