Batesville Primary School Student Selected for Art on Main

Congrats Gannon Schomber.

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(Batesville, Ind.) - The Batesville Community Education Foundation (BCEF) is pleased to announce that artwork by Batesville Primary School (BPS) student Gannon Schomber has been selected as the school’s representative piece for the 2024-25 Art on Main installation in downtown Batesville. Schomber’s artwork is now on display on the side of the Simons Company building on Main Street.

“Our Art on Main theme this year is ‘It’s an Indiana Thing,’ so students are free to interpret that however they want,” explained Ryan Holcomb, BCEF board member, and Art on Main chair. “We sent entry forms home with all BPS students, encouraging them to show us what Indiana means to them. Our committee loved Gannon’s depiction of a typical Indiana autumn, with colored leaves falling, a cardinal chirping in a tree, and a neighborhood child jumping on a trampoline. It’s the perfect art installation for downtown this time of year.”

BCEF’s Art on Main program features artwork from students from the four Batesville Community School Corporation (BCSC) buildings on a rotating basis. BCEF pays for the creation of every mural, with Jimmy Rowland from Rowland Graphics donating his company’s time to install every mural, and Nick Maple, owner of the building, providing the use of his location for the display. The BPS mural will be on display until December when an entry from Batesville Intermediate School will take its place. Artwork from Batesville Middle School and Batesville High School will follow in the spring. For more information about Art on Main or any of BCEF’s programs, contact BCEF executive director Anne Wilson at awilson@batesville.k12.in.us.