2008 East Lansing Children's Film Festival Winners
Elementary school division:
2nd Place
Happy Christmas Time, Alisa
Suttons Bay Public, Suttons Bay

Middle school division:
2nd Place
I’m a Raindrop: Poetry of Theta Burke, Andrew and Rachel
Leland Public School and Home School, Suttons Bay
Honorable Mention
The Invisible Flower, Olivia
Suttons Bay Public School, Lake Leelanau, MI

High school division
2nd Place
Perspective, Zoë
Suttons Bay High School, Lake Leelanau
3rd Place
The Perfectly Seasoned Life, Kayleigh
Suttons Bay High School, Lake Leelanau,
Honorable Mention
Box, Clayton
Suttons Bay High School, Cedar

The Leelanau Song:
From a TAP workshop
in October 2007

Students: Ben, Maria and Rachel created graphics to illustrate and animate the Leelanau Song, written by Art and Hazel Oberhelman from Leland/Cincinnati and sung by Amy Hubbell from the Leelanau Enterprise.
'wwwww.sbdnl.tap'
See the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore from a kids perspective!
16 members of TAP , an animation studio in Suttons Bay, spent a week this summer in June, living and working at a historic farmhouse in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Park, which quickly and affectionately became known as the "Animation Farm". They explored this unique environment so close to home by immersing themselves and discovering the park from within. The students were asked to respond to the 'Who, What, When, Where and Why' of this national park in our own backyard. Five lively animated movies were the result, to create 'wwwww.sbdnl.tap'.
The movie made it's world premiere at the Visitor's Center in Empire August 21st.


Better Know A President!
Curious to learn more about our political system and the leaders of our country, 15 year old Corrina Ulrich proposed this project for TAP: Better Know A President! Over the course of the 2006-07 school year, 25 students and parents of The Art Place volunteered to create an animated portrait of each President of the United States. Each drawing took at least two hours and some required six hours to make! Our hope is to inspire you to discover more about the Presidents of our country and do your own research to understand how truly fascinating they are!

The dvds are available for $19.95 (and that incluces s/h) from
The Art Place, P.O. Box 528, Suttons Bay, Michigan 49682
or for more information:
231-271-0104 - tap@theartplace.org

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