Young artists from New Hyde Park Memorial High School offered community members a sneak peak of their featured work last weekend, as part of the New Hyde Park Museum’s Emerging Artists exhibit.
The museum showcased the students’ art at New Hyde Park’s village hall for a preview of the main exhibit scheduled for this Friday at the Hillside Public Library.
The exhibit’s 22 pieces, all by New Hyde Park students, varied significantly in subject, style and medium, including photographs, paintings and charcoal and ink drawings.
“They’re gorgeous,” said Mildred Tassone, the vice president of the New Hyde Park museum. “So many of us moved here (to New Hyde Park) because of the school system, and so it’s nice to see what beautiful work can come out of these students.”
The exhibit at the library Friday will also feature books and memorabilia from the museum with the history of the village, Tassone said, saying it is the museum’s first collaboration with the library.
“This is our first partnership and visit with them, which we’d like to do more of,” she said. “We expect a lot of people Friday night because the library is advertising.”
To find the artwork, Tassone said, the museum passed out fliers encouraging students to submit their work for the exhibit.
“Whoever wanted to submit them did, and it became part of the exhibit,” she said. “Today’s events are tomorrow’s history.”
Tassone said she hopes eventually to put the pieces online along with accompanying video or audio from the artists.
“What we want to do is have them be part of the museum’s history,” she said. “There seems to be so much negative news it’s really a good thing to have such positive connection.”
Among the pieces were a postmodern portrait of a young women overlaid on a factory background, a stark black-and-white photo of the Long Island Railroad tracks and a decorative design of a peacock’s tail feathers.
The Emerging Artists exhibit will take place Friday at the Hillside Public Library from 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
