Students in Panther Valley School District will be hosting an art show and band concert on Tuesday at the high school.

The evening will begin at 6 p.m. with a visual arts fair that will highlight the work of students in the high school art classes from this past year. They have been working hard throughout the year learning specific techniques and finding ways to create personal imagery which make statements about the world and culture. Topics such as portraiture, memorials, landscapes, color theory, shading, and, media techniques, such as linoleum printing, pastel, acrylic, and slip trailing will be showcased.An unveiling of the National AIE (Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Artist in Residence program) panther mural will be shown to the public for the first time.Michael Pyrdsa, contemporary photorealist and muralist, who lives in Schuylkill County, has been working on transfer and shading techniques with the students.Pyrdsa has worked in studio painting for over 30 years, winning awards and has been featured in numerous collections and galleries in Northeastern United States. He has created series of paintings of New Jersey coastal architecture, and Pennsylvania landscapes, and was commissioned in 2010 to work with the state's Mural Arts Program.For the past four years the students have been able to work with a local artist in the creation of a final project. The Allentown Art Museum educator manager, Kathy Odorizzi, has helped to organize this program, which has been an invaluable experience for our students.During the art show, student musicians will be performing in the hallways.The concert will begin at 7 p.m. and will feature students from elementary, middle school and high school band.The elementary school band will start the program with "The Star Spangled Banner." They will perform several numbers before the middle school band will take the state. Some of their numbers will include "Applause" and Michael Jackson's "Bad."The high school band will follow. Some of its numbers will include "Appalachian Morning" and "Let It Go." The high school handbell choir will perform two numbers: "Tranquil Chimings" and "Danza."