3 Maine West Photography Students Honored at Barrington Photography Exhibit #207Now #arteducation @mainewestfab @mainewestart

 

Three Maine West photography students earned distinguished honors at Barrington's Photography Competition. This show was the brainchild of a Barrington High School student, Sophia Wischmeyer, who wanted to organize an event to showcase excellence in high school photography. 

In its inaugural year, the Barrington Photography Exhibit had a theme of "Cinematic & Narrative Shots," and they hosted an awards night on Thursday, March 20th at Barrington High School in the Clair E. Smith Gallery.

The three Maine West students who earned awards are:

Addy DeRusha earned Judge's Choice
Callie Weinert earned 3rd Place Overall
Nathan Velasco earned Judge's Choice

12 schools from around the area participated in this exhibit. Congratulations to Addy, Callie and Nathan and their photography teacher, Ms. Melissa Lloyd!

Spotlight Art Exhibit 2025 #207Now #arteducation #creativity @mainewestart @lahartanddesign2 @mainewestfab

 

Tonight, students and teachers in the visual arts presented the Spotlight Art Exhibit - a compelling and impressive visual feast of works from all students in all artistic media areas and levels. The work was absolutely stunning!

HERE is a folder full of pictures of the pieces in the exhibit for you to enjoy!

Congratulations to all of the art students and teachers on a successful exhibit!

Maine West Visual Artist Earns the Silver Key Award in the 2025 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards! #207Now #excellence #scholastics @mainewestart @lahartanddesign2 @mainewestfab

 

District 207 is excited to share the results of the 2025 Chicago Region Scholastic Art Awards! District 207 student artists have earned an impressive 26 awards, including 11 Gold Key Awards, 8 Silver Key Awards, and 7 Honorable Mentions. All Gold Key recipients will have their work considered for national recognition.

Among the awards, Maine West's Luiza Szerszenowicz won a Silver Key Award in Drawing and Illustration!

The Scholastics Chicago Region awards ceremony and regional exhibition will be on display at the Columbia College Student Center, 754 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605, on April 9, 2025.

CLICK HERE to see a portfolio of District 207’s award-winning artwork!

Monster Project Art Show! #207Now #digitalart #collab @mainewestfab

 

Advanced Digital Art students joined forces with students in the Educational Life Skills (ELS) program to make collaborative artwork. The project afforded Advanced Digital Art students the opportunity to work with a client - taking direction and inspiration from the ELS students' sketches and leading client conversations to create and revise designs until the client was happy with the product. 

Thank you to Maine West's digital art teacher, Ms. Natalya Kljajic, on her vision for this wonderful collaboration!

Please enjoy some of the student artwork that resulted from this project below:

2022-2023: A Retrospective in the Visual Arts #207Now #arteducation #CreativityFuelsTheFuture #FindYouBeYou @mainewestart @lahartanddesign2 @lloyd_mwphoto

 

The Maine West visual art teachers - Mr. Cammarata, Ms. Kljajic, Ms. Lahart, and Ms. Lloyd - have collaborated to produce a final, end of the year 22-23 retrospective celebrating the work and events created and experienced through the visual art program this year.

Please enjoy perusing this year's Maine West Virtual Art Gallery HERE.

Maine West Artists Participate in Des Plaines Art Guild's 70th Anniversary Show at the Frisbie Center #207Now #visualart #artshow @mainewestart @lloyd_mwphoto @mainewestfab

Maine West visual artists are part of the Des Plaines Art Guild's 70th Anniversary Art Exhibit on display at the Frisbie Senior Center. Students' mixed media artwork can be enjoyed by the public at the Frisbie Senior Center on Friday, June 2nd. 

Congratulations to the visual artists with work in this show!

Thank you to Maine West visual art teacher Ms. Melissa Lloyd and Maine West alumna and Des Plaines Art Guild member Rhonda Popko for collaborating to make this opportunity available to our students!

Maine West Visual Artists Featured in the CSL Art Show #207Now #artshow @mainewestart @lahartanddesign2 @lloyd_mwphoto @cammarta120 @mainewestfab

 

On April 20th, the Art Center of Highland Park hosted a public reception to celebrate the artists featured in this year's CSL Art Show. The work in this year's exhibit is breathtaking! Many Maine West students have work represented. Be inspired, and go check out the exhibit! You have two days left: Friday, April 21st and Saturday, April 22nd!

More pictures of Maine West students' work featured in this exhibit can be found HERE. 

A HUGE thanks to the Maine West visual arts team: Mr. Rick Cammarata, Ms. Felicia Lahart, Ms. Melissa Lloyd and Ms. Natalya Kljajic for inspiring these young artists and for doing all of the work necessary for them to be represented in this impressive show!