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ART
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ARTS IN EDUCATION INITIATIVE
EMPTY
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5K
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2005
FESTIVAL DESIGN |
“Life
without industry is guilt. Industry without art is brutality.”
–
John Ruskin, social commentator, 1819-1900
A regular offering through the Marion Arts Festival is our “Arts
in Education Initiative,” a program through which the festival
facilitates guest artists in the classroom, working with –
and inspiring – students at all grade levels.
During the 2004-05 school year, art teachers throughout the Marion
Independent and Linn-Mar school districts have chosen to introduce
their students to intensive folk art education. Professionals working
in the traditional arts, from both the nearby Amana Colonies and
around Eastern Iowa, have been demonstrating their skills, teaching
their history, and working their magic to interest students in folk
art means and ways.
Students will create and stitch quilts, weave baskets from a variety
of materials indigenous to Eastern Iowa, and learn to smith metal
as part of their folk art education under the instruction of their
classroom guest artists. Then, on festival day, they will exhibit
their work to 10,000 admiring festival attendees. Also planned for
the festival event is a demonstration by working folk artists, as
part of our partnership with the Amana Arts Guild.
Sponsoring this year’s “Arts in Education Initiative”
is Lifetouch National School Studio. Students, teachers, parents,
and the community appreciate their generosity toward the facilitation
of this program.
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