Artwork from students across District 64 is on display during March at the Park Ridge Public Library in celebration of Youth Art Month throughout Illinois.
The special exhibit showcases students’ creativity using many different mediums and tools to produce their art, and illustrates how students’ skills broaden as they advance through the art curriculum.
The 2018 artists and their works selected for the exhibit include:
- Carpenter - Sofia Pelyno, grade 2 - “Give Peace a Chance” Printmaking; Michael Plaza, Domenic Conversa, Emma Brown, grade 3 - “Round and Round”, Radial/Concentric Yarn Drawings; Elizabeth Filatov, grade 4 - Gothic Rose Window Design; and Elay Maalouf, grade 5 - Indonesian Style Shadow Puppet
- Emerson - Julia Dudlak, grade 8 - Amphitheater, Black and White Photography; Maeve McDonough, grade 8 - My Dog, Pencil and Colored Pencil Drawing; Anna Kobylarczyk, grade 8 - Maple Leaf Bowl, Ceramic Vessel; and Hannah Somer, grade 7 - Twin Dolphins / Paper Quilling
- Field - Matthias (Mattie) Shkurti, grade 1 - “Lady Liberty,” Oil Pastel & Paint; Ella Piazza, grade 4 - “My Dream Bedroom,” Colored Pencil; Leahcim Sevilla, grade 5 - “Kaleidoscope Name Design,” Marker & Paper; and Siméon Ducrozet, grade 5 - "Metal Tooling,” Metal, Ink, & Colored Pencil
- Franklin - Celina Tran, grade 4 - “Home” / Google Image, Acrylic on Tracing Paper; Emerson DeLaCruz, grade 3 - “Stopping By Woods” Mixed Media; and Meadow Masse, grade 5 - “Chihuly Sculpture” Mixed Media
- Lincoln - Maeve O’Hara, grade 8 - Acrylic Paint on Wood / Birch Trees; Eve Belton, grade 8 - Acrylic Paint on Wood / Wave; Kendall Rink, grade 8 - Acrylic Paint on Wood / Moon; Olivia Carolan, grade 8 - At Home in Heaven/ Black and White Photo; and Nicole Vergara, grade 8 - Bird’s Flower / Copper Tooling
- Roosevelt - Laila AbuKhalaf, grade 2 - “Chicago Picasso” / Watercolor; Mason Schilling, grade 2 - “American Flag” / Watercolor; Madeline Kron, grade 5 - “Tints and Shades Op Art” / Watercolor; Ava Kontuly, grade 5 - “Op Art” / pencil and Sharpie; and Kara Chaplin, grade 5 - “Op Art” / pencil and Sharpie
- Washington - Keira Lawrence, grade 4 - Day of the Dead skull; Brayden Moy, grade 3 - Symmetrical African inspired mask; and Anna Virlo, grade 5 - Picasso-inspired Cubist portrait
Youth Art Month is sponsored by the Illinois Art Education Association to specifically highlight visual art. It is an outgrowth of Illinois Arts Education Week (March 12-18, 2018), an annual initiative sponsored cooperatively by the Illinois Alliance for Art Education (IAAE), the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE), and the Governor's Office. The initiative reinforces the importance of the arts in the growth and development of all Illinois students.
A view of the second floor display case at the library:
