Salesianum Art Teacher To Be Featured at Hockessin Art Festival

Saturday, February 25: 10 AM - 5:PM and Sunday, February 26: 12PM - 4PM

Salesianum Art Teacher Brian Magargal '83 is honored to be the Featured Artist at the 2006 Hockessin Art Festival. This distinction has been bestowed upon many other prosperous accomplished artists from the tri-state area, and Brian is looking forward to displaying many new images in both oil and watercolor. A recent inspirational trip to Boothbay Harbor in Maine, funded by the Salesianum Teacher Enrichment Program, provided new material for the upcoming show. In addition to the Boothbay material, many local scenes can be viewed in Brian's new works, including Yorklyn, Hockessin and the historic Wilmington area. The 2006 Hockessin Art Festival, which benefits the Wilmington and Western Railroad, will be held at the Hockessin Fire Hall, for more info on the web: The Wilmington and Western Railroad and Magargal Studios website.

Brian Magargal '83 Biography
How fortunate I feel to be given the opportunity to paint and teach young men what little I find I know about art.

Teaching art at Salesianum School continues to be one of the most rewarding aspects of my career. The men I "teach" are brutally honest and push my work to be more accurate and true. Paint what you preach is something that has guided me through my recent days.

Whether it is discussing perspective, value, or color down to the abstracts of concept or technique, young men ask me to explain why, just I ask them. Accountability for your art and belief is deep-seated in this artistsÕ vision.

My artistic career started at Salesianum under the direction of Walter Stan, AWS. He helped with the basics and sparked an interest that I did not know existed. Soon I was to find myself enrolled at the University of Delaware Visual Communications program studying to be a designer bound for the big city, I also was painting. Designing, advertising and marketing was my career for several years, traveling between New York and Philadelphia. These years helped hone my skills in composition and layout, something I have carried over into my current line of work. Trough teaching art, creating design, and painting original works, I learn. All three of these mediums are interrelated, each one feeding the other. This maintains a focus for me and inspires me to be very productive. Balancing the need to be creative with the desire to be understood guides subject matter and technique down new roads yet traveled.

As to the future, what can it hold? More design, more creativity, more painting, more learning, I can only but hope. For this creative person, there is nothing more exciting than trying something new and learning about the old.