Wednesday, August 20, 2008 9:34 PM CDT
Cultivating Creativity children's art exhibit presented in Charleston
CHARLESTON — The traveling exhibition Cultivating Creativity 2007-2008: Consolidated Communications Children’s Art Exhibit finishes its year-long tour with a presentation in Charleston at Eastern Illinois University’s Booth Library, August 11 — 21. The exhibit showcases some of the outstanding art produced through east-central Illinois school Art programs. Presented is art by 42 students, each representing a different school. The art was created during the 2006-2007 school year.
The art representing Charleston area schools was created by Allison Flick from Mark Twain Elementary School, Nicholas Hockenberry from Ashmore Elementary School, Presley Jones from Carl Sandburg Elementary School, Drake Sweeney from Jefferson Elementary School, Sarah Tucker from Charleston Middle School, and Miranda Wolhman from Charleston High School.
Flick completed the crayon Self Portrait while in kindergarten at Mark Twain Elementary School. Hockenberry’s crayon and watercolor piece, About to Blow, was made as a 2nd grader at Ashmore Elementary School. Both of these artworks were created under the direction of art teacher Rebecca Hitchcock.
Jones colored pencil/mixed media Egyptian Art piece was completed as a 3rd grader at Carl Sandburg Elementary School. Heather Bryan was the art teacher for the artwork. Sweeney’s watercolor and marker piece, Mystical Magritte, Self Portrait, was made in the 6th grade at Jefferson Elementary School. Dorothy Bennett provided the art direction for this project.
Tucker’s wire piece, Makin Muzik, was created in the 8th grade while at Charleston Middle School. The art teacher for this project was Mandy White. Representing Charleston High School is Wolhman’s 11th grade pencil artwork, Vanish. Toni Satterfield oversaw the completion of this artwork.
Cultivating Creativity 2007-2008 is sponsored by Consolidated Communications and the Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University. This annual program presents some of the outstanding art by area students through the Cultivating Creativity exhibit program and emphasizes the importance of including the arts as part of the regular school curriculum. The exhibit travels to a total of 12 area communities, from Assumption to Paris and from Tuscola to Effingham.
The exhibit is made up of art completed in a wide variety of media and styles. There are tempera, oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings, drawings in pencil, ink, pastel, and marker, plus collage. Other media include textiles, printmaking, photography, and scratchboard.
Represented in the exhibit are students from: Arthur District #305; Casey-Westfield District # C-4; Central A&M District #21; Charleston District #1; Cowden-Herrick District #3A; Crestwood Elementary and Junior High School, Paris; East Prairie Junior High School, Tuscola; Effingham District #40; Kansas District #3; Mattoon District #2; Neoga District #3; North and South Elementary Schools, Marshall; Oakland District #5; Okaw Valley District #302; Pana High School; St. Mary’s School, Mattoon; Stewardson-Strasburg District #5A; Sullivan High School; and Windsor District #1.
States William Cleveland, from the Center of the Study of Art and Community, engagement in the arts “offers an alternative for success and respectability for…the discipline these students learn through the arts often carries over to their study of other academic subjects.” The fact of this statement has been shown in numerous studies.
Cultivating Creativity is an educational outreach program of the Tarble Arts Center. The Tarble also offers a variety of other programs for area schools, including a tour/workshop Enrichment program that is open to area fifth grade and to junior/senior high art students, a month-long artist-in-the-schools residency, guided tours, and teacher workshops. Most programs are presented free of charge to the participating schools and supported through Tarble membership contributions and the Tarble Arts Center Endowment.
For more information about the Cultivating Creativity exhibit or other programs contact the Tarble Arts Center at 217/581-ARTS (-2787) or tarble@eiu.edu. The Tarble Arts Center is funded in part by Tarble Arts membership contributions, the EIU Foundation, and the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency. A division of the EIU College of Arts & Humanities, the Tarble is accredited by the American Association of Museums.
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