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CITY OF SOUTH BEND I OFFICE OF THE CLERK movement created in the American Art Legacy. It has given us an opportunity to really give a progressive and in-depth education about American Art. It is a really wonderful opportunity, as you will see in your handout, to collaborate. We put together many community partners for this each year. The Destination Latin America Show is coming up this fall and that is our 2018 edition of our American Series. Partners onboard so far are La Casa de Amistad, South Bend Latin Dance, Radio Sabor Latino, Indian Latino Institute,the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago and the University of Notre Dame. We also have several sponsors already. We have the l5t Source Foundation, Electronic Incorporated, The Community Foundation of St. Joseph County and we are very pleased to announce the receiving of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. It is a great opportunity to learn about Latin American Art. We are going in-depth into the culture. We are looking at food, dance and visual arts. That will be a great event. She continued, Biennial Twenty-Nine (29), as you can tell by the title, is going to be happening for the twenty-ninth(29th)time. That started in the 1960s and it gives us an opportunity to present contemporary and cutting-edge works of art by artists from the region. It also has been an opportunity for us to build our permanent collection of art. We have a support auxiliary called The Art League. They support us each year with a purchase award. We have had the opportunity to collect, over the years, some wonderful contemporary art from the region. This has been one (1) of the staples of our programming. It is also an opportunity to represent the local and regional artists as it is a wonderful opportunity for those artists. The other strong opportunity we have are the exhibitions we do in the Art League Gallery. We do three(3)to four(4)exhibitions every year. Again,that represents local and regional artists. She went on, The Scholastics Art Awards is one (1) of our great prides and joys. We have been presenting The Scholastics Art Awards Exhibition since 1985 and in 2012 we became the regional affiliate. There was a danger of losing the Scholastic Art Awards to the Fort Wayne region because the Committee that had been running it locally was just burning out. We adopted the program and started a very aggressive fundraising tactic and it has gotten stronger every year. The entries grow and it supports eighteen (18) counties in northeast Indiana and southwest Michigan. It is a competition for high school and middle school students. This year we had almost 4,000 submissions from high school and middle school students. That was then juried by professional artists down to about nine hundred (900) entries which are then hung in the gallery. All of those represented in the gallery are award winners but those who have a portfolio and gold key awards then go on to a national completion in New York. Our region has traditionally been one(1) of the most awarded regions in the Country. We are very proud of that but I think it is more of a tribute to the students and teachers in the schools in the region. We are very proud to present that nationally. She continued, We are in our thirtieth (30th) year of Meet Me on the Island. I brought this to the table to Century Center and WBPE in 1988 and it is still going strong. It really hit the deck running. Even the first(ls) year we were getting 1,500 to 2,000 people in attendance. It continues to draw sometimes up to 3,000, especially for the 4th of July. In 2017 we had almost 8,000 people attend. It has been a great event. It is a good community event, public relations event and is a bit of a revenue source for Century Center. It has been a win-win-win. Committeemember Voorde asked, Is the artwork from the Scholastic Awards for sale? EXCELLENCE I ACCOUNTABILITY I INNOVATION I INCLUSION I EMPOWERMENT 455 County-City Building 1227W.Jefferson Bvld South Bend,Indiana 466011 p 574.235.9221 If 574.235.9173 I TTD 574.235.5567 iwww.southbendin.gov 7