Fifteen Newark, N.J., public high-school students and their professional-artist mentors will exhibit their collaborative artworks during ArtReach XVI, June 12-July 10, 2008. They are participants in an award-winning arts mentorship program by City Without Walls, New Jersey's oldest nonprofit alternative art space, founded 1975. The program features Newark artists mentoring gifted students in their studios for a semester, interns receiving real-world gallery experience, prominent artists lecturing at Newark high schools, and a culminating exhibition. Many of the students are from low-income families, and to make it possible for them to participate in ArtReach, each receives a stipend of $400. ArtReach has been called a "model" education program by the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. This year’s exhibition opens with a performance by the Newark Boys Chorus School and features student videos, wall murals, photography, painting, sculpture, installations and time-lapse video. [LINK] Posted by Linda Frye Burnham