The past few years, during March, WSG has hosted art students from Community High School for our ‘Youth Art Month’ show.  Youth Art Month  in Michigan is, technically speaking, March, so we’re starting the show late in the month with a reception March 28, 7-9pm.

Community High School, self-portrait show

I’m genuinely impressed with the self-portraits.  They’re thoughtful, introspective and clever, without being labored.

Steve Coron is the talented art teacher over at Community, as the school’s fondly called by locals.  He coaxes the best from his students and we’re happy to celebrate their hard work.

pen and watercolor

This piece stopped me in my tracks.  It captures the vulnerability of all of us during our high school eras WITHOUT FLINCHING.  It has a sense of immediacy and urgency – of capturing this moment before it’s gone.

acrylic

This piece was painted with such skill that I had to keep going right up to the glass to see if it was not, in fact, a silkscreen.  Nope.  It was a painting, but the surface had that gorgeous, velvety quality of a silkscreen print.  It’d be a great t-shirt!

So help us celebrate the tail end of Youth Art Month and the hard work of all these talented young artists!  All of us at WSG are pleased to celebrate the students and their work.