Art Education K-12

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Shannon Gagne, Supervisor
860-658-0451, ext. 523
Marie DeKemper, Art Department Secretary

2024 District Art Show Dates

2023 District Art Shows - Highlights

2022-2023 NAHS

Welcome to Our Student Art Gallery

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Artsonia provides an online view of student art portfolios. Below are links to each school's works of art.

Simsbury High School, Grades 9-12

Henry James Memorial School, Grades 7-8

Central School, Grades K-6

Latimer Lane School, Grades K-6

Squadron Line School, Grades K-6

Tariffville School, Grades K-6

Tootin' Hills School, Grades K-6

SHS Art Alumni Testimonials

Adele Rossignol (SHS Class of 2019, Wheaton College)

Excerpted from a letter written by Adele Rossignol to Shannon Gagne (January 20, 2020):

As a Psychology and Hispanic Studies double major, I have a significant example of how non-art majors are using their high school art education in college, and wanted to share my work with you in the hopes that it helps Simsbury understand the extent of the impact that its art education has on its students…

…[M]y college has been having an issue with swastika incidents this past semester…On three separate occasions, a swastika has been drawn in a public place on campus. In order to confront this issue from a student perspective, my group decided to create an installation utilizing positive, personally significant symbols with which people from our campus community do identify. We wanted to show how symbolism can relate to identity and can unify a community with respect of the diversity within it, despite the desire of an individual(s) to make another feel excluded.

Our final product was a mannequin, upon which symbols anonymously submitted from the campus community were applied. This was to signify the unified identity of our college (Wheaton College MA). We created a website with a promo video about it in order to convince other schools and institutions to follow our process and do the same, in order that they may have an art installation on their grounds using all of the symbols with which their community identifies...

I would happily attest to the fact that my art education continues to change my life, and it is currently manifesting itself by unifying my campus community in light of series of hate crimes. Though I have always sung the praises of my wonderful high school art teachers, I also wanted to remind you what an impact my connection with you and your team of educators has had on me.

Conveying Identity Through Shared Symbols project website

SHS Art Alumni In the News

Colleges and Careers

Visual Arts Resources

Artist Websites

Catherine M. Elliot
Christine Kornacki
Skylar Hughes (link unavailable)
Julie Pereira

Education Websites

Museum Websites

Gallery/ Instruction

Visiting Artist Residency Program

Our Schools

2023 SCC Teen Photo Contest

2023-2024 HJMS Peace Poster Winners

Scholastic Art Awards 2023-2024

Murals

Walk virtually through the halls of SHS to view murals both past and present

Congressional Art Award Recipient

Nana-Poku Boakye, was selected as the winner of the 2023 Congressional art competition with his photo, “Silenced”.

As the winner of the competition, Nana attended a national reception at the Capitol in Washington DC on June 20 hosted by the Congressional Art Institute. Additionally, his piece was hung in the Cannon Tunnel on the campus of the Capitol, where it will remain for one year.