The organization.

Louisville Visual Art has been around for more than 100 years.

Last week, its Children's Fine Art class program hosted a luncheon to fundraise and honor senior students who have been taking classes since they were young.

We spoke to the education director and some students to hear why Alva and Art are important to them.

More on this and our weekly arts and culture segment we call tapestry.

The children's fine Art classes is celebrating its 100th birthday.

Louisville Visual Artists is over 100 years old now that, it's amazing because, art is such an important part of everybody's life, but they have no idea that art was involved in designing the buttons on your blender or, you know, designing how cool comfortable a chair is going to be, or even the springs in your mattress or the foam in your mattress nowadays.

But the art is involved in all of that, and people don't realize and we need to get, kiddos to know that all this art education is going to help them be better thinkers.

It makes your brain actually work in different ways.

Art does.

It gives you better problem solving skills.

It gives you better critical thinking.

I teach drawing to.

And I teach, middle school art.

I love working with kids.

I love seeing them grow.

I love seeing them, progress.

It's important because students get to take art in a different location other than their schools, and be probably a little more loose and a little more creative.

I like mixed media, but, mostly oil paint.

I think a lot of it came from like, wanting to get, physical stimulus and being able to do things with my hands.

I like that I can express myself and what I'm feeling.

Maybe not in words, but through action and, color especially.

I like color that way.

So nice to see all the work that I've done, and all the other seniors have done represented for me.

Art has always been a way to sort of express things that I'm not able to say in words.

So important for students to be able and anyone to be able to find outlets like this to express themselves.

I'm drawn in a logical direction, so I always want art to be something important to me, whether it's through fashion design or cosmetology.

LBA I think, has been like sort of a constant, creativity outlet for me to connect with people who also are creative.

It's fun to have a community of people who also do that and not feel alone.

I've seen many of my students become artists.

Many of my students become doctors, are working in the medical field and all kinds of other fields.

I've seen them because art centers them.

It makes them feel good about themselves.

When I started teaching LBA, the students were talented and gifted and so therefore that was a different type of kid that I was teaching, and it made me enjoy and love what I was doing.

I have kids who still hang around, who were started in fourth and fifth grade, and they're professionals and they're best friends always now.

So, it's it's a good way to get people thinking differently, to get people creating and solving problems better.

The main thing that I want is for people to help each other and figure out how to help each other and work together, and can also make things a little bit easier.

They're holding their celebration this weekend.

On Sunday at Louisville Visual Art by hosting Centennial Family Fun Day at 230 Eastern Time.

Families can learn more about LVA history and do some fun activities at the same time.