High
School Artists Show Their Works at The Dubuque Museum of
Art in May
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The
Art of High School
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Videocam by Charlie Ellis, Photography and Segment Edited
by Gary Olsen
May
20, 2000
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 ubuque
high school art students from the public and parochial schools
got the opportunity of their young careers this spring as they
were invited to display their work at the prestigious Dubuque
Museum of Art. For some artists, it may take a lifetime of achievement
or prodigious talent to be displayed in a museum of such caliber,
and that's precisely why these students were invited now... to
get a taste of success that may serve to inspire a career in the
arts. And it couldn't have come at a more opportune time.
  This
show coincided with the heavily promoted and attended DubuqueFest,
the annual festival of the performing and visual arts that is
held in Dubuque in mid to late May. Plus, the museum is across
from Washington Park, one of the main venues for the celebration.
This meant more traffic and more opportunities for people to see
just what our high school art students are capable of. The show,
by the way, generated so much enthusiasm, over 1,000 visitors
attended the show in just a few days.
The show
featured everything from sculpture to painting, from photography
to printmaking, from the traditional to the avant-garde. Nelson
Britt, Dubuque Museum of Art Director, was positively ebullient
over the quality and variety of talent on display. We accompanied
him as he toured the exhibit and chose some key representative
pieces to talk about. The video segments we feature is about 13
minutes and it is a virtual tour of the show including a gallery
walk with Nelson Britt whose comments about key pieces in the
show would be very valuable to any aspiring artist.
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