Spotlight: Jekyll Island Arts Association
The Jekyll Island Arts Association is pleased to host the Eighth Annual Glynn County High School Students’ Juried Art Show. Running from April 22 - May 5 at Goodyear Cottage in Jekyll’s Historic District, the exhibit will feature some of the best of our students’ work. The show is open to all high school age students in Glynn County who are enrolled in a formal art program in the County’s public or private schools. This year the participating schools are Glynn Academy, Frederica Academy and Brunswick High School. Cash prizes and ribbons will be awarded at this ‘for exhibit only’ show, with none of the artwork being for sale. Stopping in to visit David Veater’s Glynn Academy art class not only provided a glimpse of the students painting or sketching, but also a look at some of the wonderful projects that will be in the upcoming show. One eye-catching project was an array of realistic looking cardboard clothing, made using a technique called recto verso - meaning that both the front 
and back are realistically completed. Caitlin Barrow, a senior at Glynn Academy, likes the freedom provided to interpret set programs at her school. She says, “everyone works well together and is open to others’ ideas and art interpretations.”
Show coordinators for the Arts Association, Jim and Theresa LaPean, encourage the community, the participating students, their teachers, families and friends to come and share in the excitement of a variety of mediums on display. This exhibit is always an exciting opportunity to see what these talented teens have accomplished in the past year.
Everyone is welcome to view this exhibit by our young local artists and to attend the opening reception at Goodyear on April 27 from 1-3pm. Admission is free at the gallery and the shop where regular hours are Monday - Friday, noon - 4pm and weekends from 10 - 4pm. Call 635-3920 for more information.
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