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Student art by Elissa Stoop, this year’s featured student artist.

It’s been three years since the annual Unionville High School Art Gala has been held in person. But it came back this weekend and artist liaison Diane Micklin is glad it’s back. Because of the reaction to COVID, this is the first in-person gala since 2019.

“It’s great having fresh new faces, traditional art but with a fresh new look. I’m happy we’re back in person,” Micklin said.

Among the new faces at the gala this past weekend were Francine Dunigan, Susan Moore, and Andrea Barrie.

According to featured artist Temre Stanchfield, color is sacred to her work.

Dunigan describes her work as a collage with mono-printing. She prints colors on individual pieces of paper, sometimes found paper or even tissue paper, and then layers them. She was a commercial design major in college but said she started the new technique after following other artists on Instagram.

Moore, a retired nurse, now makes pottery and said she got involved in the UHS Art Gala because a friend has a daughter at UHS who told her about the event. Barrie, who makes jewelry, also got involved on the advice of a friend.

But there were returning artists, too, such as Carol Mangano and Temre Stanchfield.

Mangano, who has also shown at the former Barbara Moore Fine Art Gallery in Chadds Ford, returned to the UHS event for her fourth time. She said her work is impressionistic “but that changes all the time with a touch of realism when I feel like it.”

Of the gala itself, she said she loves doing the event because she’s a former art teacher, adding that seeing the gathering of artists displaying their works is like a prom night.

Stanchfield was also back for the fourth time, but this year she was the featured artist. She, too, loves the gala.

“This is such a charming event. I love the community,” she said.

Her work, Stanchfield said, is how she puts her take on landscape, using color in abstract form.

“Color is sacred to me. I find it compelling. It represents unbridled possibilities and that’s what opens my work. I like to think of it as a process of discovery.”

In addition to that of professional artists, student art was on display. Of their work, Student Art Show Committee member Sarah Snyder-Dinsel said in a press release, “I am constantly amazed at the high caliber of artwork created by UHS students. It is such a pleasure to view their pieces, and our selection of one senior artist is never an easy one.”

Proceeds from the show benefit the UHS PTO.

About Rich Schwartzman

Rich Schwartzman has been reporting on events in the greater Chadds Ford area since September 2001 when he became the founding editor of The Chadds Ford Post. In April 2009 he became managing editor of ChaddsFordLive. He is also an award-winning photographer.

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