The Arts Education and Access Fund began funding arts in our City’s elementary schools ten years ago, during the 2013-14 school year. Current 10th Graders were in Kindergarten when the fund began and this spring the City Arts Program is celebrating the positive impact access to the arts has had on their schooling.
As part of the celebration, the City Arts Program is exhibiting a collaboration between Rieke Elementary 5th Graders and Cleveland High School sculpture students on the second floor of the Portland Building. The collaboration is based on the “Exquisite Corpse” drawing game created by the Surrealist artists of the early 1900’s. One artist begins the drawing with the head, then folds it over passes to the next artist to draw the torso. The paper is then folded over and passed to a third artist who completes the drawing with legs. Rieke Elementary students added a new dimension to the game by passing their drawings to Cleveland High School sculpture students who turned the drawings into sculptures.
The exhibit opens on April 4th with a reception from 5:00-6:30pm and will run through June.