Support Your School’s Art Programs
The Clinton County Arts Council is sponsoring the 2013 Art Challenge, an art competition open to all middle schools in Clinton County. Schools choosing to participate this year include Bath, DeWitt, Fowler and Ovid-Elsie. Students from each school created a banner depicting their “Superhero(s).”
The banners will be displayed at the following county festivals this summer:
July 13 – Elsie Dairy Festival 2013 (www.elsiedairyfest.com)
July 19 – DeWitt Township’s Meadows Celebration (www.meadowscelebration.blogspot.com)
Aug. 3 – Bath Days Festival (www.bathdays.com)
Aug. 11, 12 – 2013 St. Johns Mint Festival (www.clintoncountychamber.org/mint-festival)
During each festival the public will be invited to vote for a favorite. The school receiving the most votes – accumulated throughout all four festivals – will be recognized with the “People’s Choice Award.” This and other awards, based on each banner’s content and design, will total over $850.00 which will be designated to the schools’ art programs.
Funding for the Art Challenge competition is made possible from a grant through the Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs, as well as support from local businesses, organizations and Arts Council members.
The Clinton County Arts Council, based in St. Johns, has supported the arts in mid-Michigan since 1981. The council maintains an art gallery, a railroad museum complete with actual antique railroad cars, a theater production company, summertime concerts in the park and a community choral group.
Deborah Laverty, coordinator of the middle school Art Challenge, encouraged everyone to attend the festivals and cast a vote for a favorite banner. “It’s a perfect way to enjoy the spirit of community while lending support to budding artists throughout our county,” she said.
For additional information on the 2013 Art Challenge, Mrs. Laverty may be contacted by phone, 517.775.0168 or email, lavertydeb@yahoo.com.
Activities and events of the Council may be followed at www.clintoncountyarts.com.