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2016 Metro Arts Paintings & Sculptures Go On Display

Works from this year's Quad City Arts Metro Arts Youth Apprenticeship Program will go on display Thursday in Davenport. Herb Trix reports.
Summary

The 17 young apprentices worked with professional artists for the past five weeks. Steve Banks was the lead artist for the sculpture project, featuring life-size or bigger apples, bananas, and other types of fruit. And he thinks his kids learned some valuable skills. He says the paid apprenticeship is also probably their first summer job.

Sarah Robb supervised 9 young artists who painted the first new designs in 15 years on the benches in downtown Rock Island.

The sculptures and benches will be showcased Thursday night at the Figge Art Museum - then the benches will be returned to downtown Rock Island, while the fruit sculptures will be shown again during River Roots Live in August. The Metro Arts apprenticeship program began 17 years ago. 
 

A native of Detroit, Herb Trix began his radio career as a country-western disc jockey in Roswell, New Mexico (“KRSY, your superkicker in the Pecos Valley”), in 1978. After a stint at an oldies station in Topeka, Kansas (imagine getting paid to play “Louie Louie” and “Great Balls of Fire”), he wormed his way into news, first in Topeka, and then in Freeport Illinois.