StART It Up! Student Art Exhibition
Ginger Elliott Center, 840 N. Indian Hill Blvd in Memorial Park with free admission
Friday, May 9, 4-6 pm
Saturday, May 10, 6-9 pm
Sunday, May 11, 12-4 pm
ABOUT PROJECT ARTstART
For the fourteenth consecutive year, the high school students of Project ARTstART will curate 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.
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.
The program is funded by generous donations from the Ruth & Joseph C. Reed Foundation for the Arts; City of Claremont, Community Based Organizational Grant; Claremont Sunrise Rotary; Claremont Kiwanis Foundation; Scripps Fine Arts Foundation; as well as CLMA Board members and many dedicated community donors.