The 36th annual HarborOne Fine Arts Show was held at Brockton High School from May 3-5. Students and staff were thrilled to have the in-person exhibit return after it was canceled for two years due to the pandemic.

The list of 2022 honorees is included at the bottom of the page.

Makai Benson

Makai devoted a lot of time during at-home learning to perfecting his craft.

“A lot was happening in my head, so I just needed something to get my mind off of it,” explained the 12^th grader.

Benson’s favorite piece featured in the HarborOne Fine Arts Show is a painting that includes multiple faces layered on each other.

“I was working at home and there’s like six different paintings under it,” said Benson. “Whenever I wasn’t satisfied with something, I just made marks with like a palette knife or something like that and different brush strokes. I experimented using chalk, marker, pencil, anything that I could.”

Andrew Boen

For Andrew, the pieces he created in AP Art allowed him to explore and build awareness about a topic that he cares about.

“My investigation this year was based around mental illnesses because I find them interesting,” said Boen. “I feel like people with them often get bad treatment or misunderstood and so I really wanted to dive into the emotions, which I tried to portray through facial expressions, or sometimes even like colors.”

Boen’s pieces each seek to portray a different mental health diagnosis.

Jaelyn Bernard-Cranmore

Jaelyn’s self-portrait provided the opportunity to paint a person’s likeness for the first time.

“We were able to pick any picture of ourselves, and we were painting it. I chose this one, it was actually the first day of school. It was something that I didn’t really think I’d look back on. I picked it because of how it looks, the background is blue, so it’s a cooler tone, and it affected the rest of the way it looked.”

Her piece took two months to paint as she carefully blended paint to achieve the right colors and focused in on perfecting the shadows within her work.

Annmarie Sherrick

For Annmarie Sherrick, who teaches Drawing and Painting, Art Explorations and Ceramics at BHS, the return of the HarborOne Fine Arts Show after two years of at-home learning is special.

“When you see all their hard work on display, matted up, there’s something magical about that, seeing the culmination of all their hard work. And it’s magical for them, too. Because a piece that they’ve had their nose in and they’ve been working so hard on once they see it matted and hanging on the wall you can see the pride in them,” Sherrick shared.

As an artist, Sherrick knows firsthand how art can be a way to express emotion in a positive and meaningful way. Walking through the exhibit on May 3, she was moved by how students used their chosen mediums to express how they feel about growing up during a worldwide pandemic.

“Looking at some of the work, you can see how much emotion throughout the last two years is coming out in their pieces as well,” she explained. “There are some heavy things being processed in their work and I think it’s so wonderful for them to be able to have that outlet and then to see that outlet is valued as well.”

2022 HONOREES

PAINTING		NAME
Honorable Mention		Olivia Spadea
Honorable Mention		Flavia Fernandes
3rd Place		Ava Vasquez Parham
2nd Place		Makai Benson
1st Place		Katarina Lutz
DRAWING		NAME
Honorable Mention		Destiny Cater
Honorable Mention		Jaliyah Barros
3rd Place		Elisa Arzeno
2nd Place		Tuzi Zheng
1st Place		Malik Goncalves
ILLUSTRATION		NAME
Honorable Mention		Dora Dorval
Honorable Mention		Savannah Fontes
3rd Place		Olivia Pinney
2nd Place		James Misir
1st Place		Andrew Boen
PRINTMAKING		NAME
2nd Place		Mikayla Homicil
1st Place		Elisa Arzeno
CERAMICS		NAME
Honorable Mention		Viviana Depina
Honorable Mention		Taina Badillo
3rd Place		Gabrielle Pina
2nd Place		Kasandra Munoz
1st Place		Schamenslly Jean Pierre
SCULPTURE		NAME
3rd Place		Danielle Parker
2nd Place		Jaydin Rodrigues
1st Place		Martina Grein
MIXED MEDIA		NAME
2nd Place		Nya Jackson
1st Place		Willow Smith
PHOTOGRAPHY		NAME
Honorable Mention		Kaylijah Louis
Honorable Mention		Latifa Adan
3rd Place		Wacilla Moniz
2nd Place		Jacob Simmons
1st Place		Cleentania Pierre
DIGITAL ART		NAME
Honorable Mention		Vanessa Norestyl
Honorable Mention		Emily Cardoso
3rd Place		Gabrielle Jantilli
2nd Place		Tayha Lesperance
1st Place		Malik Goncalves
ANNIMATION		NAME
2nd Place		Saveja Feliz
1st Place		Miguel Colan
VIDEO PRODUCTION		NAME
2nd Place		Zoe Lopez Danielle Torres Katrina Goyette
1st Place		Valenciya Cepeda Samayah Rochdi Luis Lopes Maizel Samba Ahmed Wiggins
Best in Show
		Alyce Watt