Mosaic Arts Festival draws crowd to Community Center
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Holly Varkalis and son Oliver, 6, check out these artistic creations during Saturday’s Mosaic Arts Festival at the Clinton Community Center. - G. Chambers Williams III
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Clinton City Schools art teachers Allison Swanner, left, of Clinton Elementary, and Alyssa Bowlin, of North and South Clinton elementary schools, were on hand as hosts for the Mosaic Arts Festival student art exhibits on Saturday inside the Clinton Community Center. - G. Chambers Williams III
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Young dancers perform on the stage in the parking lot across from the Clinton Community Center during Saturday’s Mosaic Arts Festival. - G. Chambers Williams III
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Tiffany Osborne points out some of the artwork at the Mosaic Arts Festival last Saturday at the Clinton Community Center to her children, Madelyn, 7, and Lillian, 10. - G. Chambers Williams III
Performances by dance troupes and bands on a stage set up in the Clinton Community Center parking lot highlighted this year’s Mosaic Arts Festival, held last Saturday both inside and outside the center on South Hicks Street.
From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., visitors poured through aisles of displays inside the Community Center to see original art created by students from the Clinton City Schools.
Outside, there were arts and crafts booths in the parking lot across the street, and next to the Clinton Public Library.
“I feel like it was just incredible,” Katherine Birkbeck, executive director of Historic downtown Clinton, said Monday of the sixth-annual arts event. “This was definitely our biggest Mosaic yet.”
In the Mosaic Color Run, held outside the Community Center beginning at 9 a.m., “We had 100 more runners than we’ve ever had,” Birkbeck said. “We even had someone from Brazil, and two runners from Maine.
“We spent a lot of money on a big stage this year,” she said. “We wanted the kids in the arts to feel as important as kids in athletics. And having so many kids performing was awesome.”
The main event, coordinated by the two art teachers representing all three Clinton City Schools, featured more than 1,000 pieces of artwork from the city’s schoolchildren posted on display boards inside the Community Center.
This year’s art theme for the students was “The Faces of Clinton,” according to a sign inside the Community Center.
