Harwood Art Show celebrates student work, June 10

June 9, 2025 | By Lisa Scagliotti

Poster by Harwood freshman Lily Bourbonnais

Students and teachers in the art department at Harwood Union High School are prepping for their June 10 spring Art Show, celebrating student work.

The shows are done twice a year at the end of each semester to highlight creative work by all art students for that period. 

“We have been having these art shows for over 25 years now,” said art teacher Wendy Peterson Rand. “It is only up for that evening, as it happens in our rooms and hallways and on our tables and counters, and has to be taken down the very next morning in order to have class.”

Exhibits are prepared and set up along with refreshments for visitors to sample as they peruse paintings, drawings, photography, sculpture, pottery and other creative work students produced this semester. 

Along with the art shows are the department’s Plaid Awards, where 15 pieces from the show are chosen to be photographed and printed in large format for display in the school corridor near the gym and auditorium for a year. Art works are voted on by art teachers, school administrators and both the student and faculty Plaid designees. 

The Harwood Plaid tradition taps one student and one faculty member each year to be leaders for school spirit and entrusts them to wear the school’s tartan plaid cape at assemblies, sports matches and special events. This year’s Plaid designees are teacher Jonah Ibson and senior Callan Mittler. 

The art show will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, June 10. The public is invited to attend, using the school’s south entrance (head upstairs) from the parking lot.