01-05-2025
ArtBreak celebrates talent, creativity and the arts through performances, master classes, and competition
CADDO PARISH, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – The Shreveport Regional Arts Council's annual ArtBreak festival is the largest showcase of student art programs in the south.
ArtBreak is celebrating its 39th year of creativity, talent, and the arts.
More than 3,000 works of visual and literary art created by students from kindergarten through 12th grade will be on display. Throughout the festival, students will participate in various performances and competitions, as well as engage in hands-on activities and master classes.
'We have dance, visual, literary, light it up with the Bakowski Bridge of Lights, we have fashion design, we have film production with film prize junior, and we also have the Louisiana Association of the Blind,' said Henry Price, president of the Shreveport Regional Arts Council.
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A press conference was held to kick off the festival. Attendees included the Caddo Parish School Board, Shreveport Mayor Tom Arceneaux, sponsors and partners who make the festival possible, and the Shreveport Regional Arts Council (SRAC).
Rebecca Bonnevier, executive director of the Shreveport Regional Arts Council said, 'this year we also focused on inclusion, and so some of the new things that we'll have, include a sensory room, and that's for students or adults that may be are a little over stimulated by the sounds and the visual colors that allows them the place to chill out a little bit kind of until they can rejoin the activities.'
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ArtBreak is open to the public from May 2nd to 4th, with a complete list of activities.
Caddo Parish students were invited on tours to see their artwork and explore. Superintendent Keith Burton says when a school values the arts, every indicator of academic success rises.
'Truancy goes down, attendance goes up, academic performance increases across the board- with not only standardized testing but day to day so we know that we will continue to support not only the things that make a difference for kids, but make a difference for our entire schools,' said Superintendent Keith Burton of Caddo Parish Public Schools.
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