The Winter Festival Youth Art Exhibition 2016 showcases youthful talent and imagination through more than 80 pieces of student artwork. Elementary, middle, and high school art teachers submitted work on behalf of their students for the competition. The entries represent more than 40 different area public, private, and home schools. The dedication and professionalism of our area art teachers is evident in the quality of the student artwork on display in the gallery and the exhibition is stunning.

A public reception for the exhibition begins at 6:00pm on Friday, December 2^nd in the City Hall Gallery, and lasts until 7:30. The awards ceremony will start at 6:30pm. It promises to be an evening of great pride for the students and awe-inspired admiration for those who see the exhibit.

The exhibit is now hanging in City Hall Gallery, 300 South Adams Street, second floor lobby of Tallahassee’s City Hall. The show will remain there until January 9th, 2017. It is free to the public and open Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Parking is available in Kleman Plaza.

For more than 20 years, the Council on Culture & Arts (COCA) has partnered with the City of Tallahassee’s Parks and Recreation Department to present the Winter Festival Youth Art Exhibition. It is one of a dozen exhibitions curated by COCA and is part of the City of Tallahassee’s Art in Public Places program. For more information about this exhibition, upcoming exhibitions, or the Art in Public Places program, contact Amanda Karioth Thompson (Amanda@tallahasseearts.org) at COCA, (850) 224-2500.