WFHS Photography and Art NEWS: 
​Current and Upcoming happenings related to my Art and Photography Classes at William Floyd high School!

April 2018 STEAM Symposium 

WFSD STEAM (Science Technology Engineering Arts and Math) Symposium on Thursday evening April 26, 2018, was a huge success! What an exciting night for the students and the community that attended!

Our Photography 3 Class proudly presented their astounding 3D Photos! The photos were printed, mounted by the students and exhibited complete with three-Dimensional viewing glasses for the attendees. If you would like a free pair of red-blue viewing glasses to view the photos in our slide show here, contact Mrs. Luongo or one of our Photography students, who could get you a pair!
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April 2018 Art Exhibit
at the Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge
340 Smith Rd, Shirley, NY 11967 

Come see William Floyd School Districts best Nature Artwork at the Wertheim Nature Refuge! Artwork from every school, K-12 is represented and the exhibit will be up for ​the month of April through May.

Several wonderful Photographs are featured this year from our very own Photo 2 and 3 students: Amanda Berryman, Nicole McDonald, Ja'Nya Parris and Juliet Tanaka. 


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World Pin-hole Camera Day Gallery 2018 to Come...
Mrs Luongo's 1st and 8th period Photography Classes participated in World Pin-hole Camera Day by making an 11-day Pin-hole Camera exposure during the Spring break, one of which of those days was the Pin-hole Camera Day, Sunday April 1st, 2018. We are in the process now of developing the photos, scanning and then uploading the photos to become part of the permanent 2018 gallery at the World Pinhole Camera Day Website!


District Wide Art Show 2018!
Out of the many Photographs that were displayed at the District -Wide Art Show during Youth Art Month in March, Amanda Berryman received the distinct honor of being recognized by the WFSD Board of Education and awarded a Certificate of Appreciation during Marches Board Meeting for her exemplary work. Amanda's Photography will be on display in the Library for the month of March and April. Congratulations Amanda!    

Also chosen for her outstanding work during the Youth Art Month, Nicole McDonald's Photography will be on Display for the Month of March and April in the North Lobby Gallery. Congratulations Nicole!

The Next Photography Show is Scheduled for May 30th and will be up until June 4th or 5th!

WFSD Tilles Center
Art Show April 2017
The following students of mine have their art work and Photographs on display at an art show featuring William Floyd School District students K-12 at the Tilles Center! The Tilles Center is Long Island's premier performing arts center featuring music, dance and theater, located on the LIU Post campus in Brookville, New York.
 
​See my students work in the Gallery Tab!
 

Congratulations to
my students whose work will also be posted in the Gallery tab:
Momina Waheed, WFHS 12th grade, Black and White Film Photography, "Still Life with Mask"
Angelina Ojeda, WFHS 12th grade, Black and White Film Photography, "Woods"​
Megan Stoppelli, WFHS 11th grade, Double Exposure Black and White Film Photography, "Lost in Thought"
Joanna Cardenas, WFHS 11th grade, Double Exposure Black and White Film Photography,  "Vision"
Courtney Weiss, WFHS 12th grade, Double Exposure​, Black and White Film Photography, "Friends"
Jaclyn Nguyen, WFHS 9th grade, Oil Pastel, "Still Life with Fruit"​

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March is National Youth Art's Month!

“Arts Alive Night”; 3/28 7pm
See Gallery tab! Thank you to my students who worked our booth explaining our art interactive project Camera Obscura to the public visitors and students, and demonstrated how people of the past viewed their world through this amazing contraption!

​“NYSATA Portfolio Adjudication”- 4/21 & 4/22
​Gallery slideshow to come!

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Congratulations to all participants in the 2017 District Wide
ART SHOW!

Reception was held
​ 6-8 pm
March 6th, 2017



See slide show below and link here for WFSD SLIDESHOW: www.flickr.com/photos/williamfloydsd/albums/72157677773562184/with/32520353174/

The Poster and invitation Artwork, for this Event, seen at right, was drawn by my Studio In Art students Jaclyn Nguyen and Kaitlyn Wright!
Nice work girls!


STEAM Symposium was a huge success! It was heldThursday March 16, 2017, in the H.S. Gym, 6 pm-8pm
All cameras, whether digital or traditional film, work like an eye. Enter into a life size replica of a 400 BC Camera Obscura, you will see light optics in play, as they are in your own eyes! Actual student constructed Pinhole Cameras and photographs created from these lens-less cameras were displayed.

