New Art Exhibit at Everglades National Park Coe Visitor Center

Date: May 2, 2008
Contact: Linda Friar, 305-242-7714

The Coral Reef Elementary School’s Art Club, Miami, FL, presents the "Animals of the Everglades" exhibit of student art at the Ernest F. Coe Visitor’s Center, Everglades National Park Main Entrance, 40001 State Road 9336, Homestead, Florida, from May 3^rd through May 31^st.

The exhibit includes art made with oil pastels, fine-point markers and woodless colored pencils. The Art Club meets two to three times a month for one hour after school.

Ms. Frances E. Arango, Art Teacher, says this will be the Art Club’s first non-Miami Dade County school exhibition. The students are 10 and 11 years old and are in the 4^th and 5^th grades.

A "Meet the Artists" reception will take place Saturday, May 10, 2008, from 2 PM to 4 PM at the Visitor’s Center.

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