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Park Avenue students go on art tour Amityville's Park Ave. Memorial Elementary School art teacher Dorothy MacGregor was more than pleasantly surprised when she walked her 16 students to the Circle Gallery, located at 186 Broadway , Amityville, on March 5. She and her "Art Crew" hadn't expected five artists from the Amityville Artists Circle (AAC) waiting to provide them with lessons in art media and techniques. These third, fourth and fifth-graders were selected to join "Art Crew" through a student-initiated process which consists of a three-step evaluation for the after-school activity. AAC members Victoria Carlisi, Evelyn Rothenburger, Roger Schroeder, Barbara Spizzirri and Ron Thomson took the opportunity to talk about their specialties that range from wood sculpture to watercolor. Schroeder gave an orientation to the gallery, pointing out that such a venue provides the perfect opportunity to meet living artists. A woodcarver, he showed off his works on display and added that art takes the form of many media. He introduced Carlisi, who described the steps needed to paint and preserve ceramic tiles. Thanks to her, art work can find a place in the kitchen, bath or any other room in a home. Spizzirri talked about her Chinese brush techniques to create an impressionistic picture. It was the perfect segue for Rothenburger to show off her portraits, also in watercolor. Thomson, a highly versatile artist, described his acrylic work, wood sculptures, papiermache statues, and pen-and-ink drawings. A commercial artist and art teacher, Thomson launched into a series of drawing exercises for the students. Using simple peanut-shaped forms, he demonstrated how to create human figures and even simple animals in a variety of poses. From there, he taught how to draw faces and how to create a human likeness using only shading. Thomson finished his lessons by sitting with the young artists and helping them sketch. Accompanying MacGregor and her students was Park Ave. Assistant Principal Michael Febbraro. He, too, participated in the drawing session and later said that he hoped for future collaborations between the AAC and Amityville's students. The AAC offers many art and cultural programs that are open to the community. For more information on the Circle Gallery and the artists, contact Irene Greenhalgh at 631-598- 2182 or visit
www.amityvilleartistscircle.org.
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