UCS Hosts Annual Art Fair This Week

Utica Community Schools this week will present its annual K-12 Fine Arts Festival, located at Ewell Elementary at 23 Mile and Shelby Roads.

The annual festival will feature more than 5,000 pieces of student art work from every UCS school.

Gallery hours for the free event will be from 6:30-8 p.m. on Monday, April 18; 1 to 4 p.m. and 5 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, April 19; and from 5 to 8 p.m. on Thursday and Friday, April 20-22.

An opening reception will be held at 7 p.m. tonight. A free shuttle to the reception will be available from Switzer Elementary, Wiley Elementary and Eisenhower High School.

Students will be showcasing both 2D and 3D pieces, which include drawings in pencil, pastel, ink, paintings in tempera, acrylic, and oil, traditional and digital photography, short films, PSA's, video game design, fibers ranging in fashion to weavings, relief and in the round sculptures and newly made ceramic pieces.

Each of the past four years, more than 10,000 patrons visited the art show.