Taft Museum’s ARC Program Encourages Young Artists
Published Date: February 28, 2024
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Artwork by high school students participating in the Taft Museum of Art’s Artists Reaching Classrooms program (ARC) is on display through March 31at The Annex on Pendleton Street in Over the Rhine. The opening of the display was held April 18. More than 200 students at 11 high schools entered pieces in the competition.
ARC has been enriching the livers of students in the Cincinnati area for over 30 years, at no cost to schools, teachers or students. ARC is part of the Taft's robust Youth, School and Family education program. The Dater Foundation made its first grant to the Taft in 1996 specifically in support of ARC. Overall, the Foundation has made 34 grants totaling more than $1.7 million for Taft programs and facilities, including the Dater Education Room.
ARC provides an immersive, educational experience for Cincinnati area high school students interested in the visual arts. As part of the program, each school participates in a variety of activities including museum visits, local artist classroom visits, and artist studio visits. The program also introduces high school students to artists in their community and multiple career paths in the cultural sector.
For 2023-24 school year, students were asked to create a work of art in response to the ARC experience and this year’s theme “Wonder.”
Students were asked to think about their artwork as an expression of Wonder. Students were given the prompt to encourage personal exploration: Wonder being defined as the following: (1) A feeling of surprise mingled with admiration, caused by something beautiful, unexpected, unfamiliar or inexplicable and (2) to desire to be curious to know something.
Click once on photo below to enlarge ... pictured is second place winner Cordelia Holland, School for Creative and Performing Arts. First place winner was Jackson Mundstock from Oak Hills High School and third place winner was Wilder Cabrera from Aiken High School.
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