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Arts Council to hold open houseALTON — The Madison County Arts Council will sponsor an open house of the new Jacoby Arts Center, 627 E Broadway in Alton, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. It will feature free hands-on art activities for kids, free hot dogs, cake and soda, free class raffle registrations and class discount couponsClasses scheduled for children for the next nine weeks include activities related to Mexican, American Indian, African and Australian arts, followed by art from nature through printmaking, art and design, painting and drawing. All activities will be age appropriate and will includea variety of media. Instructors are well-known area artists.Weekly, half-day art camps will be divided into two age groups — 5 to 9 and 10 to 14 years of age. Morning sessions will be held from 9 a.m. to noon and afternoon sessions from 1 to 4 p.m The $150 fee for the weeklong. three-hour sessionswill include materials and a light snack.For adults, three six-week evening classes will be offered from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m: Landscape drawing with Kathryn Nahorski; painting with Brenda Schilling; and Digging It Up, a beginning pottery class with Susan Bostwick. Fees are $120 per session.
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Alton Telegraph
Alton, Illinois, US
Fri, Jun 18, 2004
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