UCS to host one of region’s largest student art festival

Utica Community Schools will present its annual K-12 Fine Arts Festival March 18 through March 20, located at Rose Kidd Elementary School, 38397 Gladstone Drive.

The festival will feature nearly 5,000 pieces of student artwork.

“The talent and creativity of UCS student artists will be on full display for our community during this annual celebration,” Superintendent Dr. Christine Johns said. “Each day, our teachers inspire students to express themselves and reach their full potential as artists.”

Gallery hours for the free event will be from 6 to 8 p.m. on Monday, March 18; 1 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, March 19; and from 1 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, March 20.

For the March 18 opening night, a free shuttle to the festival will be available from Stevenson High School.

Students will display both two-dimensional and three-dimensional pieces of artwork, which include drawings in pencil, pen, marker, oil pastel, soft chalk pastel, ink, mixed media, and paintings in tempera, acrylic and oil.

Guests will see traditional and digital photography, short films, public service announcements and video game design projects. Art will also include fibers ranging in functional fashion to weavings, relief and in-the-round sculptures, as well as, hand-built to wheel-thrown ceramic vessels and pieces.

More than 10,000 patrons annually visit what is now one of the region’s largest student art shows.

Source: Utica Community Schools

Dr. Christine Johns, Superintendent of Schools

Http://www.uticak12.org