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FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS 2024
The Melrose Area Arts Council sponsored their first “Festival of the Arts” April 29 – May 3 to celebrate the arts in our school and community. The community was able to view exhibits on display at the Melrose City Center and Freeport State Bank. Art exhibits by the students were on display at the Elementary and High School Libraries all week. There were performances of music and speech for the students at the school during the day and after school for the public. Quilts were on display at the Senior Activity Center, located in the lower level of the Melrose City Center with lessons and demos about quilting.
We plan to make this an annual event as it was a huge success displaying creative talent and bringing our community together. We received much positive feedback!
What people are saying…
- The City Center display, both upstairs and downstairs, was wonderful! Many adults have no way to let the community see their talents. Please continue to “show off” the works of small-town America in Melrose.
- I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the piece titles HOME. The colors and use of keys on the frame was brilliant!
- There is a great variety of beautiful artwork!
- My son loved having his face painted! Beautiful art.
- Quilts were beautiful. Very talented ladies. crafts upstairs very nice. Paintings were beautiful. Hope you can do it again next year!
- What a great event for our community! Hope this happens again! Thank you.
- The quilt display was AweMazing! I really appreciated being able to walk around them to see up close their beauty and layout. Loved all the quits. What talented ladies. The Owl Quilt was my favorite!
- Nice job of display with quilts. Beautiful quilts!
- SO nice to see so much talent!
- Thank you for sharing this much talent!
- Wonderful display of quilts and art!
- Such gifted and talented people. Every time I pass by, I see something new. The pieces are all so beautiful!
- It was all good. Lots of talent.
- Love, love, love it all! Very beautiful and amazing. Such talented people.
- This is so GREAT! What I’ve seen has been and Explosion of Joy!!
