Catholic school students’ artistic talents showcased at Lakeside festival

Forty elementary and high schools exhibited original pieces of student art at the 2012 Catholic Schools Week Art/Music Festival at Lakeside Shopping Center, Jan. 24-28. The annual festival, which also features vocal and dance performances, is sponsored by the archdiocesan Office of Catholic Schools. A small sampling of pieces by the exhibit’s high school-age artists is showcased here. “The Triumph of Agnes,” a pastel work by Holy Cross senior Nicholas Aperwhite, is pictured at right.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At right: Still life of pink flowers by Katie Bowes, junior, St.

Mary’s Dominican;

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

at left: “Indiana Jones” by Emily Marino, junior, Archbishop Chapelle;

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and at right: Van Gogh-inspired New Orleans skyline by Hillary Engelhardt, senior, Mount Carmel Academy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Micah Mirsberger, an Archbishop Rummel senior, executed an acrylic triptych of Beatle John Lennon, left.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

St. Scholastica Academy sophomore Mary Grace Moran shows how ordinary objects, right, frequently make the most compelling artistic subjects.