The WCSD’s annual Community Arts Day, which took place Saturday at Webster Schroeder High School, is one of those events where I have to spend at least the first half hour just wandering around, figuring out the lay of the land. That’s because there’s so much going on, often at the same time. While dance groups frolic across the main stage, the talent show might be happening in the cafeteria. While SparX is demonstrating one of their robots in the gymnasium, small ensembles might be performing in the recital room. The organizers did their best to try to keep the conflicts to a minimum, but with so many talented groups wanting to strut their stuff in front of the Webster community, that was not always possible.
But, as you can see from all of the photos I took, I did the best I could to catch as many performances as possible, and lots of smiling faces at the information tables set up by dozens of community groups and businesses.
The organizers changed things up quite a bit this year. The first thing I noticed was that the usual table locations for all of the community groups had been moved around, which I realized when I stumbled upon the Webster Museum display pretty much right inside the front door. There were several places where kids could make crafts, including the new (to me), dedicated “kid’s zone” in the small auxiliary gymnasium. And there were some other new elements, like the “Spoken Word Poetry” opportunity where budding poets could share their work on stage.
But the main difference I saw was the explosion of crafters. One full half of the gymnasium was filled with craft vendors, and others lined nearby hallways. That took me a little by surprise, since to me it represented a shift in focus away from our students’ art and dance and musical accomplishments. But clearly the organizers knew what they were doing, because the halls were packed with people this year — and they probably raised a lot of money from all those craft vendors.
As always, though, our students’ artistic achievements were the real stars of the show. From the simple elementary school watercolors to the Schroeder and Thomas high school AP students’ pencil drawings, the talent flowed from the displays placed in the cafeteria, the hallways and the library. Some of them were so extraordinary, they stopped me in my tracks. And it was fun to see the pride and delight on the younger kids’ faces when they saw their own artwork on display.
If you weren’t able to make it out there this year, check out my Facebook photo gallery (and if you don’t have Facebook you can see the gallery here). The photos do a pretty good job capturing the Community Arts Day magic.
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(posted 4/12/2026)
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