Page 14 Lincoln Daily News 2024 Logan County Fair Jul/Aug 2024 Monday, July 29 was the judging of 4-H Nonoriginal Visual Arts, Visual Arts and general projects. As usual, there were hundreds of outstanding entries. For visual arts, participants may use various media like paper, clay, leather, fiber, wood, chalk, carbon/pigment, glass/plastic, metal, and nature to produce their art. Art can even be 3D or computer generated. Non-original arts are created from either kits, pre-printed designs, or pre-molded pieces. Original arts are designs created completely by the exhibitor. Other projects included animal science, career/ leadership, general entomology, floriculture, horticulture and photography. Judges score the visual arts entries on correct use of design elements, principles, expressive elements and technique in addition to craftsmanship, creativity and inventiveness. Both during and after judging, judges make comments telling participants where they did well while also discussing how and where they could improve. Little details can be significant. Some 4-H members did several projects using various media and entered both visual and Continued -- Monday judging of 4-H Visual Arts and General Projects non-visual projects, while others focused on one or two projects. Though many have been working on their projects for a few months, others started projects the last few weeks. Participants included those who are just starting out in 4-H and those who have been in 4-H for several years. For some, 4-H has been a family tradition for many generations. One example of someone whose family has long been involved in 4-H is Luke Wibben. Though it is his first year in 4-H, his great grandmother Grace Wibben said Luke is the fifth generation in his family to be involved in 4-H. Luke did seven projects including visual arts, stained, nature and wildlife and said he has worked on the projects all summer.
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