Three Norwalk Winners in Silvermine Arts School Exhibition

Three Norwalk 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 just over the border 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 Norwalk students won awards:

• In the adult category, for collage, Kathleen Booth won a first prize for her work, “Festivities.”
• John Serena won a Jerry’s Artarama Award for his oil painting, “Jazztree.”
• Sandy Mills won one of four Jean S. Holland Awards for her oil-on-aluminum work, “Day is Done.”

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.