4.18.2013

Clay & Arts Festival - Friday, May 17th

Save the date for this year's Clay & Arts Festival! It's sure to be a wild evening with dozens of ways to get your hands dirty making art, from ceramics to tie-dye and more.  Also enjoy hilarious clay competitions, great music from violin to punk, deans and teachers in a clay slip dunk tank, an art equipment raffle, student exhibits, food, and more! Fun for all ages, young children to seniors; open to the public.

To cap off the night at 8 pm, Ghanaian artist Nani Agbeli will lead a drumming & dance performance that is not to be missed! We will drum and march our way from the festival into the Lane auditorium for an interactive performance - tickets only $5!



More Information about the Events at the Clay & Arts Festival:

ART ACTIVITIES
Try your hand at screen printed t-shirts, spray paint art and stenciling, tie-dye, the potters wheel, photo booths, air brush tattoos, face painting, mosaics, beaded earrings, doodling, sculpture, painting, printmaking, henna painting, hair dye, make a mug, clay faces, pop-up books, sidewalk chalk & kids’ art booths! 

RAFFLE
Great art prizes will be raffled off to lucky winners at the end of the night.

CLAY OLYMPICS
Watch students compete in crazy mud competitions! Tallest cylinder, left/right-handed duo, blind throwing, cylinder stacks, portrait look-a-likes, foot throwing, teapot teams, mud arm wrestling, and giant coil pots! Competitions every half hour with gold, silver, and bronze medals.

SLIP DUNK TANK
Sink administrators, teachers, and students in a clay slip pit! Featured guest Mr. Wendorf!

ENTERTAINMENT
An awesome array of Lane Tech musicians and performers!

FOOD
Kiln-baked cookies & mud pies, drinks, and pizza

ART SALE
Professional, teacher, and student work for sale

EXHIBIT
View the amazing talent of Lane Tech art students, including a senior show of art majors and advanced placement students.