The Arts

Tri-County Educational Service Center prides itself in the role we are able to play in bringing Fine Arts opportunities to students in music, visual arts, drama, and speech.

Fine Arts Calendar  

 

Government Proclamation - Arts Education in Schools Month (2023)

 

Wayne County Fair Education Exhibit


The Tri-County Educational Service Center collaborates with the Wayne County Fair Board and schools to judge and display student projects in the arts during fair week.  It also manages the distribution of school fair tickets.  

Contact

For more information, contact Michelle Muro 330-345-6771 ext. 253.

 

Music


Children's Symphony Concert

A 4th Grade Children's Symphony Concert by the Wooster Symphony Orchestra sponsored annually by the Wooster Symphony women's Committee in partnership with Tri-County Educational Service Center for 1,100 students.

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Contact

For more information/details contact: 
Dr. Michelle Muro, Fine Arts Consultant
330-345-6771 ext. 253 or tesc_mmuro@tccsa.net

 

Solo and Ensemble Festival

Tri-County Solo & Ensemble Festival is designed to provide music students in grades 5-12 an opportunity to perform, display their music talents, and receive constructive comments as well as a rating for their performance.

Contact

For more information/details please contact:
Dr. Michelle Muro, Fine Arts Consultant
330-345-6771 ext. 253 or tesc_mmuro@tccsa.net

 

Tri-County Honors Band

Tri-County Honors Band is designed to provide an advanced instrumental music opportunity for gifted high school band students.  High school band students audition with the recommendation of the student's high school band director.  Based on the audition and instrumentation, the students are placed in one of two bands.  The Honors Band program includes a series of rehearsals with guest conductors and a concert with The College of Wooster Scot Symphonic Band.

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Contact

For more information/details please contact:
Dr. Michelle Muro, Fine Arts Consultant
330-345-6771 ext. 253 or tesc_mmuro@tccsa.net

 

Wayne County Bandarama

Bandarama is a marching band festival with individual band performances and a guest band.  It is designed to show the public the musical and marching strides of the area band programs and that instrumental music is a vital part of our public school curriculum.

Contact

For more information/details please contact:
Dr. Michelle Muro, Fine Arts Consultant
330-345-6771 ext. 253 or tesc_mmuro@tccsa.net

 

 

Wayne County Festival of Choirs

Conveying the importance of music education in the curriculum and community is the main goal of this concert.  This high school choir festival also provides an opportunity for individual school choirs to perform before participating in the OMEA Large Group state contest.  The concert concludes with a massed choral performance of more than 550 SATB voices under the direction of a college conductor.  After the concert each high school director is provided with constructive comments on their presentation to increase the quality of their choral performance.

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Contact

For more information/details please contact:
Dr. Michelle Muro, Fine Arts Consultant
330-345-6771 ext. 253 or tesc_mmuro@tccsa.net

 

 

Visual Arts


Rotating Elementary Art Exhibits

Each elementary school in Ashland, Holmes and Wayne Counties is invited to exhibit children's artwork at the Tri-County ESC office. The exhibit then rotates to the School Hallway Gallery at Wayne Center for the Arts for a second month of exhibition. Each month one student's artwork is selected as "Best of Show". This artwork is then professionally matted, framed and hung (in rotation) in the following locations: Wayne County Juvenile Court, Child Support Enforcement Agency, Cleveland Clinic - Wooster Pediatric Offices and Tri-County ESC offices. 

The exhibit is designed to:

  • Bring more K-6 children's artwork into the community;
  • Demonstrate the artistic development of K-6 students and the quality of art instruction taking place; and
  • To create an opportunity for elementary visual art teachers to work together to build a sense of unity, community and cooperation.

 

March 2024

During March come in and browse the artwork of students from Green Elementary School (K-5), Green Middle School (6),  Green Local Schools. These art exhibits will be displayed throughout the Tri-County Educational Service Center the entire month of March. Feel free to come and take a look at the artwork of our very talented students. 

"Best Of Show Artwork" 
 

 

Showcase for the Visual Arts

Showcase for Visual Art is designed to place professionally matted and framed student artworks in businesses, banks and offices of professionals throughout Ashland County.  Donations from sponsors are used to mat and frame the artwork and purchase a gift card for each student artist.  Artwork is displayed at the sponsor's business for one year, then returned to the school for display and eventually returned to the student artists.

Contact

For more information please contact Jennifer Marrah, Tri-County ESC Consultant at 330-345-6771 ext. 237

 

 

Wayne County Junior High Art Exhibit (Grades 7-8)

In March, talented art students receive the opportunity to have their works judged and displayed in a professional gallery setting at Wayne Center for the Arts.  Outstanding artworks created in junior high classrooms are selected for exhibition.  The exhibit promotes interest and support of visual art education programs while providing exposure to broad audience.

