Canfield students display artwork at two-night art show
Neighbors | Elise McKeown Skolnick .Meredith Kubic displays her artwork at the Canfield High School art show.
Neighbors | Elise McKeown Skolnick .Megan Factor is shown with her artwork at that art show at Canfield High School.
Neighbors | Elise McKeown Skolnick .Students artwork was displayed at the Canfield High School art show.
Neighbors | Elise McKeown Skolnick .Adam Nye, a senior at Canfield High School, provided musical entertainment the second night of the Art Show.
Neighbors | Elise McKeown Skolnick .Canfield High School students art work was displayed at the art show.
By ELISE McKEOWN SKOLNICK
Charcoal drawings, watercolor paintings, ceramic pieces and more filled the Canfield High School gymnasium May 23 for the art show. They were placed on tables, hung on the bleachers and on free-standing walls brought in for that purpose. The works were the creations of students in kindergarten through twelfth-grade in the Canfield school district.
“Art brings out the best in the students,” said Kate Bernard, high school art teacher. “Even those students who say they can only draw a stick figure, they are just amazed at what they can do by the end of Art 1.”
Megan Factor, a junior, had several pieces in the two-night show. One, a black and white charcoal drawing, was a replica of a photo of her mother’s family taken in the 1940s. She didn’t let her mother see the project during the two months it took to complete it.
“She was really happy with it,” Factor said.
Factor likes the creative aspect of art.
“You can really do whatever you want and just be passionate about certain things,” she said. “And it’s just a good way to express yourself.”
Looking at the wall filled with her art pieces, Factor said. “I feel very accomplished. I’m glad that people think my art is good. I tried really hard.”
It was the first time junior Meredith Kubic had artwork in the show.
“It’s pretty cool,” she said. “I really like the art show.”
Her entry was a computer graphics project completed with Catherine Brown. For the project, Kubic replaced faces in a Phantom of the Opera picture with her own face.
“It was really difficult,” Kubic noted.
“The show is amazing,” said Lisa Donaldson, mother of Canfield students Emily and Joshua. Emily, a fourth-grade student, created a ceramic pot.
“This is her first time, and she’s so excited to have something here,” Donaldson said. “She’s interested in art. She’s looking at all the older kids’ [pieces], kind of getting inspired.”