City's first 'Art Walk' shows off the works of budding artists
NORWICH – Art teachers and students in the Norwich City School District will be taking advantage of vacant city storefronts for the use of the first Norwich City Youth Art Walk from 3 to 5 p.m. on Friday.
The Youth Art Walk is a competition in which art students from Gibson Primary, Perry Browne Elementary, and the Norwich Middle and High Schools show off their work in the windows of empty storefronts in the downtown area. Spectators and local passersby will be able to vote on their favorite works from each city school and place their votes in ballot boxes at participating merchants.
“As Visual Art Educators, the importance of sharing student work with the public is paramount with the community known for its support of the visual arts,” said Norwich High School art teacher Wayne Franklin in a letter seeking support from the Norwich Merchants Association.
The Youth Art Walk will continue on the first Friday of April, May and June with event hours possibly extending as daylight permits. While it’s a small operation this year, applicable only to schools in the city district, ambitions are to include other Chenango County districts in the future, Franklin said.
The Art Walk is a great way to kick-off Youth Art Month, traditionally celebrated in March, he went on to say. The event also preludes the Chenango County Council of the Arts’ Artistic Discovery exhibit opening from 5 to 7 p.m. on the same day. Artistic Discovery spotlights art work of students all over the county. Winners of Artistic Discovery go on to compete again in Utica for the chance to hang their work in the nation’s capitol as representation of the 24th congressional district.
“I really wanted to tie the Art Walk in with Artistic Discovery and Youth Art Month ... This is a great way to celebrate the start of it,” said Franklin.
“We’re putting the artwork in those storefronts now and I’m sure people are looking at it, but if we start pushing a little more and promoting a little more, it might get more people to look and get more enthusiasm and more interest in what the students are doing here in the district,” he explained. “It’s a great thing for the kids and an opportunity for all us. We don’t want to see empty storefronts, but if it’s there, we can use it.”
Art work will be shown in the windows of storefronts once occupied by the Salvation Army on 19 S. Broad St., the Heritage Furniture Store at 44 - 46 N. Broad St., and the former location of Made in Chenango on 20 S. Broad St.
The Youth Art Walk is a competition in which art students from Gibson Primary, Perry Browne Elementary, and the Norwich Middle and High Schools show off their work in the windows of empty storefronts in the downtown area. Spectators and local passersby will be able to vote on their favorite works from each city school and place their votes in ballot boxes at participating merchants.
“As Visual Art Educators, the importance of sharing student work with the public is paramount with the community known for its support of the visual arts,” said Norwich High School art teacher Wayne Franklin in a letter seeking support from the Norwich Merchants Association.
The Youth Art Walk will continue on the first Friday of April, May and June with event hours possibly extending as daylight permits. While it’s a small operation this year, applicable only to schools in the city district, ambitions are to include other Chenango County districts in the future, Franklin said.
The Art Walk is a great way to kick-off Youth Art Month, traditionally celebrated in March, he went on to say. The event also preludes the Chenango County Council of the Arts’ Artistic Discovery exhibit opening from 5 to 7 p.m. on the same day. Artistic Discovery spotlights art work of students all over the county. Winners of Artistic Discovery go on to compete again in Utica for the chance to hang their work in the nation’s capitol as representation of the 24th congressional district.
“I really wanted to tie the Art Walk in with Artistic Discovery and Youth Art Month ... This is a great way to celebrate the start of it,” said Franklin.
“We’re putting the artwork in those storefronts now and I’m sure people are looking at it, but if we start pushing a little more and promoting a little more, it might get more people to look and get more enthusiasm and more interest in what the students are doing here in the district,” he explained. “It’s a great thing for the kids and an opportunity for all us. We don’t want to see empty storefronts, but if it’s there, we can use it.”
Art work will be shown in the windows of storefronts once occupied by the Salvation Army on 19 S. Broad St., the Heritage Furniture Store at 44 - 46 N. Broad St., and the former location of Made in Chenango on 20 S. Broad St.
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