Billboard contest features youth art
What do first through 12th-graders and billboards have in common? For the entire month of March, they'll join to form one of the largest outdoor exhibitions of children's art in Bloomington and Indianapolis. Courtesy of "Your Art Here," a Bloomington-based, non-profit organization, art by students from Bloomington and Indianapolis schools will be on display on billboards at four Bloomington and four Indianapolis locations. Recent IU photography graduates Shana Berger, Alyssa Hill, Nathan Purath and Owen Mundy dreamed up the idea of putting art on Bloomington billboards in August 2002. The group formed "Your Art Here" because of the need to reclaim the often-disregarded exhibition space, Mundy said. "We wanted to take a hand in the most dominant form of visual communication," Berger said in an earlier interview. "Billboards aren't available for exhibit to most people, yet they are seen by large numbers of people everyday."