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Gifted Children's Exhibit
| Collaboration with Hampton School System To Promote Gifted Youth |
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Blue Skies Gallery is teaming with Hampton City Schools to host an opening and showing of works by elementary-aged gifted students participating in the Excel Art program. The show opens Friday May 2nd with an opening reception from 5:30 to 7:30PM on May 8th. The work will be on display through May 31st. |
| The show is entitled Primary Expressions. The young artists will attend the reception along with their parents, gallery affiliated artists and school officials. Come meet a creative force of the future. | |
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Excel Art is a program offered by the Department of Academic Advancement and Enrichment of the Hampton City School System. The program identifies and delivers enriched and accelerated discipline-based art instruction to students “gifted” in the visual arts. |
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all-day pullout program in a mixed grade level classroom with students
from all over the city. Eligible students are bused to and from their
home school one day a week. The school division provides
transportation. |
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| Gallery Offers Dialog To Promote Gifted Youth Blue Skies Gallery
in conjunction with
Cynthia McAdoo-Davis
to host a gallery talk on
Promoting Gifted Youth Through the Visual Arts.
The talk will conclude the month long show entitled,
Primary Expressions. Ms. McAdoo-Davis is the
coordinator for the Department of Academic Advancement and
Enrichment’s program for gifted elementary-aged art students in
Hampton.
Gallery talk is scheduled for Thursday, May 29 at 5:00 pm. |
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talk will address the characteristics of the gifted learner,
development of critical thinking skills, divergent problem
solving, and nurturing the visually gifted child. McAdoo-Davis is a
practicing artist and veteran art instructor on the Peninsula.
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