StART It Up! exhibit showcases children’s art

CLAREMONT

A student from Sumner Elementary School works on a mural inspired by a painting by Jaime “Germs” Zacarias during a March 17 class visit to the “Home in Aztlan” exhibit at the Claremont Lewis Museum of Art, part of the museum’s Project ARTstART program. An exhibition of art by students in the ARTstART program will be held May 9-1 at Claremont’s Memorial Park. courtesy of Catherine McIntosh — Claremont Lewis Museum of Art

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From staff reports

For the 14th consecutive year, the high school students of Project ARTstART will curate ARTstART: StART It Up!, an overview exhibition presented by the Claremont Lewis Museum of Art in the Ginger Elliott Exhibition Center in Memorial Park at 840 N. Indian Hill Blvd., Claremont.

The exhibition, running May 9-11, will include works on paper, collage, sculptures and paintings from each of the art units presented to fourth- through sixth-grade classes at Mountain View, Oakmont, Sumner/Danbury, Sycamore and Vista del Valle elementary schools, according to a news release.

ARTstART students will host art-making activities for visitors of all ages 4-6 p.m. May 9, and the exhibition will also be open 6-9 p.m. May 10 and noon-4 p.m. May 11.

Project ARTstART, a Claremont Lewis Museum of Art’s arts education program directed by Rich Deely, trains high school students, working with college mentors, to provide exhibit-based art lessons for elementary school students.

In the project, launched in the fall of 2011, college mentors train high school students to offer multi-visit arts appreciation lessons to elementary students in their classrooms and in local museum settings.

ARTstART’s roster now totals more than 70 high school students and five project assistant interns who enable ARTstART to serve all fourth- through sixth-grade classes at Mountain View, Oakmont, Sumner/Danbury, Sycamore and Vista del Valle elementary schools with student-planned arts appreciation activities and field trips, according to the news release.

ARTstARTers also serve approximately 125 students a month with a series of art-making workshops for students enrolled in after-care programs and hundreds more at community festivals and Family Day workshops offered at the Claremont Lewis Museum of Art the first Sunday of every month, according to the news release.

For information about Project ARTstART, go to clmoa.org/education-programs/artstart.

For information about the StART It Up! exhibition, go to clmoa.org/exhibit/start-it-up-student-art-exhibition.