Unity Week September 26 through 30th, 2016

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JUNE;
​WFHS ANNUAL PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION 2016 June 2nd 2016: OPENED During WFHS Academic Awards Night June 2nd and Ran through June 6th! See the Gallery Tab for my photos of the event or click the link below:

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​Click here for my pics of the WFHS ANNUAL PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION 2016 wfhsphotography.weebly.com/district-wide-art-show.html

APRIL 2016: Contest Excitement! 
Assemblyman Dean Murray's Annual Photography Contest 2016

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Pictured with Assemblyman Dean Murray are WFHS photography teacher Dale Luongo and first-place winner Kasey Hammel.
We had more participants in this photo contest than any previous year! Congratulations to all participants and those whose works were chosen to exhibit in the reception show! For the second year in a row, William Floyd High School students swept the top three spots in New York State Assemblyman Dean Murray’s student photography contest, which requested pictures of places, events and activities that showcased students’ schools and hometowns. Entries were judged by a panel looking at content, photographic competence and other artistic factors. The award-winning student photography was displayed at Brookhaven Town Hall during a congratulatory reception hosted by Assemblyman Murray. William Floyd students also received three honorable mention awards.
The top three students were Kasey Hammel, 11th grade, first place; Tiffany Negron, 10th grade, second place; and Sara Mason, 11th grade, third place. Receiving honorable mentions Michelle Descalzo, 11th grade; Kristen O’Shea, 12th grade; and Shayla Scott, 11th grade. Also chosen for display and present at the show from our school was  Micheal Fuzie, I think he was really supposed to be an "honorable mention" simply because his work was displayed at the show, and he was even invited to attend, but the logistics of the awards somehow get mixed up a bit sometimes at these kinds of things. Even so, I am proud of all my photo students for simply entering their work and putting themselves "out there".  
Pictured below are the students whose work was on display at the Reception, see the Gallery tab for this award winning photography soon!
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William Floyd High School photography students Michael Fuzie, Shayla Scott, Michelle Descalzo, Sara Mason and Kasey Hammel with New York State Assemblyman Dean Murray. (Not pictured Tiffany Negron).

MAY 2016:
​S.T.E.A.M. SYMPOSEUM May 31st 2016: See our Photography Booth featuring Stereoscopic 3D Photography where you can learn the science of why we see in 3 dimensions and how the students are able to replicate the effect, and view the artwork using complementary 3D glasses! I will be adding the photographs of the event and the Photos soon in the "Gallery" tab... just be sure to keep those 3D glasses handy! I have exras available in Room 222 if you would like a free pair, please come see me.
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 2016 APRIL/MAY: NYSATA PORTFOLIO PROJECT  
​All WFHS Students that participated in April 2016 also displayed one artwork in the PUBLIC 3-day Bellport Community Center Art Show. The Reception and Awards ceremony took place on Sunday, May 1st, 2016. Mrs. Luongo attended the reception on May 1st and saw many of our participants there! Special congratulations go out to Mrs. Luongo’s Photography students who received the highest portfolio rating of Distinguished on their predominately photography Portfolio Presentation:
Kasey Hammel: DISTINGUISHED, photo 3 student; elective level
Lance Wilson: DISTINQUISHED, photo 2 student; commencement level
Congratulations to all the students and their art teachers; Erin Almeida, Jillian Berner, Theresa Bianco, Erika Licausi, Dale Luongo and Susan Plunket. 
For my PICS see our Gallery tab or the Link below:
See my pics of the NYSATA Presentation Group and Art Show at the Bellport Community Center 2016 ---- Click Link here: wfhsphotography.weebly.com/nysata-portfolio-adjudication-and-art-show-2016.html
Click Here for an entire Article and more photos from the 9-2015 Unity Week Events: www.wfsd.k12.ny.us/index.php/2015/10/district-celebrates-sixth-annual-unity-week/ 

SEPT 2015:
​WFHS Wins
"BEST PRESENTATION" Award
for the Third Year in a Row!!!
at the
Annual Shanti Fund
​Day of Peace Event 2015

To cap off the William Floyd School District’s sixth annual Unity Week, a celebration of unity, peace and diversity designed to promote tolerance, understanding and acceptance of differences, the William Floyd School District took home the third consecutive “Best Presentation” award at the Shanti Fund Day of Peace held each year in Hauppauge. I had the great honor of Chaperoning the students to the event for the third year. The district received this top award for the myriad of activities put forth throughout the district’s eight schools. 

All of our district-wide Art teachers made Unity related projects with their students. Pictured below in the slide show are the photography classes that I teach working on our Cooperative Photography-Sculpture Project as a contribution to the weeks events. This Montaged sculpture made the rounds this year by being brought to the presentation in Hauppauge, then displayed in our High School lobby as well as a month at the Parish Art Museum!

NYSATA Portfolio Presentations; May 15, 2015

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Earlier this month, 41 William Floyd High School art students in grades nine through 12 received the highest rating of “Distinguished” on their portfolios at the annual New York State Art Teachers Association (NYSATA) Portfolio Project adjudication held at Sachem East High School.
 
To participate, students must be nominated by their teachers and then present their work before a professional artist for assessment and feedback. The Portfolio Project is an authentic assessment tool that provides students with an opportunity to present their portfolios and demonstrate their understanding and success in the visual arts.
 The students’ projects will be on display at the Anthony Giordano Art Gallery at Dowling College in Oakdale until May 16. 
Congratulations to all the students and their art teachers!