Northport Public School K-12 students, staff, families, and community members packed into the Northport Art Association (NAA) on Thursday for the opening of the district’s “Origin & Echo” show. The intergenerational show, the first of its kind for Northport, featured both adult artwork inspired and paired with student work. Kids from Northport’s Dandelion Discovery Center also participated, as well as residents from Northport Highlands.
Students and adults that were paired together at random in the school-wide art show ranged in age, with participants as young as 10-months-old to as old as 99-years-old. Adults, the “echo” of the students’ “origin” art, used various mediums to respond, creating everything from sculptures and electronic pieces, to needle felting and mosaics.
“Your work created a space where conversations between artists, students, and community members could come to life… To our artists, thank you for your courage, creativity, and for putting yourselves out there. You are the original artists who sparked the entire process to even happen in the first place. You started this beautiful collaboration,” said Jen Evans, Northport art teacher and show organizer. “Origin and Echo is about connection — between generations, between hands and materials, between original ideas and the unexpected places they travel… Notice how one piece inspires another, how stories stretch across ages, and how creativity lives in conversation. We mirror the people beside us, and they mirror us.”
