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February 18, 2010

Timonium Optimist Club features Young Artists Showcase

I have a new favorite Optimist Club website.  Please visit the Optimist Club of Timonium, MD.  This well-organized website explores the 50-year heritage of the Optimist Club serving their community. The reader can find out about:

But what brought me to their website today was an advertisement for the Young Artists Showcase.  Coordinated by the Timonium Optimist Club and the Towson Arts Collective, the showcase was a juried selection  of original, two-dimensional works by high school students in Baltimore and Baltimore County.  Eighteen schools and fifty-one students participated. 

Six students received honors for their work. Best entry in their respective media: Kelsey Heyman, of Owings Mills High School; Gen O'Keefe, of Notre Dame Preparatory, and Rob Payne, of Hereford High.  Honorable mention went to Rachel Peichert, of Garrison Forest; Katie Kim, of Roland Park Country, and Brooke Powell, of Garrison Forest School.

Optimist Clubs are well known for their hands-on participation in youth-serving projects.  Nurturing creativity through art exhibits is one way that Optimist Club projects seek to engage all types of students.  What a great activity!  Hurry ... the exhibit ends on February 19.