WARDSBORO — Two 11th-graders from Leland & Gray Union High School, Anthony Carona and Kelsey Hescock, are co-artists for the month of April at the Wardsboro Public Library.
Both are Wardsboro residents.
Carona started drawing dinosaurs at the age of three. In middle school, influenced by Japanese animation, he adapted his drawings to computers. Now he hand-draws and hand-inks his artwork, then scans and colors it with Adobe Illustrator, which he uses to animate it as well.
Carona designed costumes for the presentation of the play “Drood” and designed the Leland & Gray handbook for the 2015-16 school year. Last summer, he participated in an art program at the Governor's Institute of Vermont at Castleton University and recently displayed his work at the Robert H. Gibson River Garden Art Gallery in Brattleboro. After high school, he would like to attend either Rhode Island School of Design or California Institute of Art in hopes of eventually working for Pixar.
Hescock has been working with clay in her art classes. She quickly found a passion for “throwing” the clay and loved the feel of it. One of her first projects was creating an artist's teapot inspired by Claude Monet's “Water Lilies” paintings.
Hescock received a special award for her teapot at the Arts Council of Windham County Student Art Show. Nature and outdoor activities play a large part in her life in rural Vermont where she lives with her parents and sister.
The two students' work will be on display at the Wardsboro Public Library for the entire month of April. A reception will be held at the library on Wednesday, April 27, at 7 p.m. For more information, contact the library at 802-896-6988.