Children’s Exhibit Opens at TIAC
CLAYTON, NY (April 23, 2021) – The Thousand Islands Arts Center (TIAC) is excited to announce Winter into Spring: Creations of TIAC’s After School Arts Kids, a new exhibition currently on display in the Trimble Gallery at the Thousand Islands Arts Center.
Leslie Rowland, TIAC’s executive director, said: “One of the silver linings to this pandemic year has been the creative outlet TIAC has provided for our area’s youth. With so many children learning remotely, and on screens for long stretches at a time, our After School Arts program gave the kids (and their parents!) an opportunity to break from that sometimes onerous schedule, get out of the house, and let their creative juices flow! We are especially grateful for the annual support we receive to offer these programs, and also scholarships if needed.”
Led by local artist and certified teacher Shannon Walter, TIAC had 23 kids join partake in its eight-week spring After School Arts session which began February 23 and ended April 23. The classroom space was rearranged to allow for physical distancing and all other CDC and NYS guidelines were enforced. Projects ranged from learning about and painting the planets, to creating 3-D pet sculptures, painting landscapes modeled in the style of Irish artist JP Rooney, collaging, and origami. The kids also enjoyed a guest speaker, Lauren Eggleston, Save the River’s program coordinator, for two of the weeks. Lauren taught the students about arctic animals, and they then went on to paint and collage their favorite artic animal.
Funding for TIAC’s Youth Programming is generously provided by the Leonard C. & Mildred F. Ferguson Foundation; from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and administered by the St. Lawrence County Arts Council; and by the RBC Foundation.
The exhibition is on display through May 25, and the public is invited at no charge.