The Toe River Arts Council is pleased to announce an exhibition of student and faculty art from the ArtsCentered School.

ArtsCentered director Jann Welch has directed and taught at the Bakersville school for over six years. Welcoming students from ages five to 85 the school grew out of Jann's perception of the need for a "community-friendly arts facility" in the Blue Ridge similar to the one at Charleston's Gibbes Museum's Art School, where she'd worked for seven years. Newcomers to Jann's school are encouraged to take their first baby steps working with clay, paint, papermaking, basketry, and journaling. Young and old, children and retirees, competent artists seeking new media or hesitant amateurs, all come here to benefit from the superb arts instruction given in an environment of informality, care, and acceptance. Though some of her artists feel reluctant to display their work in January's show, most are so proud of their progress that they leap at the chance. Most of the work on display will be for sale.

For more information on ArtsCentered call the school at (828) 688-9191.

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