Student Showcase: Sophia J.
Tell us a little bit about your journey as an artist. I’ve grown at One River as an artist. Getting out of my comfort zone and doing things that I wouldn’t be doing on my own. Which has been your favorite project to work on at One River and why?…
Read MoreStudent Showcase: Ben A.
Tell us a little bit about your journey as an artist. At first, I started drawing cars because I wanted to be a mechanical design expert. Then, I started getting into comic books and animated series. I started drawing characters from these series and my own. I hope to go…
Read MoreEducator Spotlight: Casey Stewart
Tell us a little bit about you and your background. Graduating from the University of Rhode Island in 2024 with a Bachelor’s degree in Art as well as one in Criminology, I was uncertain what to do with my dual degrees in completely unrelated fields. Freshman year, I went into…
Read MoreStudent Showcase: Jacqueline M.
Tell us a little bit about your journey as an artist. I’ve been drawing for as long as I can remember, with some of my earliest pieces being from preschool. I would say I don’t know exactly where the motivation came from, but that’s because, to me art is a…
Read MoreEducator Showcase: Shakira Renee
Tell us a little bit about you and your background. I have my associates in Visual Art from SCCC & BFA from SUNY Oneonta. My first job out of college was teaching private art classes to special needs adults which is when I discovered my love for teaching. I love…
Read MoreEducator Showcase: Irene Domingo
Tell us a little bit about you and your background. Well My name is Irene, I joke with others that the best way to remember it is to think of the hurricane. I have been making art since I could hold a crayon. I started off with mainly cartooning and…
Read MoreProject Snapshot: Monochromatic Seascapes
Art Shuffle®: Kids Monochromatic Seascapes Overview: Students create an original monochromatic seascape painting using acrylic paints, as inspired by the work of artist Matthew Fisher. Essential Skills: Learn how to successfully blend colors toward a gradient. Discover how to create value using acrylic paints. Create a painting of multiple tints/shades…
Read MoreStudent Showcase: Angelina M.
Tell us a little bit about your journey as an artist. From a young age, I’ve been drawn to creativity across many media and styles. In school, I was often sketching on the side, using drawing as a way to turn my thoughts into something visual. My first formal art…
Read MoreProject Snapshot: Subterranean Dwellings
Art Focus®: Drawing: Teens Subterranean Dwellings Overview: Colored pencils present many opportunities for creative expression, story telling, and personalized details. Using colored pencils, students create subterranean burrows with connecting tunnels to tell a story of an imaginative underground scene. Vocabulary: colored pencils, layering, subterranean, and tonal paper Featured artist: Sarah…
Read MoreTeam Showcase: John Sahin
Tell us a little bit about you and your background. I am an art instructor and concept artist for animation. Tell us a bit about your role at One River I am instructor and a product manager. I am part of the educational board and help to build curriculum…
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