Inman Select Choir and NHS Art
Department Collaboration
Back in July, the Inman sixth grade Select Choir found out that they had been selected to perform at the
Missouri Music Educators Association state conference (MMEA). To be invited to this conference is equal
to winning a State Championship in a sport. Choir director, Blake Richter, knew that they needed to stand
out in the crowd by doing something spectacular. To make their performance more visually appealing,
Richter automatically thought of the Nixa High School art department. He reached out to art teacher
Megan Johnson and proposed his unique idea.
”If you know Blake, you know how passionate he is for his students and his program. And that’s how I feel
too, so any chance to work with other people like that, I was right onboard,” stated Johnson.
Richter's big idea was to have the art department students create artwork that showed visual imagery of
the songs that the Inman Select Choir was singing.
”We each got our own song, read through the lyrics, and then we created artwork based on what the lyrics
were about,” said Sage Burton, senior art student.
There were 12 art students chosen to create a piece that represented each of the select choir's
performances. Of the 12, there were seven art pieces selected to be put in the program that was going to
be passed out to the 800-1,000 people at the MMEA Conference.
Due to weather conditions, the choir was unable to travel to the state conference. The choir couldn’t let
their hard work and preparation go to waste so Mr. Richter created a video of their entire MMEA
performance.
Members
Cameron Abernathy
Sharika Biswas
Autumn Blount
Sam Brademeyer
Jake Broadwater
Adelle Carter
Maegan Choate
Meliah Copley
Olivia Costley
Nevaeh Dan
Claire Fletcher
Arianna Forster
Patience Forster
Mercedes Galindo
Kalid Garcia
Olivia Goetz
Nathan Haynes
Shobi Hill
Kylie Hood
Gracie Jenkins
Nora Jenkins
Liam Karlsons
Lillian Kirk
London Kirk
Caleb Krall
Kat Larue
Bronwyn Long
Landon Munhollon
Sophia Pina-Cruz
MacKenzie Pojar
Lola Quigg
Karson Robb
Lilli Robison
Lexi Selle
Abbey Spragg
Alexa Tapprich
Raylyn Taylor
Bailey Thompson
Kaden Ulrich
Molly Vaughan
Makaela Wentworth
Makayla Wojczyk
Allyson Young