Monday, July 26, 2010

Dairy Barn Cultural Arts Center



The Dairy Barn Cultural Arts Center received a spring grant of $1,100 from the Athens Foundation, and they’re using the money to help enhance the local community by making arts programs accessible to people of all ages and abilities.

The grant money was used to purchase two 46” LCD monitors that will be programmed with historical and artistic content in order to enhance the printed material for the students and the visitors.

Founded in 1978 by Athens natives Harriet and Ora Anderson, the Dairy Barn Cultural Arts Center is an art gallery that offers exhibitions, events and educational programs. The Barn helps increase tourism in Southeast Ohio, having exceeded 18,000 visitors in 2009 alone, including artists and individuals from 24 states and three foreign countries. The Center hosts four exhibitions each year and offers classes year round.

Because the Dairy Barn is notorious for their educational programs that help develop art appreciation among all ages, this year a new educational program was created; Project MOO CALF. This project is an educational outreach program that includes free Mentoring and Onsite Outreach for Children to inspire Arts Learning Fun. As part of the project, six educational panels will be created per exhibition, as well as education gallery guides and educational materials for hands on activities per exhibition. According to the Dairy Barn’s Executive Director Andrea Lewis, “Because children and the audiences are changing, we wanted to go into new media.” With the help of the two LCD TV’s, “each exhibition [will] have a specialized youth component that is digital in nature,” and with this, art programs really will be accessible to people of all ages and abilities.

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