Neiley Harris joined the accelerated art groups on May, 3,4,22,23 for an artist in residency program in acrylic painting.  Neiley is an artist from Monmouth,Maine.  She is known for her Georgia O‚Keeffe style paintings of flowers, fruits and vegetables.  To see her paintings and read more about her, visit neileyharris.com
        Students prepared for this residency by creating a series of contour line drawings of cabbage, fruits and other vegetables all using a square format and concentrating on composition.  They then created value studies of the same fruits and veggies.  The last part of the in class project with Ms. Perelka concentrated on using color and developing the final compositions.  This unit was done over a series of classes and comprised the bulk of the first six weeks of the last trimester.
        As you can see, the works are beautiful.  The students are very proud of them and are very anxious to take  them home. They are currently on display in the gallery space across from the library at S.A.M.S.