SE artist featured in New York show
by Amanda Leduc
se news editor

   Her world is art, and everything she thinks about is art.
   So when Alicia Templin was one of 30 students whose work was chosen out of approximately 20,000 submissions to be featured in a special exhibition at the College Board’s New York Trustees gallery, she was rewarded for her passion that she has had since she was a child.
   Templin, a SE student, has made her way to New York to be celebrated by the Advanced Placement (AP) Studio Art College Board.
   According to the College Board, the thousands of portfolios submitted were reviewed by college, university and secondary school art instructors with rigorous standards.
   “ The artwork presented indicates the sophisticated level of achievement that students can attain while taking an AP course,” College Board president Gaston Caperton said.
   “ This exhibition of accomplished work by AP Studio Art students features art executed in a variety of media and represents extraordinary clarity of thought and a great diversity of content, style and technique,” he said.
   Templin was home schooled through high school and was allowed to enter her piece through the Rockwall school district.
   Jena Lockley, the AP art teacher in Rockwall, submitted Templin for consideration by the College Board.
   Templin said, “My parents have an art school for teens and kids in Pantego called Art Smart. They have been a big influence on my love for art.”
   Templin’s piece, Dreaming in Color, reflects how art has been a part of her life from the beginning.
   “ I’ve been raised in art, and it’s been basically my whole life. So Dreaming in Color represents how I feel about art and my passion for it,” she said.
   Dreaming in Color is a stylized piece in pastels, which is one of Templin’s favorite mediums.
   Templin was invited to New York City to see the exhibit and attend a reception for the artists.
   “ They honored us and had all our pieces hanging. We got to meet everyone else; that was really fun, meeting everyone from different states,” she said.
   Templin’s father joined her in New York; the other participants were accompanied by their art instructors.
   “ We went to the Metropolitan Museum. We saw another exhibit in a hotel, and it was all of John Singer Sergeant’s paintings. I love his work so much, and there were about 30 pieces of his work, sketches and paintings,” she said.
   Templin hopes to live up to the quality of Ser-geant’s work someday and cites him as an influence on her work.
   “ His paintings are so full of life, and the brush strokes are so beautiful. They look like they were painted with such ease. He is one of my role models,” she said.
   Templin is looking into multiple art schools around the county while she takes her core courses at TCC. She hopes to receive a degree in art and continue to have art as part of her life daily.
   “ My dream job would be just to paint and sell my art in galleries,” she said.