• More than 30 Sanford students in grades seven through twelve are winners in this year’s regional Scholastic Art Awards competition.
• The Delaware Foundation for the Visual Arts (DFVA) selected drawings created by two Sanford students for publishing in the 2010 DFVA Calendar.
• A Lower School student was one of four regional finalists in 2009 Doodle 4 Google contest. She visited the Google headquarters in NYC to participate in the awards ceremony.
  
• The artwork of 10 Upper School students were accepted last spring to participate in the juried student art show at The Big Picture. A junior Sanford Honors student won first place.
• Artwork created by 4 US students was selected for an exhibition at the Biggs museum.
  
• 10 students exhibited at a juried show in Hockessin, resulting in 3 awards including 1st place.
• Recent community outreach activities include: DE Hospice Tree display, donation of a painted chair to the Ministry of Caring auction, and the creation of coloring books and gathering of art supplies to send to the children of Haiti.
• The National Art Education Association (NAEA) has selected Sanford faculty member Nina Silverman as the Delaware Middle School Art Educator of the Year for 2009. Meg Fierro and Betty O'Regan are both, past recipients of the Delaware Art Educators of the Year awards.
  

Betty O’Regan is beginning her 31^st year as Chair of the Art Department at Sanford School and has been in the teaching field for over 35 years (not counting the 4 summers she spent as an arts and crafts counselor at Camp Arrowhead!) Betty earned a BSEd from the University of DE and has attended Penland School of Crafts, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and University of the Arts. In 2003, Betty was recognized as Delaware’s Art Educator of Year and served as Vice President of Art Educators of DE. She loves to travel and has received grants from Sanford to study Aboriginal art in Australia and to explore Tuscany with her Upper School colleagues.

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Nina Silverman

Recipient of the 2010 Middle School Art Educator of the Year Delaware award, Nina Silverman has devoted the past 19 years to the “art of teaching.” A mixed media artist, Nina continually examines ideas to combine traditional, as well as non-traditional art materials in alternative ways. Alum of Temple University’s Tyler School of Art, University of the Arts and Moore College of Art & Design, Ms. Silverman thinks that the best education she has received has been right here at Sanford School.

 

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Meg Fierro

During her 21 year career in art education, Meg Fierro has been recognized as an Outstanding Art Educator by Philadelphia University, was included in Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, and she was chosen as the 2001 Delaware Art Educator of the Year. She has been the recipient of numerous teaching grants, has attended Project Zero Classroom at Harvard Graduate School of Education, and earned a Master of Science in Instructional Leadership. Her passion for art extends into the community with the DE Foundation of Visual Arts, where she has been a board member since 1995, and as their Student Program Coordinator, she created and brought to reality, Kaleidoscope: Art Seminar for High School Students, a successful statewide program. Meg is also a past president of Art Educators of DE. Meg brings energy and enthusiasm to all of her involvements. 

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Alex Ball

Alex Ball is beginning her tenth year teaching. She received her B.F.A. in Sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design and her M.F.A. in Painting from the University of the Arts.  She implemented the very successful Honors and AP program at Sanford. Alex is certified to teach English as a foreign language and enjoys yoga, reading, and the outdoors.