WCHS Students Work With Local Artist To Create Rua Art Exhibit
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On Tuesday, the gallery at rua will feature a special showing of the 20 Panel Modern Mosaic collaboration between the Warsaw Community High School art department and artist-in-residence Christi Ziebarth titled “On Edge.”
The exhibit, located in the Brennan Room of Warsaw restaurant Rua, will run from Tuesday through July 21, with a public artist reception from 6 to 7:30 p.m. May 24.
The exhibit is the collaborative result of the four-week Educational Artist Residency Program featuring Ziebarth and over 450 WCHS art students. The 20 mosaic acrylic panels that make up the installation are the combined hands-on creations of the students and Ziebarth.
Ziebarth is a local artist whose mosaic designs are rich in tactile intricacy and concentric motion, according to a news release from Warsaw Community Schools. Modern mosaic highlights the composition of wordless freeform improvisation.
Ziebarth, who grew up in Michigan, has degrees in education, K-12 art and graphic design. Her work can be found in various art walls throughout the local area, as well as Western Michigan University, Indianapolis and Los Angeles.
The Educational Artist Residency Program is a curriculum-based creative process where art students at WCHS work with a working professional artist to design, create and build collaborative works of art, as well as see and experience the personal art journey and techniques of the resident artist.
Rua is at 108 E. Market St., Warsaw, and serves a menu of internationally inspired street food. The gallery at rua offers new exhibits on an ongoing basis featuring a variety of artists from Northern Indiana, the Midwest and beyond.
Ziebarth will be present at the reception, which is open to the public. Appetizers will be provided and a cash bar will be available.
The gallery will be open to the public throughout the restaurant’s normal business hours Monday through Saturday 5 p.m. to close, and during brunch Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
For more information, email thegallery@ruawarsaw.com or call 574-267-4730.
