The Tarble Arts Center will present the spring junior-senior high school enrichment program, Tuesday as part of the “Companions and Choices: Quilts and Paintings” exhibition.

The program is offered to junior and senior high school art classes in the seven-county area, which includes Coles, Clark, Cummberland, Douglas, Edgar, Mulltree and Shelbyville counties, Kit Morice, Tarble’s curator of education, said Monday.

This program combines a tour and studio experience that exposes junior and senior high students and teachers to creative ideas and concepts.

Michael Watts, director of the Tarble Arts Center, said in an e-mail that students and teachers will be touring the “Companion and Choices: Quilts and Paintings” exhibition, which presents 16 quilts by some of the best known quilt makers, paired with a companion painting or collage created by Rod Buffington, the exhibition’s watercolor artist and curator.

Morice said that the students will be taken into a classroom to make a sketch of their design in the studio. They will then create their own collage using fabrics in order to relay their emotion, she said.

Morice also mentioned that the junior-senior high enrichment program will be presented by Eastern art education students and will run from Tuesday until Feb. 27.

The program is free to junior and senior high students and teachers, but the Tarble Arts Center has asked to keep the group size to 25 students in order to have a quality experience.

Groups need to pre-register for the program by calling Morice at 581-2787 from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.