duCret Students Featured at Spring Art Show

Each year in Spring, the duCret student body present their artwork to the public, enabling families and local residents a close-up view of their year-long duCret creative activities. As a result, the students have an opportunity to market their original wares and the public gets the chance to tour the school grounds and meet the artists. Additionally, each year the Swain Galleries located on Watchung Ave in Plainfield, NJ, will feature the show's winning artwork for a month's debut in the summer. This enables first, second and third year students to learn how to present their materials and their vision to the public and to gain live art gallery experience. This year the Opening Reception at Swain's is on July 14th from 5pm - 7pm and the artwork will be on display until August 24th. Ranging from mixed media, ceramics, digital, oil, acrylic, pastel and water color paintings to airbrush, jewelry and photography - the artwork is a vast array of mediums, making for an ecclectic and visually stimulating exhibit.

This year's show winners are: 1st Place; Tomas Hurtado, Bahiyyah Sing, Steven Decter, Rae Cauley, Laura Smith, Dwayne Watson, Brandon Drake, Jane Rocca Hecht, Celina Berry, Justin Ruzol, and Asia Jackson. 2nd Place: Ellery Jane Ring, Elizabeth Perez Diner, Megan Cocho, Rae Cauley, Dwayne Watson, Lauren Darabant, Samantha Ortiz, Liam Kaiser-Sheridan, and Ernst Labady. 3rd Place: Regina Bunger, Robert Schimmel, Alex Sisko, Laura Smith, Brandon D. Drake, Elizabeth Jones, Roberto Vidal, Liam Kaiser-Sheridan, and Steven Decter. Honorable Mention: Rae Cauley, Samantha Abbate, Laura Smith, Kristina Walker, Gilberto Saucedo, and Roberto Vidal.

Additionally, specialty awards were given to the following students:The Furman J. Fink Award; Brandon Drake. The Walter Swain Award; Tomas Hurtado. The Alfred Schultz Award; Zoltan Sisko. The Ann & Dudley duCret Award; Brandon Drake. The Alumni Award; Rae Cauley. Vincent diDomenico Award; Megan Schembre. The Peace and Social Justice Award; Kevin Meneses. The Edward Pardee Memorial Award; 1st - Bahiyyah Sing, 2nd - Celina Berry and 3rd - Zoltan Cisko. Art lovers and families are invited to the 2012 Swain Art Gallery Opening Reception on July 14, 5pm - 7pm. Swain's is located at 703 Watchung Ave, Plainfield NJ. For more information call 756-1707 or visit www.ducret.edu.