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A sample of images created mostly by Riverhead High School students as part of a community-wide art project to reflect on the past year. (Credit: Riverhead Central School District) Expressive art therapy, whether through visual arts such as drawing or painting, or through music and writing, can be a powerful tool for expressing feelings and emotions and releasing anxiety.  Jo-Ann Dellaposta, an art teacher at Riverhead High School who has become an expressive art facilitator, said art can serve “like a pathway for a personal remedy for healing.” “It’s almost li...

An auction is underway through April 10 for artwork created by high school students as part of East End Arts’ MLK Portrait Project. (Courtesy of East End Arts) East End Arts has found a new way to promote art through art, and see Martin Luther King Jr. in a new way at the same time. The organization’s MLK Portrait Project, the first of its kind, involved students from seven area high schools, who worked during January, February and March to create five portraits of the late civil rights leader. East End Arts is accepting requests through Friday for private viewing o...

A portrait created by students at Riverhead and Southampton high schools. (Credit: East End Arts) Students from across the East End collaborated for East End Arts’ MLK Portrait Project in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Four different portraits, each containing 16 panels, were created as a unique images of Dr. King. The project was inspired by the work of East End Arts teacher Kenneth Jackson. The project is “a way to celebrate the words of MLK by working together in unity, each creating an individual part, that ultimately becomes whole. Each panel style is diff...