It’s almost time for the Parrish Art Museum’s annual Student Exhibition, an almost 70-year-old tradition. The 2023 Student Exhibition, on view from March 12 to April 16, features the work of over 1,000 artists from schools on eastern Long Island. Participating students work with their school art teachers and art clubs to create paintings, sculptures, drawings and photographs. This year’s exhibition also features artworks by students who worked in collaboration with this year’s visiting artist, Darlene Charneco.
Martha Stotzky, Deputy Director of Arts Education for the Parrish, invites everyone in the local community to see the student art show. “The annual Student Exhibition is such a wonderful celebration of the students and art teachers on Eastern Long Island. I encourage everyone to come be inspired by the innate creativity that exists in all of us!”
About the visiting artist: Darlene Charneco is a NYC born contemporary LatinX artist whose tactile mixed-media artworks explore people, networks, homes, and communities as part of a larger organism’s growth stage. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States at venues including the Katonah Museum, the Hunterdon Museum, the Islip Art Museum and the Parrish Art Museum, and is featured in a recent book The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography by Katherine Harmon.
Here’s the schedule:
Saturday, March 11 is Exhibition Preview Day, when admission will be free.
11am to 12pm: Gallery preview
12 to 2 pm: Reception for Young Artists (Pre-K through grade 8) 2 to 4 pm: reception for High School Artists
Guests will enjoy refreshments including cookies from the Museum Cafe by Elegant Affairs, plus live performances by musician/storyteller/naturalist Johnny Cuomo.
Schools participating in this year’s Student Exhibition include
High Schools: Bellport, Bridgehampton, Center Moriches, East Hampton, Eastport South Manor, Gary D. Bixhorn Technical Center, Hampton Bays, Mattituck, Miller Place, Pierson, Riverhead, The Ross School, Shelter Island, Shoreham Wading River High School, Southampton High School, US Autism Home: Luv Michael, Westhampton Beach, and William Floyd.
Elementary, Middle School and Community Organizations: Bridgehampton School, Bridgehampton Child Care Recreation Center, Children’s School, The Child’s Garden Forest Preschool, Cutchogue East Elementary School, Dayton Avenue School, East Hampton Middle School, East Quogue Elementary School, Flora and Fauna: A Forest School, Hayground School, It Takes a Village, John M. Marshall Elementary School, The New Suffolk School, Oysterponds Elementary School, Pulaski Street Intermediate School, The Ross Lower School, Sagaponack School, Sag Harbor Elementary, Shelter Island, Southampton Elementary School, Southampton Intermediate, Southampton Montessori School, South Street School, Springs School, Westhampton Beach Middle School.
Schools and organizations participating in Darlene Charneco Residency: Bridgehampton Child Care Recreation Center, Town of Southampton Youth Bureau, Southampton, East Hampton and Hampton Bays Life Skills Classes, Students from East Hampton, Southampton, Springs and Tuckahoe school districts.
Exhibition Support
The Artist-in-Residence program, the 2023 Student Exhibition, and related educational programs are supported, in part, by property taxpayers from the Southampton School District with additional funding from Milford D. and Janice B. Gerton/Arts and Letters Foundation; May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, The John J. McDonnell Margaret T. O’Brien Foundation, Bobbie Braun/The Neuwirth Foundation, and a donor who wishes to remain anonymous.
“The annual Student Exhibiton is such a wonderful celebration of the students and art teachers on Eastern Long Island. I encourage everyone to come be inspired by the innate creativity that exists in all of us!”
