High school art students toured Mohawk Valley Community College's studios, met with staff and enjoyed a lunch Friday, November 30^th.

The Art Department would like to thank alumnus and visiting artist
Owen Williams (Class of 2017) for spending the day with high school drawing, painting, photography and graphic design students.  Owen so graciously shared his artwork, stories and knowledge with students.  He gave students a sense of what college expectations are and how to start thinking of yourself as a working artist and your artwork as a business.  He shared the illustrations from his book and card games with the students showing them the process behind them.  He even spent individual time critiquing student artwork.  So from Mrs. Spine and
Mrs. Grower, a big thank you for a great day!

From the Rome Sentinel:

The Classes of 2016 and 2017 donated funds to upgrade the gardens in the high school's two center courtyards.  Mrs. Cardinal, along with class advisors, shopped for and purchased flowers, benches and decorations.

The Daylilies, Geraniums, Liluims, Purple Salvia and other hardy perennials can now be enjoyed in one courtyard.  With the extremely hard ground it was quite difficult to plant, and a special thank you goes to Mr. Cardinal of the Maintenance Department for the task of planting them on his time off!  The soil in the second courtyard proved to be even less plant friendly so that location was decorated with lovely gazing balls, metal pinwheel flowers potted plants. 

Thank you to all involved for their donations and hard work!