Student Organizes Fundraiser for Elm Street Cultural Arts Village

A Woodstock High School student is using her senior project to help transform the Elm Street Cultural Arts Village vision from a dream to a reality.

Make Your Mark for the Arts! will take place Saturday, Feb. 28 in downtown Woodstock at the Reeves House, which is situated along Elm Street at Market Street.

The event will serve as a fundraiser to benefit the restoration of the Reeves House, the key component of the Elm Street Cultural Arts Village. The house will be renovated into an art gallery and would be used as space for visual art instructional classes, studio for art pieces culinary teaching.

Senior Madison McColl is coordinating the event as her senior project, a requirement for graduating seniors at Cherokee County high schools that exposes them to a variety of possible career choices.

The day’s events will feature a live music, food, drinks and buckets of paint and painting supplies for all participants to express their inner artist by painting together on large pieces of plywood.

There will be unique and different themes for each piece of plywood such as words/happy thoughts or metaphors relating to art; flowers and fauna; a splatter paint piece; and a children’s only piece. These pieces of community created art will then be showcased as part of the Elm Street Cultural Arts Village.

Live music will be provided by local Woodstock band Four Shores on the Resurgens Orthopaedics Community Stage. Each participant will donate $10 and receive food, drinks and their opportunity to Make Your Mark for the Arts!

Festivities run 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., rain or shine. Ample parking is available all around downtown Woodstock. Sponsorship opportunities are available for local restaurants and businesses.

For more information, email Madison McColl at scooterga@yahoo.com.

Photo credits: Elm Street Arts