On Thursday, May 25, The Walnut Hill School for the Arts held their Spring Visual Arts Show. Despite the rain that lingered throughout the evening, the Dartley Center (one of the school’s buildings on campus at 146 Bacon St.) was packed with a mix of students, faculty and community members.
Multiple floors were adorned with student work, filling rooms and even hallways with beautiful creations from the academic year. Students from ninth through twelfth grade worked in many mediums, including painting, photography, sculpture, printmaking and others.
Sandy Miao is a junior at Walnut Hill, and has taken an interest in ceramics. She created multiple cups during the year, but one particular cup with a green and blue glaze is her favorite. “I really like the color of the cup,” she said. “Ceramics is really hard because you cannot be sure of what will happen in the kiln. It came out really nice, so I was proud of it.”
Ceramics Instructor and Visual Art Studio Assistant Eileen de Rosas, Miao’s teacher, has high praise for her student. “She has good ideas and knows how to execute them. She’s really good on the wheel, and is a good sculptor as well,” de Rosas said.
Senior Maria Ilbarra del Villar’s favorite piece, a coiled sculpture of a human figure, was also her most challenging. “When I finally brought it into the kiln, it broke while it was inside,” she explained. “There’s a little gap in between the leg where the clay was separated.”
Despite this, she worked with the results, and her piece took on a new life. “I don’t care if mistakes happen. I think you need to adapt to them. I covered the crack with glue, and I loved it, and created a whole new concept for the piece.”
To learn more about the Walnut Hill School for the Arts, visit www.walnuthillarts.org.
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July, 2017
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