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14 Area Schools to Participate in the Phillips’ Mill Community Association’s Third Youth Art Exhibition

The Phillips’ Mill Community Association is pleased to announce that it will be hosting its third Youth Art Exhibition in January.  Each year the show has become an even bigger success with last year’s show having a higher attendance, more schools participating and almost $900 in awards given to local school students.

The idea for the show began two years ago when Phillips’ Mill decided to build on the success of its’ well respected adult Art Exhibition now in its’ 86^th year. As the adult show solicits participation from artist living within a 25 mile radius of the Mill, the Youth Art Show solicits participation from the art departments of high schools located within a 25 mile radius of the Mill.

This year there will be 14 schools both public and private from Pennsylvania and New Jersey participating. They are: Central Bucks East (Buckingham, PA), Central Bucks West (Doylestown, PA), Holy Ghost Prep(Bensalem, PA), Council Rock High School South (Newtown, PA), Council Rock High School North (Newtown, PA), The George School ( Newtown, PA), New Hope-Solebury High School (New Hope, PA),The Solebury School ( New Hope, PA), Hunterdon Central High School (Flemington, NJ), Ewing High School ( Ewing, NJ), Stuart Country Day School (Princeton, NJ), The Pennington School (Pennington, NJ), The Hun School (Princeton, NJ) and Hillsborough High School (Hillsborough, NJ)

The Art Department at each school will choose 9 student works for the exhibition.  The exhibited art will include two and three dimensional works comprising painting, watercolor, collage, pastel, graphite, digital art, photography and sculpture.  Cash prizes will be determined by this year’s juror Guy Ciarcia.  Mr. Ciarcia is a classically trained artist who was educated at the Pratt Institute, NYU and the Accademia di Belle Art in Florence, Italy.  His work spans over 50 years and includes painting, murals, photography, film, digital drawings and sculpture.  Ciarcia has had numerous exhibits throughout New Jersey and Pennsylvania including the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian, Washington, DC.

The Youth Art Exhibition will be open to the public on three successive weekends in January and February 2016.  Sun. Jan 24^th, Sat. Jan, 30^th , Sun. Jan 31^st, Sat. Feb. 6^th and Sun. Feb 7^th.

An opening reception for artists, teachers and their families will be held on January 23^rd.

The exhibition will be open from 1:00PM to 5:00PM and is held at the historic Phillips’ Mill, 2619 River Road, 2 miles north of New Hope, PA.  For additional information call 215-862-0582 or visit www.phillipsmill.org.