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RENSSELAER â The annual Rensselaer Central High School Art Show received a little extra help this year, as a collaboration was created to help promote the show.Â
The collaboration was a work of art between the art students, who are supplying the artwork, and the marketing students, who are helping to promote the show.
Rensselaer Central High School business teacher Stephanie Dobson and the marketing class worked with art teacher Kelley Spurgeon to help promote the annual show that features work from all the art students.Â
Dobson said advertising was one of the topics the students recently learned about so as a hands-on project the students helped promote the sale of the outdoor furniture made by Michael Goadâs class. Helping promote the art show is the second project the students could complete.Â
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