“Current Burdens,” a mixed media by Alina Peng, a senior at South Brunswick High School, is among 67 works by high school students and their teachers to be featured in “Passing the Palette” at the MCCC Gallery November 16 to December 8, 2015. Details and directions are available at mccc.edu/gallery.
The Mercer County Community College (MCCC) Gallery will highlight artwork by high school students and their teachers in its exhibition “Passing the Palette: Arts Educators and Their Students” set to open with a reception on Wednesday, November 18, 2015 from 5 to 7 p.m. The exhibit will be on view through December 8, 2015 at the college’s West Windsor campus located at 1200 Old Trenton Road.
More than 50 artists, including 13 instructors, from eight high schools will display 67 pieces in a variety of media. The participating high schools include Allentown, Hopewell Valley, Lawrence, Robbinsville, South Brunswick, Trenton Central, Trenton West and West Windsor-Plainsboro South.
Artists include: Allentown High School art teacher Laura Panosian Sommerville and students Skylar Hornyak, Alek Rhoad, Amanda So, Courtney Stover, and Victoria Walters; Hopewell Valley Central High School art teacher Carolyn McGrath and students Lara Ingraham, Kaela Moore and Peri Pavicic; Lawrence High School art teachers Cheryl Eng and Khalilah Sabree and Lawrence Township Public Schools art teacher Sean Carney and students Andrew Baicker, James Boushell, Samantha Gardocki, Barbara Gruszka, Emily Herrera, Bryan Lemus, and Benjamin Reitz; Robbinsville High School art teacher Freida Villepontoux and students Morgan Newman, Jessica Nicol, Madison Tomasko, and Dan White; South Brunswick High School art teachers Laurie Budhu, Dianne Belnay, and Elizabeth Snediker and students Jacqueline Aquino, Teresa Marie Capaccio, Sarah Chang, Rosie Kojiem, Josemari Lawas, Wendy Liu, and Alina Peng; Trenton Central High School art teacher Andy Seabert and students Amaliya Agambila and Marisabel Rivera Arroyo; Trenton Central High School West art teachers Nicole Backlund and Thomas Montanari and students Leslie Castro, Frankie Jade, Joan Mosquera, and Naila Muhammad; and West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South art teacher Jane Proulx and students Briānna Hodges, Lehna Ding, Hannah Chun, Chinne Ezeigwe and Seriah Barnes.
Gallery hours for this show are Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., and Wednesdays, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. For updates, directions and other information, visit mccc.edu/gallery or facebook.com/MCCCgallery.

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