“We have a Georgetown frog!” say Georgetown College freshmen volunteers.
On August 22nd, the Scott County Arts Consortium and SCAC/ArtWorks, represented by Jan AtLee, welcomed a group of college freshmen to the Arts & Cultural Center as part of their freshmen orientation and community service day. They packed a lot of work and a lot of fun into just two hours.
The largest mold being stored in the historic jail basement was finally poured by this great group of young people learning about their new community, helping each other, and volunteering to help others. The students will return to the Arts & Cultural Center’s upstairs north studio to paint this great frog with glaze. It will be fired in the electric kiln at ArtWorks, where SCAC/ArtWorks Programming classes are held. The frog will be on display during the Festival of the Horse and the Arts Weekend events so the students can bring friends and family to see their clay creation.
The volunteers got an overview of the Arts & Cultural Center, historic preservation, restoration, renovation, and modernization to support our cultural heritage and arts education in Scott County. They were introduced to the difference between original clay creations and ceramic reproduction process to orient them to their morning’s volunteer task: to help prepare shelving for the hundreds of ceramic molds donated to SCAC/ArtWorks Programming by Mr. Henry Thomas. Volunteer opportunities, classes and events for the Arts & Cultural Center and ArtWorks Programming were presented as possibilities for future college group and family activities.
The college crew brushed, vacuumed, painted and stacked fifty-six cinderblocks for our ceramic mold storage shelves. Other tasks carried out by this wonderful group were to carry tables down from the second floor of the Arts & Cultural Center to the jail basement; and to move ceramic art pieces from one floor to another in preparation for the next exhibit which opens on September 7: “United in Art” featuring Shirley Smith, Janice Gray, and Pamela Clegg. We owe much to this crew, and greatly appreciate all the help! Thanks so much! We hope to see you all real soon!
