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Lovejoy students' work displayed at Dallas Museum of Art
Michael Myers’s “Dormant Man,” reproduced above, is one of six pieces by Lovejoy High School students on display at the Dallas Museum of Art through April 8 as part of the O’Donnell Foundation’s Young Masters Exhibition. The contest features 43 visual art pieces and five essays from AP art students at 13 Dallas-area high schools.
By Conner Hammett, chammett@acnpapers.com
The work of six Lovejoy High School students will be on display at the Dallas Museum of Art through April 8.
The students' work is being honored as part of the Young Masters Exhibition, a competition sponsored by the O'Donnell Foundation.
Of the selected pieces, First, Second and Third Place winners were selected from each category, along with a handful of honorable mentions.
"I thought it was very exciting," she said. "I was honored to have my essay put on display."
James Cole Burnett's mixed-media collage, "House," Taylor Finch's digital photograph, "The Hobbyist," and Mariana Ronzani Torina's digital photograph, "Time Through Light," represented three of the six honorable mentions in the Studio Art category.
Michael Myers' "Dormant Man" painting and senior Ryan Day's "Sed Toror Ire," a found artifact study, were among the other Studio Art pieces picked for display. Day's piece included a sculpture made of found metal and wood, a life drawing of the sculpture and a series of design sketches for mass production of the piece.
"I was really excited," Day said of learning of his place in the exhibition. "It felt nice just to get recognition for my work and have many people in one of the biggest museums in Dallas see my work as an artist this year."
The contest was open to Advanced Placement Fine Arts students from the 13 campuses participating in the foundation's arts grant program. Forty-three visual art pieces and five art history essays were picked from more than 500 submissions, according to the exhibition's website.
Jacyln Moore, AP art teacher, said earning recognition of the judges, including a former curator of The Louvre, gives the students the confidence and experience necessary to be successful in college and their careers.
"It's nice because it validates that we're on the right path and we're teaching them what they need to know, making them very productive members of the arts community and giving them an outlet for what they want to say," she said. "It's hard to put into words how excited we were."
The O'Donnell Foundation's AP arts incentive program is designed to strengthen and increase student participation in AP arts programs and celebrate the accomplishments of those who already participate, Moore said. The program's grants help pay for exams, artist partnerships and guest speakers at participating schools.
All AP Studio Art and Art History students in LHS were asked to submit work for the Young Masters Exhibition, Moore said. No Music Theory submissions were made by Lovejoy students this year.
"Any of those kids whose work was in the museum, they could all be selling their work right now professionally," she said. "The level that they are at is so far beyond what I could have even fathomed than when I was in high school. I think having the AP program and the pre-AP program, we're preparing them from the time they get into high school."
Day said the increased rigor of AP art classes, which include an hour-and-a-half of class time and can require up to two hours of homework, was a bit of a shock at first, but ultimately set him on the path he is on today.
"It helped me realize that art is something I really enjoy doing," he said. "It's been really hard and stressful, but it's probably the best decision I've made through high school."
Now, Day is making plans to study art in college next year. He ultimately wants to be a professional artist with regular gallery and museum showings.
"This [competition] helped me realize that I will be able to do that if I want to," he said.
The exhibition is in the Concourse Gallery of the museum, 1717 North Harwood St. in Dallas.
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