Our 2010 Dogwood Festival Kids Day themeis “MAKE IT GROW”. We’re interpreting this mathematically and have looked to 3rd grade algebra, math and data analysis benchmarks and indicators to shape this year’s project. The children will be working with artist Clinton King, RV’95, who, as part of a team of artists helped install a major Sol LeWitt retrospective. Following Sol LeWitt’s artistic process we’ll explore possible arrangements and combinations and describe these arrangements in words.  These words/ideas will become our machine–our set of instructions from which, like magic, the artwork will appear before our eyes. The children’s work will be installed in downtown Coshocton on the old PARK space Platform wall. Last year's 3rd graders created bottle cap fish that were installed along County Rd. 1-A throughout the summer.

"In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work. When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand...The idea becomes a machine that makes the art." Sol LeWitt