Local Students' Artwork on Display at the Booth

Booth Western Art Museum with a reception Thursday opened its annual Bartow County and Cartersville City Schools Elementary Art Exhibit in the Borderlands Gallery. On view through May 12, it features a number of pieces that are representative of the work from our local city and many county elementary schools.

For the fifth year in a row, art teachers from 10 Bartow schools and Cartersville Elementary School have selected the best pieces from their school to be represented in the show. All of the artwork displayed are pieces that have been created by the students, kindergarten through fifth-grade, throughout the 2012-2013 school year.

While selecting only a small number of pieces of artwork from the entire school year is not always a very easy task, art teachers view this annual exhibition as a wonderful way to highlight the hard work and creativity of their students.

Director of Education at Booth Museum Lisa Wheeler, a former art educator, believes it is important to support the talents of the young artists in the community.

"Children need to see and know that their creativity is supported and appreciated. Booth Western Art Museum takes pride in providing a venue to showcase the work of emerging young artists," Wheeler said in a press release. "To have your work hanging in a Smithsonian Institute Affiliate Museum is a fairly large honor; I only hope that perhaps one of these young children will have their work hanging here—or in another art museum—in the future as their passion and talent for art grow."
Booth visitors to during the show will see paintings, collages, clay pieces and more from the students of Cartersville, Adairsville, Allatoona, Cloverleaf, Clear Creek, Euharlee, Hamilton Crossing, Kingston, Mission Road, Pine Log and  Taylorsville elementary schools and Cartersville Primary School.

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