Campus Galleries Filled with Student Art

5/22/2026

Aaron Case

Campus vibrates with creative energy all school year. When spring comes the community finally gets to see what the school’s most talented artists have been working on, as the Warner Gallery and MASC Gallery open their doors for student art exhibits.

Honors Art Exhibit

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In the annual Honors Art Exhibit, VIth formers in Honors Drawing & Painting, Honors Photography, and Honors Ceramics proudly displayed their best work. But the day before they opened the show to the public, artists from Honors Photography and Honors Drawing & Painting spent a class block in the gallery critiquing each other’s creations. The critiques were positive, pointing out the excellent creative choices made—from color choice and brush strokes to model poses and framing. The artists then responded, explaining the inspiration for their art.

The critique session prepared the artists to discuss their work on opening night, when the rest of the community joined them. With music setting the vibe and snacks in hand, students and faculty took in the artwork, awed by the paintings, photos, and ceramics that would be at home in any professional gallery. The selection included several detailed paintings of scenes from around campus and from the artists' off-campus lives, and many photos featured Millbrook students as models.

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Liminality

Here at Millbrook, we work tirelessly to ensure every student is known and needed, and on Thursday the community embraced a tangible result of that mission. In honor of Asian and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, Nga Ho ’26 and Linna Du ’26 curated a special exhibition of student and alumni art titled Liminality.

On display in the Hamilton Math & Science Center studio space, the exhibit opened with a reception after Formal Dinner. Artists Lucy Kim ’27, Charley Li ’27, Sowol Park ’29, Evan Sun ’25, Eason Wang ’26, and Jason Zhang ’29 joined Nga to showcase pieces that express the liminality students from various cultures experience here on campus and at home.

“Across these works likes a question that many who move between cultures carry with them: Who are you when your identity changes depending on where you stand?” write Nga and Linna. “Growing up in an international school and later entering high school in the U.S. means a life shaped by constant shifts in language, behavior, and belonging. At home, one may feel more American in mindset, habits, or expression. Meanwhile, that same person may become more conscious of their Asian identity at school—through family traditions, cultural expectations, and the way others perceive them. Existing between these spaces can be both enriching and uncertain.”

The striking work on display included provocative photography, emotive charcoal drawings and oil paintings, and traditional ink drawings and calligraphy. Between the brushstrokes and camera angles is a powerful story of young adults embracing their identities at Millbrook School.

Holbrook Made

Holbrook Made featured work from students across all levels of art classes in the Holbrook Arts Center. From the detailed ceramics displayed on pedestals around the gallery to the walls filled with photography, drawings, paintings, and collages, the work spoke to the bright future of Millbrook art in stentorian tones.

Mastery of form and technique was already evident in many of the pieces, which ranged from whimsical ceramic representations of food to somber oil paintings by more than one student experimenting with a Blue Period.

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