Oil paintings, charcoal drawings, mixed media, and acrylics lined display panels. Spectators mingled with artists, chatting about subjects and techniques as they munched refreshments. A Soho gallery? Wrong. The satellite cafeteria.
Around 70 spectators turned out for the Dulaney Art Club’s first art show of the year. Roughly 20 student artists participated, some of them enrolled in school art classes, some self-trained. That’s the beauty of it, according to Art Club board member Hannah Hiaasen.
“The purpose is to unite the art community,” she said of the October event. “The students represented here are so diverse,” she added, noting what she called a great turnout.
Hiaasen, a senior enrolled in GT Studio Art and AP Photography, brought several abstract acrylic paintings, including one done on a guitar. Max Mazza, a senior GT Studio Art student, displayed and explained his intricate ink drawings as April Beall, a painter and illustrator who brought along her geometric drawing, chatted with her friends nearby. Near the cafeteria’s windows, self-taught artist Megan Gallagher shared smiles with parents admiring her pencil sketch of John Lennon.
Taylor Boren, club president - like Hiaasen, a senior enrolled in GT Studio Art and AP Photography - included color photos in her display. Among her works was a picture taken from the tower beside the Duomo in Florence, a shot she took while on the trip to Italy with the art and Latin clubs over spring break.
Boren and other organizers worked closely with new Art Club sponsor Linda McConaughy to stage the fall art show. McConaughy, new to Dulaney this year, inherited the club from retired art teacher Elaine Kasmer. With McConaughy’s help, the club plans to hold another show in the spring, Boren said.
Art Club meets Tuesdays after school in room 316 and has about 40 activ members, Boren said, adding that the group has a less formal association with the drama department this year, with only some student volunteers working on set creation for theatrical productions.