VALDOSTA — Nearly two dozen students from Perry High School recently visited the Annette Howell Turner Center for the Arts. 

The AP students and teacher Cathy Heller traveled by bus to Valdosta to view the Youth Art Month exhibition and more specifically the 2019 VSU Invitational High School Art Competition in the center’s galleries. 

While at the arts center, students were treated by staff to a Black-Out Poetry workshop, which taught the students that art can effectively tell a story and is compelling, interesting and engaging, center representatives said. 

Heller and her students traveled more than 125 miles to visit the art center, evidence of the regional impact the Turner Center has on the local and state arts industry, center representatives said. 

For more information on local arts, visit www.turnercenter.org.