9 April, 2018
You’re eight years old. How do you imagine the experience of running a marathon?
Welcome to Heart, Courage, and Sweat the Hopkinton Center for the Arts’s annual exploration of how elementary school artists imagine and depict the marathon experience.
In the drawing of Clara Vanguri, age 7, the race route whips and swerves through hills, churches, traffic cones, and road signs from start to finish in just 14 horizontal inches, under a bright sun and a hovering helicopter.
Pacaline Tetteh, 10, has a personal, metaphorical take. A grand piano and an acoustic guitar are visited by a thought bubble rising from below her painting’s bottom edge. In it are a violin and the text, “If I keep on practicing I will be perfect.”
Arhan Shrivastava, 9, focuses on the finish line. In his drawing, a race official waves a checkered flag and a scoreboard flashes runners’ times as the big guy in dark blue reaches for the red tape just past the full-out airborne stretch of the smaller guy in dark blue, a very, very close second.
“Our teachers suggest the marathon theme to our students in HCA classes, and, like kids everywhere, what they do is amazing,” says HCA co-director Kris Waldman, who organizes the exhibition.
Heart, Courage, and Sweat: The Kids’ Marathon Show runs from April 16 to May 3 in HCA’s Lotvin Family Gallery. A free reception for the young artists, their families, and the public will be held at the gallery on Saturday, April 28 from 1 to 2 pm.
To see more work by these students artists, click here.
The Hopkinton Center for the Arts offers arts to all people. Our classes, productions, and exhibitions serve an inclusive community of students, performers, and exhibiting artists diverse in age, ability, experience, ethnicity, and geography.
In the visual arts, theater, music, and dance, HCA annually offers over 200 classes to over 1,000 students, from preschool to seniors, drawn from the diverse population of over 40 neighboring cities and towns. In 2015 we opened our new art center, with newly renovated classrooms, a new 200-seat performance space, and a new exhibition space. The Delbridge Family Performance Space and the Lotvin Family Gallery annually present dozens of productions and exhibitions by students and adults, amateurs and professionals.
For more information about this exhibition, the Lotvin Family Gallery, or the Hopkinton Center for the Arts, contact Kris Waldman at kris@hopartscenter.org or 508.589.4409.
