Eastchester High School students of Advanced Studio in Art and Communication Design 3D Dom De Vito, Sylvia Lee, Angela Lee, and Joseph Blau have been working with an architect from Learning by Design and Lincoln Center this semester. Four students will be exhibiting their architectural models at the Building Connections: 12th Annual Exhibit of K-12 Design Work at the NY Center For Architecture Foundation which opens June 13 and will run through August 23rd.
Winners of the annual Eastchester High School Film Festival include:
Best Film - Alex Watson-Eng, A Creative World
Best Story in Film - Greg Rocco, Anthony Menna & Kevin Doherty, To Protect & Serve
Best Cinematography for a Film - Patrick McDevitt, No Regrets
Best Editing for a Film - Alex Watson-Eng, A Creative World
Honorable Mention for Film - Andrea DeLuca, Christian Orlando & David Perlleshi- Trapped
Best Music Video - Patrick McDevitt, Get Out the Door
Best Cinematography for a Music Video - Christian Orlando, Pierre Piscitelli, Life Is What You Make It
Best Editing for a Music Video - Alex Watson-Eng & Anthony D'Amico, Somewhere I Belong
Honorable Mention for Music Video - Andrea DeLuca & Nick Luna, Somebody's Baby
The following Eastchester High School students participated in the first annual "Through Nature's Eyes" Art Show at the Eastchester Public Library from May 21-May 30. The exhibit was sponsored by the local Nature Preserve Youth Advisory Board and showcased student work from Bronxville, Eastchester and Tuckahoe High Schools.
Eastchester students include: Robert Mariani, Joseph Blau (1st Place Color Photography), Meghan Ryan, Barbara Paulus, Marissa Gaspari, Coleen Stewart, Rosemarie Salanitro, Tara Byrne ( 2nd Place B & W Photography), Nicholas Parisi, Sarah Gurian, Emily Mc Mahon (1st Place B & W Photography), Miri Lee, (2nd Place Drawing and Painting), Tom Snyder (3rd Place Drawing and Painting), Rebecca Gibson, Abigail Dieuveuille (1st Place Mixed Media Category), Ben Molinas (2nd Place Mixed Media), Joe Retta (Honorable Mention Mixed Media), Stephanie Sala (3rd Place Mixed Media), Callan Rogers, Allison Batty, Jaan Grondahl, Emily Saraco, Liz Byrnes.
Eastchester High School sophomore Tara Byrne was a winner in the 2008 Teen Photo Contest sponsored by Astoria Federal Savings Bank. Of 964 photographs entered, 12 winning entries were chosen. The winners will each receive $250 and their school art departments will be awarded $100. A reception was held for all winners on June 5 at the bank’s corporate headquarters in Lake Success, NY.
EHS art students displayed pieces of art at the High School Invitational: Small Works and Exhibition 2008, held at Pace Univeristy in February. Students displaying artwork were: Michael Aiello, 9th grade (Studio Art); Victoria DeBenedictus, 9th grade(Studio Art); Kathryn Schaefer, 10th grade; Zoe Kheyman, 11th grade.
HS juniors Gabrielle Tuite and Rebecca Moloney have been accepted into the New York Summer School of the Arts Visual Arts program. This scholarship-based program is offered to qualified students for an intensive four week session held in Fredonia, NY. It is specifically designed to emphasize art experiences that cannot normally be undertaken during a regular classroom setting. Students will work in the studio with drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, mixed media, figure and interdisciplinary arts under the direction of noted exhibiting artists/educators.
EHS film students Alex Watson-Eng, Greg Rocco and Patrick McDevitt had their short films shown at the Westchester International Film Festival in March. Patrick's film, Corrupted, won 2nd place out of the 21 films entered by high school students. He won $500 and the school’s film program was granted $500.An article in the March 2 Arts and Entertainment section of the New York Times highlighted the High School’s film and video program.
EHS seniors in the Portfolio Prep/AP Art class participated in a recent High School Women's Art Show at the College of New Rochelle. Displaying work were: Lauren Benson, an Award Recipient, shown above with Dr. Richard Thompson, Dean of CNR’s School of Arts and Sciences; Meredith Ribeiro, Selina Ruzi, and Callan Rodgers-Grazado.