Rumson-Fair Haven High School Seniors Host Final Art Show

RUMSON, NJ - Twelve budding artists from Rumson Fair Haven Regional High School hosted their final gallery showcase of their high school careers last month at The Guild of Creative Art in Shrewsbury where their creations were displayed and sold.

In what has become an annual tradition for the senior art students in the Fine & Performing Arts department, dozens of pieces from the talented group were placed on full display for family, friends and the greater community from April 20 through 27.

The 2021 art show was overseen and curated by veteran Rumson-Fair Haven art
teachers Kristen Lanfrank and Kate Okeson and was kicked off by an opening reception that
welcomed viewers with about 75 pieces of original art from a variety of courses, including Design and Visual Thinking Honors, AP Studio Art, Portfolio Design Honors, and Advanced Ceramics. Many of the esteemed seniors (listed below), who credit their success to the guidance recieved from art teachers Lanfrank, Okeson and ceramics teacher Zachary Wilson, are planning to continue their art studies at the university level next fall.

“We are thankful to Ms. Lanfrank, Ms. Okeson, and Mr. Wilson for putting this together, as well as The Guild of Creative Art for lending us the space,” Said Seth Herman, Supervisor of World Languages, Fine & Performing Arts, Health & Physical Education, & ESL at the high school. “We are proud of our senior artists and glad they had the opportunity to display their culmination of four years of intense study.”

Here are the 12 teen artists who were honored at the show:

● CeCe Arko: Drawing and Painting, The Ohio State University
● Chris DeSantis: Ceramics and 2D Art, Brookdale Community College
● Lauren DeSantis: Ceramics, University of Delaware
● Lydia Enstrom: Drawing and Painting, Pratt Institute
● Isabella French: Jewelry Design and Drawing, The Savannah College of Art and Design (Savannah)
● Zacherie Gross: Painting and Digital, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
● Dylan Herman: Ceramics, West Virginia University
● Jaden Lanfrank: Photography and Film, The Savannah College of Art and Design (Atlanta)
● Tilly Morris: Drawing and Painting, Colgate University
● Sarah Neczesny: Drawing and Painting, Gettysburg College
● Megan Pirecki: Painting, Rutgers University
● Gaven Shanley: Illustration and Animation, Undecided