This year SculptureWalk is getting help from youth in the community to collaborate on another event for the community.
Two high school arts students from Stanley Humphries Secondary School, Emily Plotnikoff and Kayla Keraiff, haved teamed up to challenge two Grade 4 divisions at Twin Rivers Elementary to a poster contest.
The winning poster will be realized into a large tile mosaic to be displayed permanently downtown. The student that was juried as the best will also win a $100 grand prize.
The students were inspired by Angus Glass of the Fish and Wildlife Compensation Program of BC Hydro when he gave talks to Ms. DeMao and Lesley Mozak’s classes about fish and wildlife at the confluence of the Kootenay and Columbia rivers in early June.
Emily and Kayla are being mentored to jury the posters and get trained on how to lay tile by another community volunteer, P.J. Isnor.
The winner will be announced next week. The location for a large 5’x10’ tile mosaic will be situated downtown for everyone to enjoy.
The sponsors for the project are the Castlegar and District Wildlife Association and BC Hydro. Just another thing the Castlegar Sculpturewalk Program is doing to inspire the whole community to partipate in public art and make Castlegar a better place to live in.
/Submitted by SculptureWalk