WVIA Hosts the Artist Celebration on March 31 PITTSTON, PA (wvia) - WVIA spotlights performing and visual student artists from throughout northeast and central Pennsylvania during the Artist Celebration on Saturday, March 31 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the WVIA Studios in Pittston, PA. This event is free and open to the public.

The WVIA PNC Studio will be set-up as an exhibit hall that will showcase artwork from students who entered the Congressional Arts Competition and from our top visual artists in WVIA's Artist of the Week program.

Then attendees will be lead to the Sordoni High-Definition Theater for a concert involving the top performing student artists in WVIA's Artist of the Week Program.

After the concert, WVIA will announce the Artists of the Year in both the performing and visual categories. Also, the Congressional Arts Competition winners for both congressional districts will be revealed.

To reserve your free seats in the live audience in the Sordoni High Definition Theater during the concert portion of the event, please visit http://www.wviatv.org/hi-deftheaterentry.

WVIA's Artist of the Week and Artist of the Year educational programs are sponsored by NEIU 19 and the Pennsylvania College of Technology. The 2011-12 Artist of the Week video features can be viewed at http://www.wvia.org/educational.

Initiated by Members of the U.S. House of Representatives in 1982, the Congressional Arts Competition is a nationwide annual art competition that allows high school students from the fifty states, the District of Columbia, and territories to showcase their artistic ability. WVIA is proud to host the qualification for Congressmen Lou Barletta and Tom Marino for the 10th and 11th Congressional Districts. The First Place student from each district and his/her immediate family will travel to Washington, DC for the Artistic Discovery Exhibition Opening, where they will have their artwork displayed for one year in our nation's Capitol building.

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