Students to display award-winning art at Chole?s
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First, Motlow students will be participating in the fourth outing of ?Riverside Retrospection,? a tour of Warren County history which is a fundraiser for Families in Crisis and the Southern Museum and Galleries of Photography, Culture and History. Tour groups will be leaving every 15 minutes from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday. Admission is $8 per person, with children 10 and under free.
In addition, the school will be displaying some of the award-winning art created by students at Chole?s Art Gallery and Studio this Sunday from 2-4 p.m.
Motlow psychology professor Jean Williams says the school is pleased to participate once again in the Riverside Retrospection, where students dress in period costumes and portray actual individuals from Warren County?s history who are buried in Riverside Cemetery.
Some of the notable personalities to be featured include Jesse Walling, poet Lucy Virginia French, photographer William S. ?Dad? Lively and Col. John Savage. Historic Falcon Rest owners George and Charlien McGlothin will even reprise their roles as Clay and Mary Faulkner for the event, roles they have played many times in their celebrated Murder at the Mansion shows.
Families in Crisis executive director Tammie Gribble says the tour is quite informative for anyone new to the community, and a treat for anyone who is interested in Warren County history.
?There?s a feeling of history, a feeling of what we have here in our community,? Gribble said. ?A huge part of our history can be found here in this cemetery.?
There will be tour guides for each group who will provide an overview of the historic cemetery, and Gribble says she hopes there will be an added attraction.
?The dogwoods should be blooming by then,? she said.
The exhibit at Chole?s will present a rather unique form of artwork by Motlow students. It will feature framed or mounted collages utilizing a number of assembled jigsaw puzzles to create a unified whole based on a chosen theme. Two of the pieces have won first place in a state-wide art competition sponsored by the honor society, Phi Theta Kappa.
Charlotte Oliver?s piece based on 9/11 won last year, while Josh White?s world architecture themed collage won first place this year. The pair was in competition with 14 chapters from across the state.
Williams and the students got the idea after visiting a similar exhibit of ?Pop Art? at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville featuring Red Grooms, who was born in Music City. The trip encouraged the students to try puzzle collages.
?Charlotte?s was the first puzzle we made,? Williams said. ?It was a learning experience.?
Oliver agreed.
?I don?t think there was anyone in the group who thought there was a chance of us winning,? Oliver said. ?We had finished it at 9:30 p.m. the night before and held it down with books. When we got back the next morning it had bowed up. It looked pitiful.?
But once the work was flattened and framed, the creativity and eye for composition came through and the piece ended up winning.
There will be a number of puzzle collages on display at Chole?s, which is located at 209 E. Main Street.