Huntco Polytech Graphic Design Students Show at Cabrini Gallery

Flemington, N.J. -About one-quarter of the winning posters in Cabrini University’s Art + Effect High School Poster Contest came from Hunterdon County Polytech Career and Technical School. Seven of the school’s graphic design students placed among the artists selected to display their powerful designs at a Nov. 18 exhibition in Cabrini’s Gorevin Gallery.

In its second year, Cabrini’s Art + Effect High School Poster Contest invited high school students to create a conceptual poster based upon an immigration theme. Students could explore a variety of media from traditional to computer-generated to create their posters. Then, a jury of professional graphic designers judged the submissions – 74 total – to narrow them down to 18 winners based on originality, craftsmanship and thematic message.

Polytech Graphic Design Instructor Cynthia Dailey took great pride in seeing her students’ work selected for exhibition. “As a designer, I know that my students have talent and passion, but it is very gratifying to have their work critiqued and judged by the talented folks at Cabrini,” she said.

Dailey presented this contest to her students to allow them to compete with peers from other high schools and also to share their voices on the heavily discussed and debated topic of immigration in America.

“As graphic designers, we are communicators, and our art gives us our voices,” Dailey said.

In last year’s inaugural contest, which focused on the theme of diversity, Polytech’s Ariel Vergara, now a freshman at Kutztown University, placed among the winning artists.

Congratulations to all seven 2018 winners from Hunterdon County Polytech: Nicole Bayne, Sophia Brotons, Garrett Delbeni, Angeles Garcia, Hailey Gettel, Erin Kearney and Alyssa Morris.

Photo Caption: Cabrini University faculty members Jeanne Komp (back left) and Don Dempsey (back right) congratulate the 2018 Art + Effect poster winners. Four of the seven winners from Polytech attended the Nov.18 exhibition, and they include Sophia Brotons and Angeles Garcia in the front, left, and Alyssa Morris and Nicole Bayne in the back, left.

Hunterdon County Polytech Career and Technical School is the largest component of Hunterdon County Vocational School District (HCVSD). Polytech is the district’s shared-time high school that prepares students for a seamless transition to college and career paths. HCVSD also operates an Adult and Continuing Education school and three science-based high school academies: the Biomedical Sciences Academy, the Computer Science and Applied Engineering Academy and the Environmental Sustainability and Engineering Academy. Learn more at www.hcvsd.org.

All pupils will be given equal opportunity for enrollment in programs operated by the Hunterdon County Vocational School District regardless of race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender, religion, disability, or socioeconomic status (34 C.F.R. Part 100, Appendix B, Section IV-A). No qualified handicapped person shall, on the basis of handicap, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or otherwise be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity which receives federal financial assistance, et seq (34 C.F.R. Part 104.4(a)(b).

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