Paint the Town!
The Viktor Schreckengost Mangbetu Award Art Student Group Exhibition
Exhibition: January 5th – March 9th, 2024
Reception: Saturday, March 2nd; 4:30pm-5:30pm
Attleboro Arts Museum
Community Gallery
86 Park Street, Attleboro, MA
Free and open to all
Attleboro Arts Museum
Fill the Page! Drawing Realism and Beyond students will showcase cityscape drawings in Paint the Town! The Viktor Schreckengost Mangbetu Award Art Student Group Exhibition held in the Museum’s Community Gallery from January 5 – March 9 , 2024.
Students range in age from 9–13 years and created these urban drawings over the Museum’s fall session of art classes under the knowledge and guidance of AAM Art Educator, Lisa Granata.
Since 2009, the Attleboro Arts Museum has presented the Viktor Schreckengost Mangbetu Award , an annual recognition granted to an outstanding AAM art student.
Viktor’s legacy continues by saluting the arts achievement, commitment, and visual creativity within our Museum School. Student recipients have ranged in age since the launch, the youngest only 8 years old at the time of their exhibition.
In 2019, the award program was expanded to honor teams of exhibiting students. Each group exhibit spotlights one of Viktor’s areas of interest or an art media that he enjoyed. his year’s invitational art student exhibition is inspired by Viktor’s city scapes created mostly in the 1960s and 1970s.
Vivid colors and small geometric blocks characterize these paintings. These cityscapes resemble blueprints or technical drawings, and some viewers might compare them to digital images.
The style can be interpreted as Viktor’s reference to the role of technology in urban life and development. Viktor focuses on color to evoke different moodsin each piece. For example, Cleveland depicts a warm, quiet moment with the sun rising over buildings and bridges before the chaos of an industrious day begins.
“This prompt was a unique art challenge for our budding artists.
By using expressive mark making with thick and thin lines and courageous color choices, students created recognizable and/or abstracted versions of their chosen city horizon, ultimately boosting their development in observational and imaginative drawing,”
Abby Rovaldi AAM Programs Coordinator.
Exhibiting Students:
Lucy Canina
Carson Connolly
Olivia Cummins
Samantha Dubofsky
Mia Gifford
Sophia Greene
Reese Hueston
Riss Jutras
Kiley Kingsley
Kaylee Majeran
Rovannio Tawadros
Morgan Taylor
As a result of a generous gift from Mrs. Gene Schreckengost, The Attleboro Arts Museum was the fortunate recipient of Viktor Schreckengost’s 1933 original Mangbetu Child; Bronze Casting #2
Museum visitors and friends will treasure this exceptional gift for years to come. It serves as a strong symbol of Vik’s talent and the great impact of the Viktor Schreckengost Legacy. Exhibition (March 21 st – May 16, 2008) at the Attleboro Arts Museum.
Mangbetu Child lead to the creation of the Viktor Schreckengost Mangbetu Award