Our annual Spring Art Show opened on May 19 concurrent with our 4th-12th Grade Spring Band and Choral Concert. Students, family members, and friends enjoyed walking the first floor hallways before and after the concert to view paintings, sculptures, collages, scratch art, origami, and other artwork created by students from the 1st-12th grades that was on display on the hallway walls.
High school artwork that had competed in the recent Atlantic County Teen Arts Festival was also on display in the gym. Artwork in the Art Show will remain on display until the end of the school year.
During the concert, Elementary Principal Gail Alford recognized and thanked art teacher Sherry Mirakian for putting together an outstanding art show. She also announced that Mirakian is retiring after leading the ACS Art Department since 2017. Prior to coming to ACS, Mirakian taught art for 31 years at the William Davies Middle School in Mays Landing.
Artwork created by three ACS high school students has been selected to be part of the NJ Teen Arts Festival. From left: Art teacher Sherry Mirakian, 12th grader Kami DeNick, 11th grader Amber Ramos, and 12th grader Haoshen (Katherine) Kong.
Congratulations to three ACS high school students — Kami DeNick, Haoshen (Katherine) Kong, and Amber Ramos — who received high marks from judges for the spring Atlantic County Teen Arts Festival and whose artwork has advanced to be part of the 2021 NJ State Teen Arts Festival, which opened online on June 1. The students’ artwork is being showcased in the festival, along with other winning entries, on the njteenarts.com website for the entire year until next year’s festival.
For the state-level festival, in the Visual Arts 2D gallery on the website, Kami’s pastel and oil painting, entitled “Show Love,” and Katherine’s water color and pen drawing, entitled “Dun Huang Mural,” are 2 of 17 featured entries by students from Atlantic County. Amber Ramos’ 3D sculpture, created using wire and cardboard and entitled, “Rose,” is 1 of 3 featured entries from Atlantic County in the Visual Arts 3D gallery of the online NJ Teen Arts Festival.
“I am very pleased that once again several of our students have been recognized for their creative and artistic talents as part of this annual festival,” said art teacher Sherry Mirakian. “Our students are competing with their peers across the county and the state and they are having success.” Mirakian also noted that senior Katherine Kong has been accepted to the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where she will continue to develop her artistic skills in the fall.
Mirakian submitted artwork from 13 ACS high school students for the Atlantic County festival in mid-April. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the festival was held virtually and photos of all artwork were submitted for judging. For the county-level festival, students from 12 public or private schools, 1 piano studio, ,and 1 dance studio submitted 177 entries for judging.
CLICK HERE to view the ACS students’ artwork on the NJ Teen Arts Festival website.
Our annual Spring Art Show opened on May 19 concurrent with our 4th-12th Grade Spring Band and Choral Concert. Students, family members, and friends enjoyed walking the first floor hallways before and after the concert to view paintings, sculptures, collages, scratch art, origami, and other artwork created by students from the 1st-12th grades that was on display on the hallway walls.
