WonderRoot Artist Feature - WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE

In this artist feature special presentation, Atlanta Public Schools students Kelly Scollard, James Hunt, and Tahira Bradley join WonderRoot Program Manager Matthew Rosenfeld and Atlanta Public Schools Fine & Performing Art Coordinator Betsy Eppes to discuss WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE, WonderRoot's inaugural gallery exhibition collaboration with APS. The students share some thoughts on participating in the exhibition and how they currently see themselves as artists, while Eppes and Rosenfeld shed some light on the selection process and the vision for the collaboration between WonderRoot and Atlanta Public Schools. The students were recognized from the exhibition in the following categories: Jury Selects Award: Tahira Bradley, South Atlanta High School, "A Beautiful Mess" WonderRoot Selects Award: James Hunt, North Atlanta High School, "Sa Belle" Audience Choice Award: Kelly Scollard, Grady High School, "ATL Series" To learn more about this exhibit, visit: http://www.wonderroot.org/community-arts-center/wonderroot-gallery/gallery-show-what-a-time-to-be-alive/ WonderRoot is an Atlanta-based non-profit arts and service organization with a mission to unite artists and community to inspire positive social change. By providing production facilities to Atlanta-based artists and coordinating arts-based service programs, WonderRoot empowers artists to be proactive in engaging their communities through arts-based service work. For more information, please visit: http://wonderroot.org 
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