Friday, November 17, 2006
Roundtable Report
55 Students in the morning session and 25 students in the afternoon session learned from professionals about how visual arts and elements are the primary focus in a multitude of career choices. This years panelists included the following: Veronica Jackson, Principal and Senior Exhibit Designer for the Jackson Design Group; Vida Russell, a print and graphic designer; Stevens Jay Carter, a Washington DC based artist and 2006 recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant Award and Victoria Reis, Executive Director of the non-profit emerging visual arts space Transformer.
After the seminar was completed the students had the opportunity to have their portfolio reviewed and talk personally with our expert panelists. Denise Phalan, Yorktown art teacher and All Arlington Salon exhibiting artist said that when her students returned to school they were so inspired that they choose to paint while eating lunch!
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Yorktown, Woodlawn, Wakefield and Washington-Lee High School art students visited the Ellipse Arts Center on Wednesday, November 15th for the Visual Arts Career Roundtable, a panel discussion on careers in the visual art.
55 Students in the morning session and 25 students in the afternoon session learned from professionals about how visual arts and elements are the primary focus in a multitude of career choices. This years panelists included the following: Veronica Jackson, Principal and Senior Exhibit Designer for the Jackson Design Group; Vida Russell, a print and graphic designer; Stevens Jay Carter, a Washington DC based artist and 2006 recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant Award and Victoria Reis, Executive Director of the non-profit emerging visual arts space Transformer.
After the seminar was completed the students had the opportunity to have their portfolio reviewed and talk personally with our expert panelists. Denise Phalan, Yorktown art teacher and All Arlington Salon exhibiting artist said that when her students returned to school they were so inspired that they choose to paint while eating lunch!
