MCCC to Host 10th Annual Tri-County High School Art Exhibition

The Reporter Staff•

Her Realizationlan, Photography, Jayden Robinson, Methacton High School

Montgomery County Community College is set to hold its 10th annual Tri-County High School Art Exhibition and Competition at the College’s North Hall Art Gallery of the Montco Cultural Center.

The exhibit, opening on Tuesday, Feb. 13, at 5 p.m., will feature 180 artworks in a variety of media, including oils, watercolors, ceramics, prints, sculpture and more, by student artists from 20 high schools across Montgomery, Berks and Chester counties, according to an MCCC press release.

"The exhibit is a glimpse of the remarkable projects that area art teachers are orchestrating with their students,” said Patrick Rodgers, MCCC galleries director. "Now in its 10th year, this exhibition has grown from a handful of schools to a dozen in 2018 to the 20 schools participating in this year’s show. The current exhibit features the work of more than 150 talented high school students from as far apart as Haverford and Reading. I am always in awe of the dedication of the art teachers involved in this show as well as the imagination of their students, and I’m so glad we can celebrate all of that together in Pottstown.”

This year’s juror is Rebecca Carpenter, a fine art photographer who taught art at the elementary and high school levels for 16 years. Her current work uses models and abandoned structures in Pennsylvania and elsewhere to create evocative and texturally rich photographs.

Carpenter selected a number of pieces for special recognition, including:

• Untitled drypoint etching, Hannah Woods, Upper Merion Area High School

• Human in Animal, linocut print, Yebin Adelyn Sim, The Hill School

• Memories, mixed media, Sophia Lapic, Pottsgrove High School

• Untitled, collage/mixed media/pop-up, Grace Kerschner, Governor Mifflin High School

• Illumination, mixed media, Kai Degenhardt, The Haverford School

• Untitled, Photoshop, Aimee White, Pottstown High School

• Untitled, Photoshop, Cindy Garcia Villegas, Pottstown High School

• Her Realization, Photography, Jayden Robinson, Methacton High School

• Double Exposure Hand, Digital photography, Paulina Villafana-Palmas, Plymouth Whitemarsh High School

• Skeletal Study, charcoal, Cassidy Colden, Spring-Ford Sr. High School

• I’m Baby, charcoal, Giana Crane, Owen J. Roberts High School

• To Ponder, chalk pastel, Dina Kim, Perkiomen Valley High School

• The Next Stop, Prisma and colored pencil, Kale Martin, Methacton High School

• Above the Surface, colored pencil, Yueming (Maggie) Qi, the Hill School

• 0.5, painting, Lucia Reeves, Springfield Township High School

• Refractions, oil on canvas, Alayna Rodner, Owen J. Roberts School District

• Diving into Childhood, gouache, Erica Dickey, Pottsgrove High School

• Wooden Gift, maple, cherry, and walnut, Talan Maury, The Haverford School

• Tea Set, white stoneware, Chad Endy, Boyertown High School

• Idyllic Struggles, Mixed media sculpture, Sara Yost, Pottsgrove High School

• Day of the Dead Liminary, laser-cut plywood and resin, Gregor Weissenberger, The Haverford School

This year’s Best in Show, a $50 award sponsored by the Pottstown Area Artists Guild, was awarded to Mia Y. Davis from Daniel Boone Area High School for the mixed media piece How You Want Me.

Opening night will feature a reception and an awards ceremony, with the ceremony beginning at 6 p.m. Both the reception and exhibit are free and open to the community. Convenient parking is available along High Street and in the college’s parking lot at 101 College Drive.

The exhibit will run through March 22 but will be closed from March 11 to 17 for spring break. The gallery hours are Monday through Thursday from 8 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. and Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., said the release.

MCCC’s Fine Arts galleries, located at both Pottstown and Blue Bell campuses, are part of the Montco Cultural Center and host a variety of exhibitions featuring professional and student artists and artwork in an array of genres, as well as related activities, programs and lectures.

For more information about the exhibit or MCCC’s galleries, contact Galleries Director Patrick Rodgers at [email protected] and visit mc3.edu/galleries.

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