B.L.A.K.E.  2002

 

Best Literature and Art Kids’ Exhibition

 

First annual art and literary fair for home-schooled students

 

TIMETABLE

Saturday, September 28, 2002, Toledo Museum of Art, Community Gallery

 

9:00 a.m.          Students register and set up their exhibits.

 

10:00 p.m.        Public viewing (Students may, but are not required to, stay at their exhibits during all or part of the public viewing period to talk with visitors about their work.)

 

3:30 p.m.          Puppet Show, “Orphans’ Travels,” by The Young Writers’ Lunch Club

 

4:15 p.m.          Awards ceremony hosted by Bill Werner, Art and Literary Fair Director (All students will receive certificates of recognition.  All students attending the awards ceremony will be eligible for door prizes.  Lori Foshag, Community Arts Coordinator, will give a short talk about resources available to home-schooling families at the Resource Center.)

 

5:00 p.m.          Optional tour of the Resource Center.

 

5:00 p.m.          Students may remove their exhibits until 6:00 p.m.. (Exhibits may not be removed before 5:00 p.m.)

 

OBJECTIVES

The objectives of B.L.A.K.E. 2002 are (1) to encourage children to experiment with art and writing and (2) to provide an opportunity for them to showcase their best artistic and literary work and to learn from what other artists and writers have done.

 

NAME

The acronym for the art and literary fair (B.L.A.K.E.) refers to William Blake (1757-1827), the English Romantic poet, painter, engraver, and printer.  The fair’s tiger logo, which incorporates the poet’s name, is suggested by his poem “The Tyger,” which begins:

Tyger Tyger. burning bright,

In the forests of the night:

What immortal hand or eye,

Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

 

EXHIBITORS

In addition to the Young Artists Lunch Club, this year’s art and literary fair has forty-four exhibitors (twenty-one boys and twenty-three girls in grades kindergarten through eight, and tenth and eleventh grades) displaying 155 works of literature and art, encompassing picture books, poetry, short stories (including illustrated ones), paintings and drawings, photography, sculpture, textiles, and mixed media.  The exhibitors come from twenty-two families from eleven communities in three Michigan counties (Lenawee, Monroe, and Wayne) and three Ohio counties (Lucas, Sandusky, and Wood). 

 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

As the Director of the Art and Literary Fair, I want to thank the following people and organizations for their generous support of the science fair:

• The students who showed interest and effort by entering the art and literary fair, without whom there would be no B.L.A.K.E. 2002 (See their names on the other side of this sheet.)
• The parents of the students who entered the art and literary fair, for encouraging them and working with them
• The members of the Young Writers’ Lunch Club who performed today
• The parents of students who made cash contributions
• The organizations that contributed prizes—Earthworks Studio (Toledo, Ohio), Monart School of Drawing (Taylor, Michigan), and The Toledo Museum of Art
• The volunteer helpers
• The Museum’s Lori Foshag and Marilyn Mavis, Resource Center Manager, who arranged for students to showcase their works of literature and art
• The Toledo Museum of Art, for providing the facility for the art and literary fair