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What can kids do at the festival?

There will be a specific kids area with many activities for children at the festival.

• Make-and-take Projects
This area will include children making handmade instruments, such as canjelo’s (can banjos) and other arts and crafts activities.

• Participate in the 8’x16’ interactive Community Mural, designed and prepped by Federal Hocking students then fully painted by all who attend the festival. This finished mural will then be exhibited at Stuart’s Opera House and might even serve as the backdrop to next year’s stage at Nelsonville Art & Music Festival! Thanks to Ellen Hadley for spearheading this project, and being instrumental in its ability to be created!

• All festival goers are invited to paint the Community Mural!

We are also proud to be exhibiting the Federal Hocking Middle School’s Children’s Guernica Peace Mural. The mural is part of "Kids' Guernica," an international student project that creates paintings of peace the size of Picasso's masterpiece. The paintings will tour around the world.

The local project was funded through the Dairy Barn Southeastern Ohio Cultural Arts Center. Kids collaborated with artist-in-residence Katie Pearce, a mural designer with Elements of Nature, an interior mural design company in Columbus.

To read more about this project please visit http://athensmessenger.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&ArticleID=9212