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Walk Through 2012

The 6th annual Walk Through of the Department of Art is scheduled for Wednesday,

May 9th, 4 to 7PM in all areas of Sprowls Hall and Robertshaw (Sculpture and Ceramics).

Walk Through is an open-studio celebration of selected student work from the year.

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Harmony in the Community: Music Recitals at the Youth Arts Celebration

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Jane Potter Baumer, a voice teacher who instructs at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and in her private home studio, first helped organize a student music recital for the Indiana Arts Council Youth Arts Celebration in the year 2010.  This year she  with an even greater number of students and a wider range of vocal and instrumental pieces registered to perform. Read the rest of this entry

Showing What Art Can Do at Youth Arts Celebration: Visual Art

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View student visual art works in the Indiana Mall May 1-6.

Trish Dodson works as an art teacher at multiple schools in Indiana County.  She has been involved in the Youth Arts

Celebration since its inception, and like many other art teachers in Indiana school districts, she will be featuring much of her students’ artwork in this year’s event.  However, her role as an art educator is slightly different from others.  For 13 years she has been giving art lessons to students with special needs, instructing courses in life skills classes at various schools in the area. Read the rest of this entry

Trashion Fashion Show Photos!

Check back on this post as we continue to update you with photos from the 2012 Trashion show!

Want to know more about who was involved in Trashion 2012? Click Here.

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2012 Youth Arts Celebration: Dance

As the size and scope of the Youth Arts Celebration continues to expand each year, the range of art genres present in the festival grows as well.  More and more students studying different creative disciplines have the opportunity to present their work to a public audience from around the county. Read the rest of this entry

Youth Arts Celebration 2012 is Headed Your Way!

Visual Art Work by a studentThe Indiana Arts Council‘s 5th annual Youth Arts Celebration event planing is well underway!  This year’s event on May 1st-6th will take place at a number of different venues throughout the area, such as the Indiana Mall, Zion Lutheran Church, Indiana Junior High School, and others.  The festival will feature student works in drama, literature, dance, music, and visual art, including exhibits and live performances. Read the rest of this entry

A Taste of Trashion!

So…What is Trashion?

The 2012 IAC Trashion Show: Couture Garbáge is less than two weeks away, and final arrangements are being made by all involved groups and individuals to make this unique fundraising event possible.  With March 30th fast approaching, we would like to take some time to reflect on what Trashion is about, and acknowledge the contributions of those who have put their time and energy into planning, designing, and recruiting for this exciting occasion for the last few months.

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“Under the Canopy”: The Contributions of Steve Loar and his IUP Art Students to Trashion 2012

Steven Loar, a professor in IUP’s department of art, has been working with his teaching assistants and the students of his Three-Dimensional Design class to construct numerous beautiful sculptural pieces that will be used and featured in this year’s IAC 2012 Trashion Show: Couture Garbáge.  The sculptures will follow the theme, “Under the Canopy: Impressions of the Amazonian Rainforest”, will consist of numerous intricate pieces of sculpture that can be worn, modeled, and displayed at the fashion show.  The sculptures will be constructed entirely out of post-consumer plastic waste products, and will refer to a certain kind of animal and its surrounding environment in the rainforest without relying on a literal representation.

In addition to constructing sculptural pieces to be featured in the fashion show, the Three Dimensional Design class will be presenting a larger sculptural piece that has been an ongoing communal project for Steve and his students for the past five years.   The reef, made entirely out of post-consumer plastics, was first constructed during a trip that Steve took with his class to Andros Island in the Bahamas, where they collected trash from several miles of coastline.  Since then the piece has been expanded upon by the students of each subsequent Three Dimensional Design class, as well as by students who have participated in One Island trips (see links at the bottom of this article for more information on One Island).  The reef will be featured in the IAC 2012 Trashion Show as a main scenic piece for the runway.  Steve says that the contributions to the reef this year depart from the work done by students in previous years by having students make pieces that can “stand on their own and [still] become part of a larger landscape”.

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Trashion Designers’ Creative Visions are Starting to Take Shape

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