Mosaic Arts Festival is Saturday
Clinton Elementary School art teacher Allison Swanner, left, and Alyssa Bowlin, art teacher at North and South Clinton elementary schools, look over some of the artwork created by their pupils on display at the Clinton Community Center during the Mosaic Arts Festival in April 2025. (photo:G. Chambers Williams III )
Visitors can see displays of original art created by students from the Clinton City Schools, along with arts and crafts booths in the parking lot across the street outside, next to the Clinton Public Library.
Also on South Hicks Street in front of the Community Center, there will be public performances by various groups, including the Clinton High School Jazz Band, Knoxville Children’s Theatre, Dream Dance Studio and more, beginning at 10 a.m.
Inside the library, there will be free craft activities for kids, and in the parking lot outside, there will be an array of food trucks and kiosks.
The Mosaic Color Run will kick off the event, beginning at 9 a.m. from the parking lot across from the Community Center. The rest of the event will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The main event, coordinated by art teachers from all three Clinton City Schools, will be the more than 1,000 pieces of artwork from the city’s schoolchildren on display inside the Community Center.
This year’s art theme for the Clinton elementary school students will be America’s 250th birthday, said Katherine Birkbeck, executive director of Historic Downtown Clinton.
Vendors will be set up in the parking lot next to the library featuring handmade ceramics and jewelry, acrylics, oil paintings, hand-painted bottles with fairy lights, bookmarks, wood carvings, hand lettering, edge art engravings, botanical illustrations, mixed media, and more.
The Mosaic Arts Festival is presented by Historic Downtown Clinton in conjunction with the city of Clinton and Clinton City Schools.
There are no admission charges to any of the events.
