A Feast for the Eyes

The annual Gallery Night event, which is school-wide celebration of the visual arts, was a huge success. The event featured artwork from students in junior kindergarten through 12th grade, the 6th grade Comic-Con Alley, and food trucks. Guests were also invited to explore all three divisions and stop at various stations to participate in a variety of hands-on workshops. Many thanks to the school’s visual arts faculty for their hard work to organize and coordinate the event: Sarah Markwald, Jessica Michels, Priscilla Woods, and Andrea Worthey, as well as the many parent volunteers who assisted.

As an added component to Gallery Night, USM’s Parents’ Association partnered with school parent and artist Christopher Barksdale (pictured below) on a unique school fundraiser. Barksdale worked with every class in Preschool and Lower School to create a group painting inspired by a famous work of art. Parents were then able to bid on the class piece, or purchase a reproduction of it through Square1. “The idea was for the project to be a community builder,” said Barksdale. “It’s something that the students worked on collectively, and the parents could then enjoy the finished project.”