Dodge STEAM Grant High School Students Attend Gala ARTstart Reception at William Paterson University!

On Saturday February 6, high school students from the three Dodge STEAM grant supported high schools:  GOPA/School of Government and Public Administration, SOIT/School of Information Technology, and CAHTS/School of Culinary Arts, Hospitality, and Tourism attended the Gala ARTstart Reception held at the Power Art Building at WP/William Paterson University.  High School art students from these three Paterson schools together with their art Instructors joined students and instructors from all over Northern New Jersey to participate in this annual event organized by Professor Uhlein of the WP Art Department. 

In attendance from the three high schools were students' families, friends, their art instructors Darryl Jones (GOPA), Vivian Reyes (CAHTS) and Marilyn Simon (SOIT), STEAM Grant Coordinator, Dina Scacchetti, and Art PIR Triada Samaras.  Senior art students who had work in the exhibition could bring their portfolios for review prior to the start of the reception to be considered for a potential art talent scholarship to WP. 

 Above:  Dodge Grant Coordinator Dina Scacchetti holds WP certificates for participating GOPA. SOIT, and CAHTS art students.  More than 100 people attended the opening, which was clearly a family affair.

 
Above:  CAHTS Art Instructor Vivian Reyes stands with her students' and her own art work at ARTstart.

Above:  SOIT Art Instructor Marilyn Simon stands with her students' and her own art work at ARTstart.

At left:  GOPA Art Instructor Darryl Jones stands with his students' and his own art work at ARTstart.

Above:  WP Student Art Teacher Ashley Zampino stands with her student Alejandro Garcia (SOIT) and his art work at ARTstart.

  

Above:  GOPA Art Student Ashley Zumba stands with her father in front of her Analogous Color Painting created with marker on paper.

 Above:  CAHTS Art Student Tiffany Rivera stands in front of her "Tiger" drawing created with India ink on paper and her four black and white photographs.

 

Above:  GOPA Art Student Art Eucarys Vizcaino stands in front of her Radial Symmetry Drawing created with marker on paper.