Congratulations to Middle School Art Teacher Romy Burkus on her newly hung exhibit, Confronting Color: New Paintings, Prints and Paper, in the Art Center Gallery, sponsored by Art Across the Academy. This is a body of work that Ms. Burkus produced during her Professional Enrichment Leave last year and since then, through January 2025. She states that during that time, she was able to devote her waking hours to make art without time restrictions, thus allowing her creativity and imagination no obstacles bound by time. Her exhibit features a stunning collection of paintings, prints, and cut paper which is an exploration of color that will uplift your soul during these gray February days. Students are welcome to stop by the gallery through March 12 to check out her impeccable color compositions.

Ms. Burkus' personal statement:

Time for Intuitive and Intentional Art

"As a full-time teaching artist, I am usually only able to produce my art during my summer break, which gives me only two months to experiment/process/create. This means that in order to be “successful” at creating art for displaying, I need to set tight limits on my medium, technique, and subject matter. Unfortunately, that is not typical of how creativity and the artist’s brain work; creativity comes from a wide range of sources, and happenstance plays a large part of that. As artists, we see the world differently and often from different directions at the same time. We have one idea that lead to another and then get inspired by other ideas as are experimenting. The creative process is abstract, non-definable, and does not happen on a schedule."