Blue Room Gallery Reopens to Familiar Praise
After a successful debut last spring, the Blue Room Gallery is back for its sophomore season run. The gallery features the top works produced by Huntington High School art program students and this year’s opening exhibit is setting a high standard for those to follow in coming months.
The Blue Room was carved out of an elevated stage area in the school’s south cafeteria. The Huntington Foundation for Excellence in Education contributed development funds. The gallery, which formally opened last April 25, was given its name by the students themselves.
The gallery is open this fall on Tuesday and Thursday from about 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. It is staffed by high school student art docents. Plans are being developed to add additional hours to the schedule, including during evening special events at the school, providing access to community members. The gallery is open to the public in the afternoon for each new show.
In the first exhibit of the current school year, art students Katherine Beavers, Christine Kang, Marissa Rosenfeld and Daniele Siele have works on display. The students were initially selected by their art teachers late last spring to participate in a prestigious summer show for young artists at the Huntington Public Library in the facility’s new lower level art gallery. The three week exhibit there was viewed by thousands of community members and featured a festive reception.
Ms. Beavers work features expressive paintings of the human form, which was the focus of her Advanced Placement Art Studio project. Ms. Kang is exhibiting her drawings of fashion designs, selected from the work she created in Huntington’s fashion and design illustration program. It includes a banner of 56 different fashion illustrations.
Ms. Rosenfeld is displaying highly detailed and stunning computer graphics work, produced in the computer graphics program. Ms. Siele is showing extraordinary and vibrant colored pencil drawings, which formed the focus of her AP Art Studio project.
All four student-artists are interested in pursuing careers in the visual arts and are serving as interns in high school art program this fall, under the mentorship of art faculty. The depth of quality in the current Blue Room Gallery exhibit has sometimes caused visitors to forget they are viewing the work of high school artistsand not seasoned professionals.
Future exhibits will feature work from high school art classes, art career interns and art honor society members. Several art student interns are expected to serve as the curators of the gallery. They will design the exhibits, send out invitations and announcements, create gallery guides for visitors and organize a schedule of student docents to guide visitors through the exhibits.
For more information about the gallery or to arrange a personal tour call 673-2106.
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