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Hexagons from countries around the world – more than 400 – demonstrate deeper understandings of what a culture of interdependence looks like through the eyes of middle school and high school students in a wide variety of media in the 4th Annual Hexagon Project exhibit. The opening Friday, Sept. 3, will feature “Hexagons of the Heart,” an installation representing the connection of hexagons made by Tunkhannock Area High School students with art teacher, Patricia Hahn, who traveled to Haiti in March with Keystone College Professor Dave Porter, and the Haitian children’s responses. In their honor, a Haitian kite-making workshop we be held, headed by Kati Kameroski and Danielle Cady, Art Education students at Keystone College. Hexagons from Rebecca Rabel’s students at Mid Valley Secondary School who traveled to and from Haiti in March with Marianne Milks’ OneBigBoost Soup Kitchen will also be displayed.

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From left, are Interdependence Hexagon Chair and Committee: Nancy Yamin, Art teacher, Scranton High School; Beth Burkhauser, Chairperson; Liz Faist, Artist in Residence NEIU 19; Dan Demora, Lackawanna Trail High School and Sarah Dibble, Blue Ridge High School. Also serving as co-chairpeople are George Barbolish, Mountain View High School and Annette Palutis, retired from Scranton School District, absent from photo.

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The 4th Annual Hexagon Exhibit will open Friday, Sept. 3, at the MAC Gallery 123 Wyoming Avenue, starting at 6 p.m. Shown above, one of the Hexagons that will be on display.

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Events will take place Sept. 3 at the MAC Gallery 123 Wyoming Avenue, starting at 6 p.m. This is the first year for a video entry about Interdependence – from a Mollie Siegle from Lackawanna Trail High School.

A second workshop, T-shirt decoration and design with Sarrah Dibble, Blue Ridge School District will enable visitors to create a T-shirt for a donation of $1.50 and “Save a Girl.” Donations will provide a Nepali translation of the book “Sold” by Patricia McCormick. A visual slide presentation will be available for viewing of the Interdependence Hexagon Workshop given to high school students in Butwal, Nepal by Beth Burkhauser and Marianne Milks during their educational mission there in January. All this accompanied by music by The Cuban Girls and refreshments.

At 7 p.m., the recognition program will begin with an introduced theatrically by Arts Engage Students of Electric Theatre Company’s Zip-Zap-Zop and Nancy Hasty.

The exhibit can be viewed at other times by calling 570.499.5202 or e-mailing info@MelbergerArtsCenter.com