Photo by Ellen Ferrera-Dick
OVHS students Destiny Underwood, Cameron Nickerson, Savannah Gibbons, Kelly McGill and Chloe Wirey check out the trading cards that will help them contact students from around the world and around the area.

•November 2, 2016•

By Ellen Ferrera-Dick
For the News Progress

Did your grandmother, perhaps, have an old scrapbook filled with colorful, little trading cards? Collecting them in this manner was a popular activity by the turn of the century.

Today, the trading cards are having a renaissance in the art classes of Jeni Yantis at Okaw Valley High School in Bethany.

“I follow the blogs of other teachers - it’s a way to exchange project ideas, and I found this other teacher who created the trading card idea,” Yantis explained. “She then started exchanging her students’ work. I really liked the idea of artwork here in Bethany being shared with other students all over the world.”

And that’s where the original artwork from Bethany is headed-all over the world.

Measuring barely two inches by three inches- about the size of sports trading cards, the brightly colored and multi-topic creations are designed by art students and are drawn in ink, pencil, crayon, acrylic paint, gel pen or whatever strikes their fancy.

Once created, a group of 100 cards are sent to another teacher who sends them out to other schools all over the world.      Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.