January 28, 2023 Issue, Page 10 of 10

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10 The Elk City News (é (0) m m U n 1 t y January 28, 2023 Auditions for the Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute Held Across the State OKLAHOMA CITY— High school actors, singers, writers, danc- ers, visual artists, filmmakers, musicians and photographers are invited to apply and audition for the Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute at Quartz Mountain (OSAI), Oklahoma's one-of-a-kind arts education program. While visual and literary arts disciplines will submit their auditions online, in-person auditions for chorus and orchestra will take place at more than 20 locations across the state. Interested students must first submit an online application and may schedule an audition, if applicable. Learn more and apply by visiting oaiquartz.org/OSAI. ‘The program will take place June 10-25, 2023, at Quartz Moun- tain State Park & Lodge. As Oklahoma's Official School for the Arts, every student accepted to OSAI receives a full scholarship Fairview Elementary: to attend, Widely known as Oklahoma’s premier opportunity for aspiring artists, the Institute provides an experience far beyond that of Gone but Not Forgotten an ordinary summer arts program. Renowned teaching artists from across the country travel to Quartz Mountain, where they provide advanced, collegiate-level training and mentorship to the By Landry Brewer As a neighborhood elementary school, its the city's youngest students. When the students in one of eight artistic disciplines: acting, chorus, cre- students were known as the Fairview Blue new school opened in 2018, Fairview and ative writing, dance, drawing & painting, film & video, orchestra At Fairview Elementary, they razed the Devils until the early 1980s when, because Northeast Elementary closed their door: or photography. Its multidisciplinary structure sets the Institute roof. And the walls, floors, and ceilings. of local sentiment, the school nickname Under the watchful eye of its final princi- apart, allowing students both intense study in their chosen di Dirt and memories are all that remain of was changed. Students became Fairview pal, Pam Joy, Fairview Elementary’s last pline and new exposure to unfamiliar art forms. the school where so many Elk Citians were Falcons instead. educating students was January 12, Although the cost of a program of this magnitude is steep, ev- educated during their youngest years. ‘A gymnasium was built on school grounds day 2018. ery student accepted to the Institute receives a full scholarship BEGINNINGS in the 1990s. to attend. The Oklahoma State Department of Education, the As Elk City’s population grew in the 1940s, During the same decade, Fairview, along GONE WITH THE WIND more elementary school space was needed. with the city’s other elementary schools, ‘The Fairview building at 1502 W. 7th sat Oklahoma Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts To accommodate the growth, Fairview El- changed from being a neighborhood Pre- largely unused until last June when the and numerous private foundations and individuals underwrite ementary was built on Lusk Ave. between K--4 school to being a grade center. Elk City School Board approved its sale to the program costs to ensure that OSAI is within reach for all of 6th St. and 7th St. and housed its first stu- A MATTER OF PRINCIPAL local contractor Joe D. Hall. Demolition of Oklahoma’s most talented young artists. dents in 1951, Kenneth Hart was the longest-serving the building began in December and was The Oklahoma Arts Institute at Quartz Mountain (OAI) is Okla- CHANGES Fairview Elementary Principal. recently completed. homa’s Official School of the Arts. A private, nonprofit organiza- According to Lynn Kennemer’s history of Hired in 1966 by Elk City Superintendent After standing for 72 years and educating tion, OAI has partnered with the State of Oklahoma for over 45 Elk City, the school system purchased a Jerry Kirk, he served under five more su- young Elk City students for 67, the Fair- years to provide exceptional multidisciplinary arts education ex- metal building from the area Vo-Tech and perintendents—Joe White, Jerry Doyle, view Elementary building is gone. periences that develop individual skill and inspire a lifelong pas- moved it to Fairview in 1974 to provide Don McDonald, Bruce Miller, and Galeard sion for the arts. In addition to the Summer Arts Institute—the more classrooms. Roper—before retiring after 30 years at All that remains is the soil where it stood. state’s flagship program for talented high school artists—OAI ‘Then, because of dramatic oil-boom-relat- Fairview’s helm in 1996. That and the thousands of memories of ed population and school-enrollment in- CLOSING TIME the administrators, faculty, staff, stu- administers a series of continuing education workshops for educa- tors and other adult artists during the annual Oklahoma Fall Arts crease, four more classrooms were added Elk City’s new Elementary School, west dents, and parents who passed through its Institute. 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