Festival March 16-17, 2024
Art Work Due - Dec 8, 2023
Date Dec 8, 2023
Artwork due to FAME office
300 E. Main St., Fort Wayne
Exhibitions
March 16-17, 2024
Fusion of Concert Colors Exhibit at the Fort Wayne FAME Festival
Grand Wayne Center
Sat, March 16, 2024 5 p.m.
Slideshow of Fusion artwork
highlight of Celebration of Youth Concert – Grand Wayne Center
U of St Francis Rolland Art Center
Opening reception May 30 5-7 pm
Exhibit dates May 29 – June 29
First Presbyterian Church Gallery
Exhibit Dates July 1 – August 30
FAME’s Fusion of Concert Colors promotes interdisciplinary arts understanding by encouraging students to draw connections between musical selections and the visual arts. FAME teachers guide students to create artwork as they listen to music from our current cultural arts focus. All northern Indiana elementary and middle FAME schools are invited to participate in this program.
Each year FAME partners with the Fort Wayne Philharmonic to select an orchestral work reflecting the year’s cultural focus. Students listen to this music and then create their own original artwork inspired by the music. The artwork is then displayed at the Auer Center for Art & Culture and one student’s artwork from each grade (K-9) is selected as the FAME artwork of the year and the artwork is used to promote the FAME Festival throughout the region. At the Fort Wayne FAME Festival, the Fort Wayne Philharmonic Youth Symphony and Concert Orchestras perform the music that inspired the student’s art pieces and a giant slideshow displays all the selected art pieces behind the playing musicians. The honored students and families are guests at the FAME Festival Celebration of Youth Concert. The Fusion slide show will be on March 16, 2024, 5 pm.
Participating schools must submit their student’s artwork by date December 8, 2023, to the FAME office at 300 E. Main St., Fort Wayne, IN 46802.
All artwork will be available for pickup after the General Meeting in September, 2024.
Previous Fusion Art
2023-2024 musical selection for Fusion is by:
Edvard Grieg
His musical composition is:
Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 Op. 46:IV “In the Hall of the Mountain King”.
Registration and Instructions may be found at
Information about this year’s culture theme “Myths and Legends” of Scandinavia and Nordic Region may be found at