Wright State University’s School of Fine and Performing Arts hosted an art show for struggling, first-time artists. But their struggle was with tying their shoes, not in their depictions of the recent eclipse and other celestial bodies.
Over 200 Mini University pre-school students participated in a school art project to raise excitement and awareness for the upcoming total solar eclipse. Every classroom at the school participated and students painted images of the sun, moon, clouds, planets and even rockets.
The April 11 exhibit titled ‘A Solar Show’ was curated by Landon Crowell, a sculpture technician in the School of Fine and Performing Arts. Crowell, whose children attend Mini University, was asked to assist the Mini University staff with a name for the project which eventually led to him finding space at the Experimental Gallery inside the Creative Arts Center and curating the art show.
“Maybe this will get some interest in the arts at younger ages,” said Crowell.
Britney Leavelle is the executive director at Mini University. She too hopes the exhibit sparks an interest in art and is planning for field trips to the Robert and Elaine Stein Galleries.
“We want them to see the big art exhibit that’s in the big art building at Wright State,” said Leavelle.
The one-day art show lasted just a few hours but Crowell hopes the experience will impact the children as they grow up, even if they never become artists.
“Just being a person in society that appreciates art is important as well,” said Crowell. More at webapp2.wright.edu/web1/newsr...