2006-2007 Cultivating Creativity Children’s Art Exhibit Ends Tour at Cross County Mall
CHARLESTON
- The traveling exhibition Cultivating Creativity 2006-2007: Consolidated Communications Children’s Art Exhibit ends its year-long tour August 28 – September 9 at the Cross County Mall in
Mattoon, located at 700 Broadway East. The exhibit presents art by 44 students, each representing a different school from east-central
Illinois. The art was created during the 2005-2006 school year.
The
Mattoon and
Windsor students represented in Cultivating Creativity 2006-2007 are: Taylor Beals (
Williams
Elementary School,
Mattoon), Roberto Garza (
Mattoon
Middle School), Kristin Stevens (
Mattoon
High School), and Edgar Tijerina (
Mattoon
Middle School), Megan Rardin (
St.
Mary
School,
Mattoon). Melanie Adams (
Windsor
Elementary School) and Amber Black (
Windsor Junior/Senior High School).
From
Taylor is Running Horse, an oil pastel and watercolor created in Grade 5 with Art teacher Joyce Jackson. Roberto’s piece is the collograph Big Blue Jar from Grade 7 made with Art teacher Jamie Willis. Kristin is represented with The Girl Next Door, a pencil drawing done as a freshman with Art teacher Janahn Kolden. The title of Edgar’s colored pencil drawing is Sunflower Still Life, done in Grade 6 with Art teacher Darla Gardner. Megan is represented by her crayon and brown paper piece Indian Sunset from Grade 4, which was done with Art teacher Dawn Owen.
From Melanie is Cubism Leaf, an oil pastel done in Grade 3. Amber’s charcoal drawing Time Warp from Grade 10. Both were made with Art teacher Kris Marsland.
Cultivating Creativity 2006-2007 is sponsored by Consolidated Communications and the
Tarble
Arts
Center,
Eastern
Illinois
University. The exhibit is made up of art done in a wide variety of media and styles. It traveled to a total of 12 east-central
Illinois communities, from Assumption to
Paris and from Tuscola to Effingham. This annual program is a partnership of the
Tarble
Arts
Center and Consolidated Communications to showcase some of the outstanding art by area students through the Cultivating Creativity exhibit program and to help raise awareness of the importance of including the arts as part of the regular school curriculum.
An article in the January 2007 issue of NEA Today states that students who participate in arts programs on a regular basis are four times more likely to be recognized for academic achievement, participate in a math and science fair, and win an award for writing an essay or poem. Other studies have shown similar correlations between academic achievement for students who study or participate in the arts.
Also represented in the exhibit are students from: Arthur District #305; Central A&M District #21; Charleston District #1; Cowden-Herrick District #3A; Crestwood Grade and Junior High School, Paris; East Prairie Junior High School, Tuscola; Effingham Junior High School; Kansas District #3; Neoga District #3; North and South Elementary Schools, Marshall; Oakland District #5; Okaw Valley District #302; Pana Junior High School; South and West Side Elementary Schools, Effingham; Stewardson-Strasburg District #5A; Sullivan High School; and Unity East and West Schools, Tolono.
Cultivating Creativity is a community-based educational program of the
Tarble
Arts
Center. For information about this or other Tarble programs phone 217-581-ARTS (-2787).
The
Tarble
Arts
Center, a division of the
EIU
College of Arts & Humanities, is funded in part by Tarble membership contributions, the Tarble Arts Center Endowment/EIU Foundation, and the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.
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