Chattanooga Girls Leadership Academy Students to Tour Association of Visual Arts Watercolor Exhibit

As part of their year-long mentorship program with Tennessee American Water, 11 Chattanoooga Girls Leadership Academy (CGLA) tenth-grade students will tour the Association of Visual Arts (AVA) current watercolor exhibit. Two local artists who have artwork on display - Sandy Boone and Jennie Kirkpatrick – will speak to the girls about their careers as professional artists.

“I wanted the girls to experience some of the art that is made available to all of the community through AVA while showing them how water touches so many aspects of our lives – including art,” said Tennessee American Water External Affairs Manager Daphne Kirksey. “The visit will also demonstrate first-hand a community partnership between an organization and a company.”

The artwork is part of the traveling Tennessee Watercolor Society’s 35^th Juried Exhibition traveling show. Exhibits at AVA are free to the community.

Each month, the CGLA students come to Tennessee American Water to learn about different careers as a water professional. In October the girls are learning about External Affairs. Future sessions will cover GIS mapping from Tennessee American Water’s spatial engineer and will include a geocaching treasure hunt using mapping as well as a presentation from the water quality team with hands-on experiments and testing.

The students will be at AVA, 30 Frazier Avenue, at 11 a.m. on Thursday, October 27.

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