 Collaborative
photo exhibit between Niskayuna High School and
Sunnyview Rehabilitation Hospital debuts May 25
The photo
exhibit, My World and Welcome to It,
debuts on Thursday, May 25 from 4:30-6:30 p.m.
at the Viewpoint Gallery, 1270 Belmont Avenue in
Schenectady.
The exhibit is the second collaborative project
between students from Niskayuna High School and
the Viewpoint Gallery's Studio Art
Project. Steve Honicki, NHS photography/video
instructor, and Ruth Hall Daly, Director of
Sunnyview Hospital’s Viewpoint Gallery,
conceived of and developed this project hoping
to bring 30 students from different generations
and different “worlds” together. By using
curiosity, creativity, and interest in the art
of photography as common denominators, students
discovered that regardless of age or disability
the enthusiasm to learn, to communicate to
relate and create provocative imagery is
universal.
All of the students were given the same
assignment: To take photographs that would
convey unique visions each saw in their everyday
lives. The high school students used their own
35mm SLR cameras and the SAP students used two
single-use B&W disposable cameras. With pictures
taken and after two classes of photography
lectures by Mr. Honicki, all students got
together in the e-Mac lab at NHS. With each SAP
student in front of a computer and at least two
NHS student assistants as their co-pilots and
mentors, Mr. Honicki took everyone on a journey
through the vast and sometimes confusing world
of Adobe Photoshop. What appears in this
exhibition is the outcome of their journey and
collaboration.
This exhibition was made possible by Sunnyview
Rehabilitation Hospital, the Viewpoint Gallery,
Niskayuna High School Art Department, and in
part through the Community Art$ Grant, a program
funded through the State and Local Partnership
Program of the New York State Council on the
Arts and the Arts Center for the Capital Region.
Thanks to Media Well Done and The Photo Lab,
Inc., Schenectady and especially Mary Ann
Undrill, Sunnyview volunteer, for helping bring
this project to fruition.
The exhibit will run from May 25 to July 20,
2006.
Call 518-386-3520 for more information.
(May 2006)
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