The Isla Center for the Arts at the University of Guam announced the opening of the\u00a019th\u00a0Annual Art-a-thon\u00a0Exhibition\u00a0yesterday, March 2, 2017. The exhibit features selected works of art created by students who participated in the 2016-2017 Isla Art-a-thon.<\/p>\n
The exhibit includes over 60 works selected from over 800 students from 22 schools who participated in this year\u2019s art-a-thon. Students from elementary, middle, and high schools produced these impressive works using a variety of media including crayon, pastels, colored pencils, ink, graphite, collage, mixed media, pastels, foil relief, print, watercolors, and acrylics.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s art-a-thon\u00a0raised just over $29,000!\u00a0 Forty percent of the funds raised, or $11,000, was returned to the participating schools to purchase art-related materials for the students.<\/p>\n
The opening reception for this exhibit was held yesterday, March 2m from 6pm to 8:30pm, at the Isla center for the Arts, located in house #15, Dean\u2019s Circle on the University of Guam campus in Mangilao.<\/p>\n
This project is supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, Guam Council on the Arts and Humanities Agency, government of Guam, Office of the Governor, and the University of Guam.\u00a0 Corporate sponsors for the art-a-thon\u00a0include Fish Eye Marine\u00a0Park\u00a0and Matson Foundation.<\/p>\n
The Isla Center for the Arts at the University of Guam is open to the public free of charge. Gallery hours are Monday to Friday, 10am to 5pm; Saturdays, from 10am to 2pm; closed on Sundays and holidays.<\/p>\n
Please call 735-2965 or email\u00a0islacenter@gmail.com\u00a0for more information. (UOG)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Isla Center for the Arts at the University of Guam announced the opening of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,18],"tags":[51,14498,13068],"class_list":["post-247596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-and-style","category-pacific","tag-guam","tag-isla-center","tag-matson-foundation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}