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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: 03 May 2006 SUBJECT: Good Hope Student Art Show and The Sound of Music
Thursday, May 4 through Saturday, May 6 from 7:30-9:30pm, over 230 students at The Good Hope School will be displaying approximately 300 works of original art at the Campus Center. The opening night reception will be Thursday at 6:30pm and the public is invited to attend. Every student involved in the expansive art program at Good Hope will have work represented. Displaying a wide range of skills, the students' artwork reflects not only their originality, but also their mastery of historical periods, cultures, and techniques. Working within a rigorous, sequential program that includes drawing, color technique, and applications in mediums from pen and ink, paper mache, print making, watercolor, oil, and ceramics, to life-size sculpture, Good Hope students are immersed throughout their academic careers in the visual arts, frequently achieving both local and national attention. For the past two years a Good Hope senior has taken first place in the VI Congressional Art Show . Directed by Phyllis Comber Biddle and Pedra Chaffers, both working artists on St. Croix , the Good Hope visual arts program encompasses every student from PreK through Senior. Ms. Biddle, who received her training at Yale University Art School, and Virginia Commonwealth University, has taught for twenty-three years and for the last six years at Good Hope. Ms. Chaffers received her training at the University of Michigan School of Art, and came to Good Hope from the New York City public schools and the Studio Museum in Harlem. Prior to New York she was an Education Specialist at the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, DC. She has been teaching for seven years and for the last two years at Good Hope. The Student Art Show coincides with the production of The Sound of Music, also this weekend. While the Art Show is open with no charge to the public, the musical, with curtain Thursday through Saturday night at 7:30, has a $10 adult and $5 student admission charge. The public is cordially invited to attend. ### |
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