Moon Drops by Shelby McGill
Studio Art, Drawing- Painting, and Independent students have been busy creating wonderful works of art over the first 30 weeks of the school year!
Thirteen students recently competed against approximately 80 other artworks submitted from schools including Little Falls, Illion, Dolgeville, Poland, Mohawk, West Canada Valley, and Herkimer at the 15th Annual High School Congressional Art Exhibit. The exhibit was held at the Cogar Gallery at Herkimer County Community College. The Closing Reception for this show was March 28.
Submitting artists Allyson Brosemer, Alexis Dolan, Shelby McGill, Lindsay Payne, Nicole Redpath, Autumn Townsend, Lexie Haehl, Camry Liddle, and Shelby Egnazych represented the TOW brilliantly!
Autumn Townsend and Shelby McGill
Studio Art students submitting for the first time included, Chloe Brosemer, Megan Greene, Becky Sessions, and Chelby Simpson.
In talking with HCCC Art Department Chair Bruce Schwa-bach, he said he was very impressed with our work for the third year in a row. The work that our students create is some of the best each year.
It is important for our young artists to experience the process involved with submitting and participating in a regional juried show.
Congratulations to Shelby McGill! Her surrealistic acrylic painting of flowers, Moon Drops, was one of six works selected at the show sponsored by Congress-man Richard Hanna to represent the 24th Congressional District of NYS in a regional competition at Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute/ Pratt School in May.
If her piece is selected as the winner of this regional show it will then hang at the Nation’s Congressional Office in Washington D.C. for one year.
Thank you, all brave and creative participants. Thank you, parents for allowing your children to partake in this Art Exhibition and fostering the arts within your home.
I look forward to submitting more work to shows of this wonderful caliber in the future. I am incredibly proud of all my students and excited to see their artistic interest continually growing as I conclude my third year as the K-12 Art Teacher at Town of Webb Union Free School District.
During the month of May art students will be busy preparing for several events including a visit to the Clark Art Institute and Williams College of Art Museum in Massachusetts.
They will be conducting their own Native American Pit Firing. Also, selected high school students will be submitting work to the Tri-County Art Show to be held in Watertown at the Dellus State Office Building.
In conclusion, we plan and hope to see you at VIEW for our Summer ninth through12th grade Student Exhibit. The opening reception will be held Saturday June 1, from 1 to 3 p.m.
