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2025 Aquidneck Island
High School Art Show

in Memory of Rosemary Day

February 13 to 15, 2025

About This Show
and Rosemary Day
About the Anthony
Quinn Foundation
The Award Winners!

"The Muse", Clay Cady, Rogers HS
The 2025 Annual Aquidneck Island High School Art Show, hosted by the DeBlois Gallery, honors its originator, the late Rosemary Day, a devoted Middletown High School art teacher and member of DeBlois Gallery. Rosemary firmly believed in her students as practicing artists who should have the opportunity to exhibit their artwork in public. In this spirit, DeBlois Gallery, bringing together the hard work of high school art teachers, art students, and private donors, continues the tradition of the annual show that Rosemary Day started over 20 years ago.

Participating schools are The Met School, with teacher Cara Willi; Middletown High School, with teachers Lucas Lundgren and Christin Woolbright; Portsmouth High School, with teachers Krista Hook, Mel Olsen (High School Show Coordinator), and Jordan Silveria; and Rogers High School, with teachers Hope Lowe and Barbara Wunderler-Selby.

This year we welcome back the Anthony Quinn Foundation in celebrating the creativity of our young art students with the artwork of Anthony Quinn, renowned Oscar-winning actor and extraordinary artist. It was because of his artistic talent that he received a scholarship in high school that would help to launch his phenomenal career.

A non-profit organization founded by Katherine Quinn in 2001 to perpetuate the memory of Anthony Quinn and his achievements, the Anthony Quinn Foundation provides scholarships to High School students who aspire to pursuing a career in the arts. Serving as an advocate for young people with a passion for the arts, the goal of the Anthony Quinn Foundation is to assist youths through the granting of awards and scholarships for higher cultural education and the advancement of a career in the arts.




The Rosemary Day Art Award Winners


Max Hollister
East Bay Met School


Self Portrait
Medium: Drawing; Teacher: Cara Willi

Adriyanna Lockhart
Rogers High School


Spring Shopping
Medium:Mixed Media; Teacher: Barbara Wunderler-Selby
Jack Marston
Portsmouth High School


Getting Back on Track
Medium: Photography; Teacher: Mel Olsen

Anna Stusse
Middletown High School


Rooster
Medium: Ceramics; Teacher: Christin Woolbright