ArtSMART 2002/2003 Winners

Harbor School in Boston (Grand Prize)
Fifteen students in the school’s art club spent two hours after school, three days each week for nearly two months to create the grand-prize mural. The winning masterpiece, which spans the staircase leading to the school’s library and art room, depicts colorful renditions of famous paintings by artists such as Monet, Van Gogh and Dali. The students worked to recreate the artists’ paintings using their own SweeTARTS style. Each replica incorporates the SweeTARTS logo or the candy itself in a unique way, such as Salvador Dali’s Soft Watch at Moment of First Explosion, which features SweeTARTS packages instead of melting clocks, and Oscar Claude Monet’s Haystacks at Chailly at Sunrise, which depicts a SweeTARTS logo blending into the horizon at sunset. The mural is now a permanent work-of-art for all to admire every day.

Edison Perdue Academy (Pontiac, Mich.)
Inspired by the work of Pop Artist Roy Lichtenstein, the 4’ x 4’ masterpiece depicts a very glamorous portrait of a woman’s face expressing pure indulgence as she eats SweeTARTS candy from a SweeTARTS box. In true modern art style, the woman is surrounded by colorful swirls in a mosaic pattern created from real pieces of Nestlé SweeTARTS. The artists, who are in grades 3rd through 8th, showed their true dedication to the project by spending countless hours attaching approximately 4,000 SweeTARTS to the piece in order to create the bright yellow, green, pink and blue hues seen in the portrait. At the top, the title reads "POP SweeTARTS."

Jackson Middle School (Villa Park, Ill.)
Approximately 40 students came together to create the "2003 Sweetmobile," a life-size three-dimensional car bearing a similar resemblance to the modern Volkswagen Beetle. The car’s many realistic features include a creatively decorated antenna, front and rear windshield wipers and fuzzy SweeTARTS dice that dangle from the rearview mirror, all of which sport blue, yellow, green, pink, orange and purple pastel colors. The students’ many hours of hard work led to the artistic hand painted designs on all sides of the car, as well as the thousands of glued-on SweeTARTS that adorn the entire light-blue vehicle, including the windshield wipers, dice, license plate and mosaic SweeTARTS’ "S" logo on the hood. After a lot of dedication and hard work, all the students agreed that the "2003 Sweetmobile" is sure to be the sweetest ride on the road.

Gutermuth Elementary School (Louisville, Ky.)
The self-portrait quilt brings together the imagination and talent of many 3rd through 5th graders as each student was faced with the challenge of creating his/her own self-portrait. As the pictures developed, students began to place themselves in individual SweeTARTS scenes. Some students depict themselves eating the candy, while others show when or where they would eat SweeTARTS. The portraits are then fastened together at the corners with SweeTARTS wrappers to create a patchwork quilt of faces. Each SweeTARTS wrapper is cut into a different shape, with the very center of the quilt held together with a wrapper cut in the shape of a heart. The students came up with the idea for their masterpiece after studying self-portraiture through various artists, such as Frida Kahlo, from the ArtSMART art activity magazines provided to them on behalf of Nestlé SweeTARTS.

Forest Meadow Jr. High (Dallas, Texas)
Inspired by the students’ recent Egyptian studies, the painting, which is composed of three separate panels put together, uses vibrant colors and scenes to bring Egyptian culture to life. From the regal mummies to the vibrant headpieces, SweeTARTS candy, wrappers and logo are used throughout to create this Egyptian motif painting. Students even brought their own SweeTARTS style into the masterpiece by adorning the Egyptian figures with modern day "ST" chains and earrings. A deeper look at the work illustrates the students’ racial diversity through the different skin tones and colors used to create the Egyptian figures.

Page Private School (Orlando, Florida)
After buying 36 pounds of SweeTARTS Hearts, Page Private students worked together to recreate Leonardo da Vinci’s original "Mona Lisa" painting in their own SweeTARTS style. Approximately 50 students teamed-up during free periods, lunchtime and even after school to complete this one-of-a-kind masterpiece. Paying close attention to detail, the dedicated students used their talent and imagination to break, glue and patiently arrange together some 36,000 broken SweeTARTS Hearts pieces to construct a mosaic replica of the original “Mona Lisa” painting. Through extensive collaboration on technique, color choice and proper placement of highlight and shadow areas, the students created a masterpiece, even using a light wash of black over the broken pieces to create just the right amount of depth to their work-of-art.

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