The Communique

Issue date: 2/14/08 Section: A&E

The winning artwork for the Corridor Jazz Project CD Cover design.

Press Release : February 11, 2008



Cheyanne McGrail, a junior at Kennedy High School in Cedar Rapids has been chosen as the winner of the Corridor Jazz Project CD Cover design. McGrail will receive a $100 cash prize from KCCK-FM and her design will adorn the cover of the first Corridor Jazz Project CD, a compilation of recordings from the top jazz bands from Jefferson, Kennedy, Linn Mar, Marion, Prairie, Washington, City and West High Schools.

The Corridor Jazz Project CDs, along with tickets for the CD Release Concert, April 17 at Hancher Auditorium, will go on sale March 15th.

McGrail's intricate drawing of a saxophone with abstract forms and colors exploding from it, was chosen out of nearly 100 entries from art students in Iowa City, Cedar Rapids and Marion high schools. Her original art piece, along with runner-up designs will be displayed at M.C. Ginsberg Jewelers, 110 E. Washington St., Iowa City from March 1 - April 17th. On April 17th the entries will be on display at Hancher Auditorium during the concert.

Judges for the CD art contest were Bob Naujoks, art faculty at Mt. Mercy College, Tonya Kehoe and David Brandstatter, art faculty at Kirkwood Community College, graphic designer John Foster of Avatar Design, and Miriam Landmark, of M.C. Ginsberg Jewelers.

The Corridor Jazz Project is a jazz education and mentoring program for jazz band students at the eight public high schools in Cedar Rapids and Iowa City. The program, developed as a part of the education outreach of Jazz 88.3 KCCK, matches each school's top jazz band with a professional jazz player, who performed as a guest soloist with the band. The subsequent recordings have been collected and are being produced on a compilation CD, the first of its kind in the Corridor. CDs will be made available to each school to sell and keep the proceeds. CDs will be available at local retail outlets as well.

Support for the Corridor Jazz Project comes from Rockwell Collins, The Momentum Fund of the Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation, Hancher Auditorium, M.C. Ginsberg Jewelers and West Music.

Jazz 88.3 KCCK is the public radio station operated as a part of the community outreach of Kirkwood Community College.

For more information, visit www.kcck.org or call 319-398-5446.

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