Eastern’s Tarble Arts Center will host a docent meeting highlighting new exhibits Monday.

The meeting covering tours of current Tarble exhibits will be held from 10 a.m. to noon at the Tarble Arts Center.

The exhibits featured in the tours are “Companions and Choices: Quilts and Paintings” and “Photographic Images and the History of African Americans in Coles County.”

Kit Morice, curator of education at Tarble, said that the tours will be interesting to the public because they offer visuals that are pleasing to the eye.

“The tours will also provide docent information and vocabulary about specific pieces,” Morice said.

Morice said that all of the exhibits are equally interesting, but the photographs of African Americans in Coles County are “exceptional.”

Morice commented that she never realized there was such a “rich history of African Americans in Coles County,” which could be intriguing to students not from this area.

Morice also mentioned that “Companions and Choices: Quilts and Paintings” is also very interesting.

“The quilt and painting exhibits are colorful and visually pleasing,” Morice said.

She also said that the meeting would make these specific exhibits “also interesting to anyone who enjoys art, not just the docent staff.”

When asked what her favorite exhibit was, Morice said she cannot choose one because they are both beautiful.

However, Morice did say there are “a couple of quilts that I would gladly take home and hang on my wall.”

The meeting is open to the volunteer docent staff as well as the public.

The tours are informal and free of charge. Eastern students and faculty are encouraged to attend.