3rd Annual Mamaroneck High School Student Art Exhibit Opens in April

The Larchmont Public Library is pleased to announce the opening of the third annual student art exhibit featuring works by students enrolled in the Drawing and Painting program at Mamaroneck High School. The exhibit, which opens in the library’s Oresman Gallery on Tuesday, April 4th, will run through April 28 and is available for viewing during normal library hours.

The exhibit will feature artworks across a variety of styles and mediums by fourteen students from Drawing and Painting classes taught at Mamaroneck High School. The participating students are Madelin Alvarez (grade 12), Natalie Hofstedt (grade 11), Jaclyn Poniros (grade 10), Sara Reich (grade 11), Corin Snyder (grade 10), Thalia Villatoro (grade 11), Julia Rothman (grade 10), Sophia Glinski (grade 10), Eleni Orfanos (grade 10), Jeeyeon Barnes (grade 10), Josie Steinberg (grade 10), Michaela Gualano (grade 10), Ava Frank (grade 10), and Justin Fanelli (grade 10). The exhibit is an annual event, taking place in the Oresman Gallery April each year.

“We’re very glad to have this chance for our students – particularly our middle-level students – to exhibit their artwork in a very nice, serious venue in the community”, said Kevin Klein, Chairman of the Art Department at Mamaroneck High School. “It’s exciting for the students to have the prospect of a real off-campus show in front of them. It spurs them to work extra hard to perfect their pieces and helps them to magically find the extra hours to do this. In addition, a show also gives the students some very real and persuasive compensation for their labor when people come to admire and praise it. It is a very authentic sort of assessment for their art. We’re grateful that the Larchmont Public Library can help us do this.”

The students in this exhibit are currently taking the Drawing Painting class at Mamaroneck High School, the second in the 4 year sequence of courses in this media area. MHS has a strong, sequential program in drawing and painting that builds on past learning and prepares students for the rigors of an art and design education in all different media after high school, if they choose to follow this path. In Drawing & Painting, students work intensively with problems of representing forms three-dimensionally in space by drawing and painting a variety of subjects. They also explore more deeply color theory and linear and atmospheric perspective that they began to study last year in Art Foundation. In addition, the students begin to learn to work independently outside of class, and practice their art analysis skills by discussing work in-group critiques in the classroom. "

The annual exhibit is designed to bring the community together in a celebration of art and the Library is the perfect place for the annual exhibit to take place.