Dec 12, 2012 9:22 AM
A dark-haired girl, lying eyes-closed beneath the surface of bathtub water as fish swim nearby, was the subject of a large print affixed to a glass wall of the library at the Stony Brook Southampton college campus in Shinnecock Hills one recent school day.
Along the wall and spilling across the floor were dozens of other prints featuring people, places and abstract images. They were all the work of Pierson High School students participating in a new pilot program expected to lead to the expansion of the Young American Writers Project, or YAWP, from creative writing to the visual arts.
Pierson is the first school to participate in the program, but organizers hope other schools will follow suit. Pierson’s involvement comes as a result, in part, of a connection between art teacher... more
Along the wall and spilling across the floor were dozens of other prints featuring people, places and abstract images. They were all the work of Pierson High School students participating in a new pilot program expected to lead to the expansion of the Young American Writers Project, or YAWP, from creative writing to the visual arts.
Pierson is the first school to participate in the program, but organizers hope other schools will follow suit. Pierson’s involvement comes as a result, in part, of a connection between art teacher... more
