Monica Banks working with students during the Student Exhibition

The annual Student Exhibition, a 60-year tradition at the Parrish, features the work of more than 1,000 young artists from schools on Eastern Long Island. Working with their art teachers and through art clubs, the students demonstrate creativity, enthusiasm, and technical skill in diverse media, ranging from painting to sculpture, drawing and photography.

The exhibition includes work created by students in Artist-in-Residence workshops with artists who participated in Artists Choose Artists, including artists Suzanne Anker, Anne Bae, Monica Banks, Ben Butler, and Saskia Friedrich.

In addition to the nearly 300 works by students under the direction of their art teachers in 38 public, private, and home schools, the exhibition features group and individual works by 350 students who participated in hands-on workshops to create original art work based on the five artists' unique approaches to art making. In their creative practice, each of these artists explores intersections between the visual arts and nature in ways that deepened students' understanding of the world around them. Several of the artists investigate non-art disciplines including biology, geology, and mathematics.