StART It Up! with ART in the Park
For Immediate Release
May 13, 2024
Press Contact: Catherine McIntosh
909 626-1386, cell 713 829-9338
Project ARTstART, the Claremont Lewis Museum of Art’s signature arts education program, directed by Rich Deely, trains high school students, working with college mentors, to provide exhibit-based art lessons for elementary school students. By bringing high-quality, art appreciation classes and activities to the Claremont schools, we hope to inspire students, promote understanding of the arts, and highlight Claremont’s rich artistic legacy.
For the thirteenth consecutive year, the high school students of Project ARTstART will curate ARTstART: StART It Up!, an overview exhibition that includes works on paper, collage, sculptures, and paintings from each of the art units presented to 4th-6th grade classes at Mountain View, Oakmont, Sumner/Danbury, Sycamore and Vista del Valle elementary schools.
As part of this year’s exhibition, ARTstARTers will host art-making activities for visitors of all ages at ART in the Park on Friday afternoon May 24 from 4:15-5:45 p.m. in Memorial Park at 840 N. Indian Hill Blvd., Claremont. The StART It Up! exhibition, presented by the Claremont Lewis Museum of Art, will be on view in the nearby Claremont Heritage Ginger Elliott Exhibition Center. The exhibition will also be open on Saturday, May 25 and Sunday, May 26 from noon to 4:00 p.m.
ART in the Park
What: Project ARTstART high school students will lead art-making activities for all ages. The StART It Up! exhibition, presented by the Claremont Lewis Museum of Art, will be on view in the nearby Claremont Heritage Ginger Elliott Exhibition Center.
When: Friday May 24, from 4:15-5:45 p.m. The exhibition will also be open on Saturday, May 25 and Sunday, May 26 from noon to 4:00 p.m.
Where: Memorial Park, 840 N. Indian Hill Blvd., Claremont
Event Website: https://clmoa.org/artstart-4-6th-grade-art-exhibition
About Project ARTstART
Launched in the fall of 2011, Project ARTstART recruits high school and college students as teachers and mentors. These “ARTstARTers” are trained as docents by college mentors to offer multi-visit arts appreciation lessons to elementary students in their classrooms and in local museum settings. ARTstARTers learn how to plan presentations that employ Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) and interact with art educators, artists, curators, and students from The Claremont Colleges.
ARTstART’s roster now totals over seventy Claremont High School students and five Project Assistant interns who enable ARTstART to serve all 4-6th grade classes at Mountain View, Oakmont, Sumner/Danbury, Sycamore and Vista del Valle elementary schools with student-planned and presented arts appreciation activities and field trips. In addition, ARTstARTers serve approximately 125 students a month with our AfterARTs series of art-making workshops for students enrolled in CUSD BLAST or ASES after-care. Hundreds more children are served by ARTStation at community festivals and free Family Day workshops, which are offered at the Museum on the first Sunday of every month.
Project ARTstART is produced solely by the Claremont Lewis Museum of Art in partnership with the Claremont Unified School District (CUSD) and provides programming for students from eight participating schools: Chaparral, Condit, Mountain View, Oakmont, Sumner/Danbury, Sycamore, and Vista del Valle elementary schools, along with Claremont High School.
The program is funded by generous donations from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture; Ruth & Joseph C. Reed Foundation for the Arts; Children’s Foundation of America; Claremont Kiwanis Foundation; Scripps Fine Arts Foundation; an allotment from the CUSD Arts Grant, Claremont Rotary; as well as CLMA Board members and many dedicated community donors.
Partner programming for this year was provided by American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA); Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College; Claremont Heritage; The Claremont Colleges Services; dA Center for the Arts, Pomona; The Peggy Phelps Gallery at Claremont Graduate University Studio Arts; Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at Scripps College; The Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation for Arts and Crafts, and The Susan Sontag Center for Creative Collaboration ‘The HIVE’ at Pomona College.
For more information on Project ARTstART, go to https://clmoa.org/education-programs/artstart
Photo Opportunity:
ARTstARTers will be installing the 2024 StART It Up! exhibition on Friday, May 17 from 4:15-5:45 p.m. Please contact Rich Deely, 914 330-1740, for further details.