[Press Release] : Festival features youth artwork on promotional materials

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 18, 2006

CONTACT: Kay McCarthy
Cultural Program Specialist
(573) 874-6387

Festival features youth artwork on promotional materials	
								
	(COLUMBIA, MO) - The 15th annual Columbia Festival of the Arts
will bring performing, visual and literary artists to downtown Columbia
Sept. 23- 24.
	Festival 2006 promotional items -- T-shirts, posters, flyers and
buttons -- will highlight the artwork of Columbia Public Schools student
Wei Xue, now a junior at Rock Bridge High School.  Wei is the daughter
of  Xiaoqin Jia and Jianhong Xue.
	Wei created the image while a ninth grade student of Diane
Strotbeck at Jefferson Junior High School. When the artwork was created
the class had just learned how to enlarge images utilizing a grid
method. Wei decided to do a self portrait that looked like an infrared
picture of herself. “I wanted to show others a different way of
looking at people,” she states about her work.
	The image was selected by the Office of Cultural Affairs from
the more than 80 submissions displayed in the 2005 Columbia Festival of
the Arts Youth Art Exhibit. Each year student artwork is featured in an
exhibit located in the lobby of the Boone County Government Center
during the Festival weekend and throughout October. Student artwork to
be featured in 2007 promotional materials will be selected from this
year’s exhibit.	
	The Festival is free and open to the public. It will be held at
the Boone County Courthouse Square and surrounding streets in downtown
Columbia  Sept. 23- 24. Festival hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days.
	For more information, including a map and stage schedules,
consult the special Festival insert in the Columbia Daily Tribune’s
Sept. 21 issue or contact the Office of Cultural Affairs at (573)
874-6386, e-mail Festival at GoColumbiaMo.com or log on to
www.GoColumbiaMo.com (GoWord: GoArtsFestival).

The Columbia Festival of the Arts is a program of the City of Columbia
Office of Cultural Affairs. Financial assistance has been provided by
Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Boone County National Bank, The Callaway
Bank, CenturyTel, Columbia Convention & Visitors Bureau, Columbia Daily
Tribune, Commerce Bank, Dave Griggs’ Flooring America, Days Inn and
Travelodge, Deck the Walls, First National Bank, KBIA 91.3, KOMU
TV8/Mid-Missouri’s CW Network, McDonald’s, MFA Oil, Missouri Arts
Council and Regency Hotel Downtown.

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