Throughout December and early January Locust Valley High School’s annual IB Art Talks series kicked off, allowing student artists to teach their classmates about their artistic inspirations and processes.
Each Wednesday from December to March, International Baccalaureate Art students in Melanie Mooney’s class decorate a display case in the hallways with their favorite works and spend the day explaining their works and the two-year IB course curriculum to interested peers. The talks give the students a chance to prepare for a gallery they present near the end of the school year and work on their public speaking skills.
Since Dec. 11, Abraham Diaz Gomez, Anhelina Grygoriak and Kai Hoy have each spent a day explaining their themes and favorite projects, which ranged from dioramas of cartoon supervillains to paintings relating to their heritage and gothic dresses.
“The students have freedom to set up their display case as their vision, which shows their strengths, weaknesses and vulnerabilities,” Mooney said. “I am proud of their maturity, bravery, talents and their ability to explain their thoughts, ideas, brainstorms and visual expressions and share them with the community.”