The 13th annual Lincoln-Way Fine Arts Festival called ArtWorks is being held on Saturday, April 5, 2008 from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm at Lincoln-Way East High School in Frankfort.

This year, as before, ArtWorks includes the talents of students and faculty from the Lincoln-Way high schools, area junior highs, middle schools and elementary schools along with community artists.

“ It is our hope that the entire Lincoln-Way community can spend a few minutes observing our great students in action. When the auditorium at East was constructed, the Lincoln-Way Board of Education told our citizens that we wanted the new facility to be one of the finest cultural arts center’s in the Chicagoland area. To date, many wonderful theatrical productions have been performed at East and at Central by our students and theatrical professionals. We have expanded the use of these two facilities to include all areas of the fine arts; music, art, dance, literature, dramatics and story telling. We are excited about all the increased opportunities for our students and the community when we have two additional fine arts facilities, one with Lincoln-Way North and one with Lincoln-Way West,” stated Dr. Lawrence A. Wyllie, superintendent.

“ArtWorks will feature the art classrooms with demonstrations and various hands-on activities including the pottery wheel, jewelry making and copper enameling, photography, watercolor painting, television production, computer graphics and computer animation for all age levels as well as exhibits,” noted Colette Rinn, ArtWorks chair and district art department chairperson.

Artwork from all age groups will be on display in the cafeteria. A wide variety of musical performances will also be presented including, bands, choirs, and youth strings as well as drama presentations.
Also featured are several local professional artists, John Tylk, Frankfort, doing an oil painting demonstration and Ted Fuka, Mokena, demonstrating working with pastels.

Lincoln-Way art teachers contributing to the event are: Phil Labriola, associate district department chair, and teachers, Judy Murphy, Ann North, Aaron Raatjes, Deanna Ross, Cathy Erickson, Julia Johnson, Dale Sandoval, Pat Tutko, Bill Howard, Samantha Hostert, Ann Zmuda and student teacher David Weishaar.

The music chairs and staff contributing to the event are: Stacy Jackson, Bert Johnson, Robert Calhoon, Jennifer Kluchenick, Alysia Lambert, and Mike Bultman.

The participating area junior high and middles school teaching staff members including: Cathy Nolan, Jennifer Venutolo, Debbie Kohl, Amanda Popow, Elizabeth Rodgers, Joe Vonch, Leslie Walton, Barbara Lamar, Rob Ackerman, Kim Coughlin, Rachel McSpaden, and Janet Putz.