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When school resumes next month Ringgold High School’s campus will be missing one of its salient features, the Beth Kellerhals Center for Visual Arts.
Not only will the building be missed, the materials inside – some acquired at great cost and over a period of years – are no more.
The tornado that struck in April crushed the former public library that had been converted into a gallery, studios and art library. That means art classes will take place in makeshift space for the foreseeable future.
“Maybe in two years we will have something similar [to the Kellerhals Center], but this year we will have two large classrooms in the tech wing,” art teacher Lacey Jones said. “It was almost like the art department was their refuge on campus. That [loss of the Kellerhals Center] was a hard hit to the kids. Their work was gone, their classrooms were gone, their place was gone and there was a level of fear that the arts would be dropped from the curriculum.”