AP Art: Shanti peace poster contest winner

Congratulations to AP art's Ilysa Sirota on winning the 2016 Shanti peace poster contest for her colorful design featured above.  She will awarded $147 (the age Ghandi would be if he were alive) by the Shanti organization and Suffolk County executive Steve Bellone at a ceremony later today and her image will be featured in their annual calendar.  This is Ilysa's second winning poster design, she also took the top prize in last year's competition.  For over 12 years, Volunteers of Shanti Fund have been actively promoting peace through education through programs like their annual peace poster competition.

Drawing: End of the semester

Today is the final day of drawing class and I must say it has truely been a pleasure!  We will finish our collaborative Walt Whitman portrait in pencil, complete our last mural, and wrap up all the grading.  Before we come to a close I wanted to share the photo above of our two Shanti Peace Calender winners from class- artwork from Illysa and Kyle were both chosen for this year's claendar so congradulations!  I hope all of you enjoyed class, learned, and choose to continue on the creative path in the future-best of luck!