Contact

For more information details please contact:
Dr. Michelle Muro, Fine Arts Consultant
330-345-6771 ext. 253 or tesc_mmuro@tccsa.net

 

Wayne County High School Art Exhibit (Grades 9-12)

In April, Select high school artworks are professional exhibited in a gallery setting at Wayne Center for the Arts.  Students may submit entries in 17 categories, both 2D and 3D.  An evening art awards reception culminates this annual event.

Contact

For more information/details please contact:
Dr. Michelle Muro, Fine Arts Consultant
330-345-6771 ext. 253 or tesc_mmuro@tccsa.net

 

Wayne County Blue Ribbon Art Exhibit

In May, Blue ribbon first-place winners from the Wayne County Junior High and High School Art Exhibitions will be on display at Wooster Book Company downtown Wooster.  Categories of artwork include: color drawing, black and white drawing, watercolor painting, oil/acrylic painting, mixed media, 2-D designs, printmaking, photography, clay sculpture, non-clay sculpture, pottery, crafts, textiles, commercial art, jewelry, and digital/computer.

Contact

For more information/details please contact:
Dr. Michelle Muro, Fine Arts Consultant
330-345-6771 ext. 253 or tesc_mmuro@tccsa.net

 

Charter Visual Art Career Program

The Carter Aiden Winget Memorial Fund was established in 2013 in conjunction with the Heartland Education Community to provide inspirational programs for Tri-County high school students who are interested in pursuing an education or career in visual art.

Contact

For more information/details please contact:
Dr. Michelle Muro, Fine Arts Consultant
330-345-6771 ext. 253 or tesc_mmuro@tccsa.net

 

Drama/Theatre and Speech


Wayne County High School Play Festival

The purpose of the Wayne County One-Act Play Festival is to:
 

  • Promote excellence in secondary school theatre;
  • Create public awareness of the scope and quality of high school theatre programs;
  • Provide students with an opportunity for viewing one another's creative expressions, thereby enriching their experiences;
  • And provide high school drama teachers/coaches with a means for securing objective evaluations of their work.

      The Wooster Daily Record Article:  Locals Perform in Wayne County One-Act Play Festival

Contact

For more information/details please contact:
Dr. Michelle Muro, Fine Arts Consultant
330-345-6771 ext. 253 or tesc_mmuro@tccsa.net

 

Tri-County Speech Contest

The purpose of the Wayne County High School Speech Contest is to provide students with opportunities which promote educational, civic, social and moral development. The Tri-County High School Speech Contest complies with the rules and regulations of the Ohio School Speech League. It provides an educationally sound contest to provide a background for participation in sanctioned OSSL Tournaments on an extra-curricular basis.

     Event:      Tri-County Speech Contest
     Date:       Thursday, April 27, 2023
     Location:  First Presbyterian Church, Wooster, OH
     Time:        8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

     Sweepstakes winner:  Dalton Local Schools
    
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Additional Programs


Project Partnership

A series of monthly fine arts classes in visual art (2D), drama, creative movement and pottery are offered to high school special education students at Wayne Center for the Arts.  Arts lessons are designed to increase self-determination skills while encouraging students to make choices, take risks and improve their self-concept through exploration in fine arts classes.  The program ends with a special performance by a handicapped artist or musician to inspire students to overcome their disabilities.

          Project Partnership Activities Day was held on:  Friday, January 26, 2024

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Contact

For more information/details please contact:
Dr. Michelle Muro, Fine Arts Consultant
330-345-6771 ext. 253 or tesc_mmuro@tccsa.net

 

Holmes County "Celebration of the Arts"

Holmes County “Celebration of the Arts” is sponsored by the East Holmes and West Holmes Local Schools. The Holmes County “Celebration of the Arts” is designed to bring about a renewed recognition of the vital place of art and music education in our schools and to support the notion that the study of the arts leads to a fuller, more meaningful life, and that the training and skills gained through visual art and music opens new worlds to all involved. It is fitting for the Holmes County community to recognize that visual art and music education are an essential part of the learning process for our students.

 

Stained Glass Class

Students created a stained glass project, introducing them to the skills needed for more intricate projects.  Crafting with stained glass requires meticulous measurement, precise cutting, and much patience with yourself and the materials.  Students need to be able to take direction, follow safety rules, and persist with a project that will require some ‘do-overs.’  Patience, creativity and precision will paid off in a colorful glass composition.  See below for class projects (photos):

Stained Glass Class - with Mr. Lewellen, March 2016 at the Wayne Center for the Arts.

 

Fine Arts Services at Tri-County ESC


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Contact

Tri-County Educational Serivce Center Fine Arts Contact(s):

Dr. Michelle Muro, Fine Arts Consultant
Phone: (330) 345-6771 ext. 253
Email: tesc_mmuro@tccsa.net