SAIL High School Receives College Board’s First National Award for Innovation in the Arts

SAIL High School is one of six schools in the United States to be chosen as the inaugural recipient of the College Board Award for Excellence and Innovation in the Arts. Granted to one school in each of the College Board regions, this award was established to recognize and celebrate the achievements of K-12 institutions that have implemented an arts program that promotes student learning and creativity in exemplary and innovative ways. SAIL was chosen from applicants across the College Board’s Southern region, which consists of 10 states (LA, MS, AL, GA, FL, SC, NC, TN, KY, VA).

“The selection committee was very impressed with the diverse array of student artwork that was reflected in SAIL’s work sample and the high level of engagement and achievement that was reflected throughout. Your commitment to admitting students to SAIL regardless of their prior art experience and academic achievement, shows a commitment to access and equity that we greatly admire, and makes the high level of artistic and academic achievement even more inspiring. We are delighted to present SAIL High School with a $3,000 award to support its exemplary arts programming.”

-- Nancy Rubino, Director of Office of Academic Initiatives at the College Board

On Janurary 27 at 10:35, Superintendent Jackie Pons will be coming to SAIL to congratulate the students and staff on this prestigious award. SAIL performing arts students will present a 5 minute showcase of the dance, art, drama and music that we are being recognized for.

Tiffany Thomas, Assistant Principal, will accept the award on behalf of SAIL at the College Board’s Regional Forum in Atlanta on February 10- 11, 2011.

East Point’s Treasures by Shehla Milliron

Iamonia by Pam Talley

Spring Morning Horizon Lines-Detail by Mary Urquhart

The Council on Culture & Arts is pleased to present

Horizon Lines: Oil Paintings by Shehla Milliron, Pam Talley and Mary Urquhart

an exhibition at the City Hall Gallery from January 12 – March 7, 2011
as part of the Arts in Public Places program

Capturing images on canvas is Shehla Milliron’s way of going back in time and revisiting the places she has encountered. As an an oil painter focused primarily on landscapes and animals, Milliron spends the year living between Tallahassee and Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Her work depicts subjects from these two diverse regions. She paints on location whenever possible and also uses photography as an aid in the creation of her works, especially the wildlife.

Pam Talley is always evolving as an artist and she strives to show the beauty that great light can bring to everyday subjects. She works in oils and uses impressonistic brush and knife work to make her subjects come to life. Pam pursued painting throughout early school years and is a trained graphic artist. Pam teaches art classes at Brush and Palette Studio and is continually developing new ideas for paintings.

Born and raised in the Midwest, Mary Urquhart now sees wild beauty in the landscapes of the Southeast. Her paintings allow her the opportunity to discover, take chances and be taken by surprise. Whether it is a marsh, lake, river or the Gulf of Mexico, she finds allure in watery reflections. Urquhart's romantic realism invites you to drift into the glass-like reflections of water.

The City Hall Gallery is located at 300 South Adams Street, second floor lobby of Tallahassee’s City Hall. This gallery is free to the public and open Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Parking is available in Kleman Plaza.

The exhibition is curated by the Council on Culture & Arts’ Arts in Public Places program on behalf of the City of Tallahassee. For more information about this program, visit our web site.

For more information about this exciting exhibition or upcoming exhibitions contact Amanda Karioth Thompson at (850) 224-2500 or amanda@cocanet.org.

For a schedule of other exhibitions and arts and culture programs throughout north Florida, visit www.morethanyouthought.com. Learn more about COCA and sign up to receive COCA’s weekly email blast at www.cocanet.org.

The Council on Culture & Arts is pleased to present

Natural Awakenings: Paintings by Liu Nan

an exhibition at the Artport Gallery from

January 11 – March 21, 2011

as part of the Arts in Public Places program.

Born, raised and artistically trained in China, Liu Nan is now a Tallahassee resident. His landscapes include familiar scenes from the Big Bend Area and demonstrate the spirit of traditional Chinese art. Nature has consistently served as the main theme in his works and his goal is to promote natural and simple artistic expression. In this landscape series of oil and watercolor paintings, Nan seeks to express the joyous sensations he gets from the natural world, especially in undisturbed and undestroyed locales.

“The ‘Sunshine State’ has offered me an entirely new perspective on the value of the untouched and pristine. Growing up in a large metropolitan city in north China, crowded with millions of people and an increasingly obliterated natural environment due to modern urbanization, I rarely glimpsed the world that opened up to me in Florida.”

Nan expresses this new awakening to the varied beauty of our area in a series of paintings of natural environments; woods, water, and grass fields. His artwork is on display at the Artport Gallery.

This exhibition is free and open to the public. Gallery Hours: 8:00am – 11:30pm daily. The Artport Gallery is located inside the Tallahassee Regional Airport, 3300 Capital Circle SW.

The exhibition is curated by the Council on Culture & Arts’ Art in Public Places program on behalf of the City of Tallahassee. For more information about this program, visit www.cocanet.org.

For more information about this exhibition or upcoming exhibitions contact Amanda Karioth Thompson at (850) 224-2500 or Amanda@cocanet.org.

For a schedule of other exhibitions and arts and culture programs throughout north Florida, visit www.morethanyouthought.com. Learn more about COCA and sign up to receive COCA’s weekly email blast at www.cocanet.org.