Brockport is venue for Student Art Exhibitions

Brockport's Welcome Center just became a little more welcoming. So did Main Street and the Village Hall. A three-component exhibition put on by the New York State Summer School of the Arts, is now being displayed on the Main Street banner poles, at the Welcome Center, and at the village offices.

The New York State Summer School of the Arts, with its eight component summer residential schools, is sponsored and supported by the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and is administered by the State Education Department. NYSSSA provides intensive, pre-professional training programs for New York state's most gifted and motivated young artists. Recognized as one of the finest programs of its kind in the nation, over 14,000 high school age students have become part of the experience.

This July, the School of Visual Arts is celebrating its 30th year anniversary as well as its seventh year in Brockport. This school is specifically designed to emphasize art experiences that cannot normally be undertaken during a 45-minute school period and allows gifted high school students from all over New York state to experience life as a working artist. Students work in the studio at SUNY Brockport as well as in the community with drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, mixed media, figure, and inter-disciplinary arts under the direction of noted, exhibiting, artists-educators.

According to Cindy DeFelice, group director, the artwork "reflects the students' talent and dedication as well as the pleasure they take in living in Brockport during the month of July."

The community is welcome to attend the students' final and comprehensive exhibition of work on Friday, July 28 at 8 p.m. at the Tower Fine Arts Building at SUNY Brockport.

July 23, 2006