MTSD Visual Arts

Art Extravaganza 2020!

Welcome to the Montgomery Township School District's Virtual Art Extravaganza! During our time at home, our students have been engaged in creating beautiful works of art. The Visual Arts program in the Montgomery Township Schools prides itself in giving our students a safe space for self-expression, developing their creativity, and sharing their impressions of the world through artistic expression. We are happy to share some of our middle and high school work with you here. Unfortunately, due to logistics, we could not include elementary work in this gallery, but we look forward to celebrating their work when we are back in school together. Much appreciation is extended to the students from our National Art Honor Society, who assembled this Virtual Exhibit.

Much of the work in this gallery was completed during our period of distance learning, and as you will see, our students' artistic learning did not stop on March 12th when our buildings closed. During this time of having to stay apart, we hope this art can bring us together in our common understanding of the human condition and our belief in empathy. Students explored a wide range of topics. Their work deals with serious world, social, and mental-health issues; explores nature and our environment; expresses emotions from joy to sadness and from fear to courage; and discovers shared beauty and life.

We are so impressed with their ideas and talents and are excited to share them with you here. We are proud to present this virtual art gallery to you and look forward to the 2021 Arts Extravaganza being in person again!

Please leave messages of congratulations through this form and they will be added the message wall found at the bottom of this page.

Although this gallery contains the work of middle and high school students, we would like to thank all of our incredible art faculty district-wide for keeping their students engaged in producing beautiful artwork during these difficult times:

Michele Diatlo, OHES

Donna Stellar Evans, OHES

Jennifer O'Connor, VES

Suzette Martinho, LMS

Cassie Stedina, LMS

Whitney Ehnert, UMS

Dara Zimmer, UMS

Tina Dailey, MHS

Deirdre McGrail, MHS

Heather Palecek, MHS

We would like to give a huge shout out to the MHS National Art Honor Society students who spent many hours developing this website. We'd also like to thank their teacher and advisor, Ms. McGrail for putting in so much time to make this a possibility. And of course, we could not do this without our very supportive district administration, school administration, and board of education. Thank you all!!

National Art Honor Society Student Volunteers

Angeli Lu

Grace Yan

Neena O'Mara

Piper Epstein

Anika Paidipalli

Ashiya Patel

Anika Chakraborti

Jennifer Liu

May Zheng

Jordan Spector

Amelia St. Mauro

Mehreen Tahir

Kriti Mukherjee

Connor Li

Nicole Gomberg

Amanda Youngberg