Summer Art Experience

August 2006

Thanks to a grant provided by the Chatham County Arts Council, 11 CCT! youth had the rare opportunity to learn from Chatham County art masters.

Side Street Gallery in downtown Pittsboro hosted a week long immersion project where students were exposed to a number of mediums used in art production and explored art history.

Michael Mosca, co-owner of Side Street, covered sculpture installation, Vitabeth Bensen taught screen printing, Joan Sommers demonstrated Chinese Ink Painting and Leslie Palmer instructed on ink, chalk, charcoal and graphite. Every student prepared a project from each of these mediums and then displayed their work at a gallery exhibit on July 9th.

Ink drawings

Screen prints

Instructor Michael Mosca of
Side Street Gallery in Pittsboro