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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

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

Festival features youth artwork on promotional materials

COLUMBIA, MO (September 28, 2007) - The 16th annual Columbia Festival
of the Arts will bring performing, visual and literary artists to
downtown Columbia on Sept. 29-30.

This year, festival promotional items -- T-shirts, posters, flyers and
buttons -- will highlight the artwork of Columbia Public Schools student
Danny Giles. Danny, A 2007 graduate of Hickman High School, plans to
attend William Woods University in Fulton, Mo. He is the son of Sharon
Giles.

Danny created the image while a junior and a student in Julia Grant’s
advanced placement art class at Hickman. At the time, the class
assignment was to create a study in image juxtaposition. Using pen and
ink, Danny focused on design and aesthetics as he created his image
saying: “I created the grid which captured the other small elements
and then placed the flowing form of the moth over the grid where it cast
its own outline. The significance was that the moth was not contained by
any rigid lines.” 

The image was selected from the 147 submissions from 14 Columbia
schools displayed in the last year’s Columbia Festival of the Arts
Youth Art Exhibit. The exhibit of student artwork is displayed annually
in the lobby of the Boone County Government Center starting the Festival
weekend and stays up thru the month of October. Student art work to be
featured in 2008 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 on Sept. 29-30. Festival hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. both
days.

For specific performance times and stage locations, consult the special
festival insert in the Columbia Daily Tribune’s Sept. 27 issue, call
the Office of Cultural Affairs at 573-874-6386, e-mail
Festival at GoColumbiaMo.com or log on to www.GoColumbiaMo.com (search:
arts festival).

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, CenturyTel,
Columbia Convention & Visitors Bureau Tourism Development Fund, Columbia
Daily Tribune, Commerce Bank, Dave Griggs’ Flooring America, Days Inn
and Travelodge, Deck the Walls, KBIA 91.3, KOMU TV8/Mid-Missouri’s CW
Network, MFA Oil, Missouri Arts Council, Mid-America Arts Alliance,
National Endowment for the Arts, Regency Hotel Downtown and State Farm
Insurance.

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