Several Darien Winners in Silvermine Arts School Exhibition

Several Darien art students won awards at the recent Silvermine School of Art Exhibition, open to anyone who completed at least a full term of art classes at the school in New Canaan.

Awards were given in adult and youth categories and across various types of media, from painting and drawing to ceramics, digital imaging, and metalwork.

These four Darien students won awards:

• In the adult category for painting, Juliette Jansen of Darien (pictured) won an award for “Downtime in 2014.”
• In the “Youth” category (ages 11-17) for ceramics, Justin Mossa of Darien received a first prize for “Burgundy River.”
• In the “Junior” category for ages 5 to 10, for collage, Amelia Bowman of Darien for “Parrot Feather.”
• Also in the “Junior” category, for sculpture, Ilse Fedoronko of Darien was given an honorable mention.

The Best in Show Award went to Elaine Leegstra of Greenwich for her oil painting entitled “Here’s Looking at You.”

The judge of this year’s exhibition, the 25th the school has put on, was Beth Livensperger, who lives and works in Queens, NY, who has exhibited nationally and internationally, includingin New York, Philadelphia, Providence, RI, Santa Monica, CA and Seoul.

Livensperger is a former Aldrich Museum Radius Fellow and has done residencies at the Weir Farm, Vermont Studio Center, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. In 2010-2011 she was an artist-in-residence at the Abrons Art Center in Manhattan.

She currently teaches painting and drawing at SUNY Purchase. Livensperger holds a bachelor’s of fine arts degree from the Cooper Union and a master of fine arts degree from the Yale University School of Art.

Picture (contributed by Silvermine School of Art), Juliette Jansen (on the left) is pictured with her painting, “Downtime in 2014.” (The work depicts two daughters of Jansen, one of whom is pictured standing with the artist in front of the painting.)