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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 17, 2008 ) - The 17th annual Columbia Festival
of the Arts will bring performing, visual and literary artists to
downtown Columbia on Sept. 27-28.

This year, festival promotional items -- T-shirts, posters, flyers and
buttons -- will highlight the artwork of Columbia Public Schools student
Carrie Stephenson. A 2008 graduate of Rock Bridge High School,
Stephenson is attending the University of Missouri and is pursuing a
degree in art education. She is the daughter of William and Barbara
Stephenson.

Stephenson created the featured image while a junior and a student in
Sharyn Hyatt-Wade’s advanced placement art class at Rock Bridge. At
the time, the class assignment was to create a visually compelling work
based on a subject that the student was passionate about. Stephenson
chose musical instruments given her involvement in Rock Bridge’s band.

Stephenson’s art was selected from the 133 submissions from 13
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 through October. 

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. 27-28. 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. 25 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
Boone County National Bank, CenturyTel, Columbia Convention & Visitors
Bureau Tourism Development Fund, Columbia Daily Tribune, Columbia Home
and Lifestyle Magazine, Commerce Bank, Dave Griggs’ Flooring America,
Days Inn and Travelodge, Deck the Walls, KBIA 91.3, KOMU 8 and
Mid-Missouri CW, MFA Oil, Missouri Arts Council, Mid-America Arts
Alliance, National Endowment for the Arts and the Regency Hotel
Downtown.

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