Clublicity: National Art Honor Society

by Leah Landron, NAHS Secretary

This year is rapidly coming to a close, and it seems the perfect time to reminisce on some of the wonderful achievements of Newfield’s National Art Honor Society (NAHS). This year as the school began to return to regular, pre-COVID event schedules, NAHS was able to provide facepainting at Trick-or-Treat Street. This sparked a trend of offering facepainting at other events such as the fall drama’s Santa’s Workshop and Bicycle Path’s Sweetheart Dance. We also worked on the mural for Mr. Von Bargen’s classroom and helped paint a tree mural at New Lane.

NAHS also had some exciting field trips this year. We went to the Parrish Museum in the fall to see an exhibition by Mel Kendrick, an artist best known for his work in sculpture with materials like wood, metal, and paper On that trip, we also had the opportunity to go ice skating at the South Hampton Ice Rink. I actually learned to skate for the first time! This spring we went to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and got to see many famous works of art, from Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night to Salvador Dalí’s The Persistence of Memory.

To close the year some members volunteered at the art show on April 28th. We also recently had our officer elections for next year and are excited to pass the torch and have a very successful year to come!