Each year as part of Alumni Weekend here at Haverford we host the Arts Festival, an exhibition of the creative work of our many alumni and current students. Haverford can boast of many artists, musicians, architects, sculptors, painters, printmakers, designers, writers, performers, of all sorts, and even glassblowers and tattoo artists. Whether they work as professionals in their fields or for their own enjoyment, we love to see what they have been creating and bring them together as a creative community and help our current students understand the range of possibilities of a Haverford graduate.

Check out the additions of Sam Shaw who is using a robot and AI to create paintings. Former Math teacher Paul Humber's collage. Tom Powers ('88) has some new paintings on his page. Troy Gibbs-Brown has new paintings. Filmmaker Rich Hoffman is at work on a video.  Peter Nance added some new paintings to his page. Mike Mitchell continues to produce stunning photographs.

This year's Featured Artist is Stephen Santore (74)

Stephen will be visiting the school and presenting to an Upper School assembly as well as visiting with art and design classes in the Upper and Middle Schools. Following Haverford School, Stephen was in his first year at Haverford College when he decided to pursue art and design professionally. He then studied at The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts for a semester before switching to the Rhode Island School of Design, where he received a BFA in illustration, with significant coursework in product design. Stephen worked for over 20 years executing illustration, storyboarding, and product design and development for organizations such as BBDO, Chiat/Day, NWAyer, Disney, Waterford Crystal, Lenox, Wilton Armetale, and Teleflora. During that time, he spent many fruitful years designing crystal for St. George Crystal. Mr. Santore now balances his work as a fine artist with the teaching and application of psychological type. His artwork has been shown at the California Center of the Arts, The Kate Ashton Gallery, Gallery 21, The Solana Beach City Gallery, and group shows such as "HUE + ME".  He is represented in private collections throughout the United States and the United Kingdom, and has completed, and is currently working on, several commissioned pieces.

Check out his website at: https://www.stephensantore.com/

If you are one of the many other creatives not represented and would like to be, please drop Chris Fox an email at cfox@haverford.org and we'll bring you into the fold.

Banner image is a detail of  Samuel F. B. Morse's (1791-1872) Gallery of the Louvre (1831-33)