All Are Welcome to Tour the Galleries on May 19th during Celebrate the Arts Night
Kaitlin Brannon Slap Not
East Providence, RI ??? The strength of Bay View Academy???s Visual Arts program has been demonstrated once again, as the list of college acceptances is made official. Members of Bay View???s Class of 2016 were accepted to some of the most competitive art schools in the country and abroad, including Rhode Island School of Design, Central St Martins University of the Arts London, Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Savannah College of Art and Design, Maryland Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine College of Art, California College of the Arts San Francisco, Art Center College of Design LA, Columbia College of Chicago and School of Visual Arts NYC.
On May 19th, Bay View Academy will open its doors from 5:00 – 8:00 PM for the community to view student artwork, in addition to performances by the Chamber Chorus and Orchestra. All are welcome to attend, free of charge.
Abigail Tidwell – Best in Show
Earlier this year, Bay View Academy Middle and Upper School students earned a total of 16 awards and seven Honorable Mentions in the Scholastic Art Award competition. This included a national ???best in show??? honor, the American Vision Award. Freshman Kaitlin Brannon (Warwick) won the award for her sculpture, ???Slap Not!??? which she created in Bay View???s eighth grade Design Concepts class. Of 320,000 submissions of art and writing for this awards competition, only 2,400 win national medals, putting Kaitlin???s work in the top 1% of the country. Kaitlin will attend the National Ceremony at Carnegie Hall on June 2nd.
Locally, seven Bay View students were accepted into the Central Congregational Gallery???s annual ???All Things Possible??? High School Art Show. All the participants receive a citation from the Lieutenant Governor???s office for their creative achievements. Senior Abigail Tidwell (Rehoboth), who earlier this year won a Gold Key and the General Federation of Women???s Club of Rhode Island Award for Mixed Media in the Scholastic Art Awards, also was honored with a ???Best in Show??? at the All Things Possible art show.
Central Congregational Gallery???s All Things Possible High School Art Show Winners:
Abigail Tidwell – Best in Show (senior, Rehoboth, MA)
Isabelle Lucente – First Place (junior, Warwick, RI)
Jacqueline Difilippo – Third Place (senior, Smithfield, RI)
Also accepted into the All Things Possible juried show were:
Cyanne Mitchell (East Providence, RI)
Esmeralda Goncalves (senior, Providence, RI)
Angela Xu (junior, North Providence, RI)
Alexa Dicomitis (senior, Warren, RI)
Bay View Academy???s Middle and Upper School art students study under the direction of Jean Petisce-Lynch (Seekonk, MA), Mary Jane Andreozzi (Seekonk, MA) and Margaret Harris (Warwick, RI).
Photo Credit: Lori DesVergnes Abigail Tidwell
Photo Credit: Jean Petisce-Lynch Kaitlin Brannon Slap Not