The Art Zone AHS

Alleghany County School's

Very Special Art's Festival

Began in 1992

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What is the Very Special Art's Festival?  

The Very Special Art's Festival is now an international event.  Specifically, it is a visual arts, movement arts, musical arts, and theatrical arts festival for all exceptional students providing art experiences above and beyond the traditional classroom experience.  This includes but is not limited to Learning Disabled students, Emotionally Mentally Handicapped students, Visually Impaired students, Hearing Impaired students,  Physically Impaired students, Autistic students, and Downs Syndrome students.  This involves a wide range of students from those who have an unobvious learning disability to those who are severely mentally and/or physically handicapped.  Our art's festival here in Alleghany is unique in that we employ student mentors on a grand scale to teach, assist, be tour guides, and befriend our exceptional students.  Our assistants come from the Alleghany High School's chapter of  The National Art Honor Society, Academically Gifted high school and elementary students, and Learning Disabled or other exceptional  high school students who would rather assist than participate.  Our festival is always based on a theme, usually a cultural theme.  

Themes for Alleghany County's Art's Festivals

1992 - Ancient Egyptian Art - Walk Like an Egyptian  

1993 - The Potter - Clayworks

1994 -  True Colors - Modern Art

1995 - The Community Artist - Helping Hands

1996 - Up, Up and Away - Art that Moves

1997 - Native American Art - All Things Are Connected 

1998 -  Ancient Chinese Art - The Eastern Influence

1999 - Aboriginal Art of Australia - In Front With the Outback

Upcoming:   2000 - Barnyard Art - Art and study of farm life.....

Art's festivals from years past pictured here:

	Renowned local potter, Bet Mangum works with awesome Cendy Bare to create a thrown vessel at the Very Special Art's Festival, October 1998.
	Hallie Jean Billings paints an elementary students face at the Very Special Art's Festival, 1997.
	Remember these folks? *From the very first Very Special Art's Festival, 1992. They were having a timeless good day dressing up like ancient Egyptians.
	Stacey Banks helps Ashley Miller.  Ashley was a prize winning student that day and walked away with special recognition.  Congratulations to both.   Very Special Art's 1997
	Debbie Grimms of Mangum Pottery in Turkey Knob, NC, helps Gaye from Alleghany County's ADAP program to throw a clay vessel on the pottery wheel.

The Very Special Art's Festival of the Millennium - 1999-2000 program and poster:

To view pictures of this year's event, click here.

The Very Special Art's Festival 1999-2000 focused on the Aborigianl Art of Australia.  It was entitled "In Front with the Outback."

To view the Aboriginal Powerpoint created in preparation for The Very Special Art's Festival 1999-2000 - Click Here