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Creating Pride is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping economically disadvantaged school children in Atlanta build self-confidence and awareness through hands-on art projects. Through Creating Pride's Corporate Art Program, Worldspan commissioned the Towns Elementary students to create four large "patchwork" paintings, with each child painting a single square on the 36-inch x 48-inch canvases.
The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra education department participated in the project, providing a special curriculum designed to help students explore how composers create melody and understand the link between music and the visual arts. In fact, the Worldspan-sponsored paintings share the theme of the orchestra's 2001-2002 Young People's Concerts-Melody: A Line in Motion.
The paintings will be exhibited December 21-22 at Atlanta's Woodruff Arts Center during the Brandenburg Celebration, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra's performances of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, conducted by Robert Spano and sponsored by Worldspan. Following the concert series, the artwork will be permanently displayed at Worldspan's corporate offices.
During the December 18 unveiling, Worldspan presented each young artist with a recorder as a keepsake of their project combining art and music.
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