Eastern’s art education students are gathering their crayons and markers this week, as middle and high schoolers from Mattoon and Charleston assemble for the first day of Art Mix on Tuesday at the Tarble Art Center. Art Mix is an after-school program for middle and high schoolers to come and explore the Tarble Arts Exhibition,.
“These happen over years of gathering these shows, conversations with the artists and studio visits with the artists,” said Kaen Henry, the assistant director of public engagement at the Tarble Arts Center. Eastern’s Tarble Arts Center opened their first Fall Exhibition of the semester on Sept. 22 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. The exhibit.
A new funding project out of the Tarble Arts Center was created to support local artists’ creative endeavors and build a stronger connection between the Coles County community and the arts. The project, called Souprize!, took inspirations from similar events like Sunday Soup in Chicago and Sloup in St. Louis, both larger cities with higher.