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Creativity on display: Faculty Art Show
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The annual winter Faculty Art Show celebrates the creative work of Portsmouth Abbey School faculty across a wide range of mediums, from painting and digital imagery to ceramics and fine woodworking. This year’s exhibition features works by Mark Nadeau, Alassandra Micheletti, and Ryan Walker, offering guests a chance to observe the depth of artistry happening within our own community. Director of Fine Arts Mark Nadeau included a striking series of digitally created images entitled "Moods/Modes," "Subtractive," and "Additive" (2025), each presented as a triptych and printed using a pigmented inkjet on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Baryta, alongside pieces such as "Neon Glow" (2025) and an earlier oil painting, "Untitled (#201604_2)" (2016). Visual Arts Teacher Ryan Walker contributes a thoughtful collection of oil paintings, including "Forty Steps Beach" (2025), "Sketch at the Cross" (2025), "Sketch of Mom with Roscoe" (2025), and "William and George (Sketch)" (2025), as well as "Dad’s College Mitt" (2015) and "Rainbow Sweater" (2023). His work also includes "Artist in His Studio," a master copy after John Singer Sargent, highlighting both technical skill and reverence for the tradition of classical painting. The show also includes two new untitled acrylic works by Alassandra Micheletti ’05, Art History teacher, depicting endearing and nostalgic scenes of childhood. In addition to the wall-hung works, the display cabinet features an extensive selection of Mark Nadeau’s functional and sculptural objects, including wheel-thrown white stoneware mugs, bowls, pots, and tea bowls, as well as finely crafted lidded endgrain and facegrain boxes made from woods such as cocobolo, curly myrtle, black walnut, gabon ebony and quilted Norway maple. Standout pieces include "Determination," a lidded facegrain box in black cherry with stainless steel, and "Quaich," made of mahogany with 23K gold leaf and pyrography. |
