Herricks senior wins scholarship

Richard Tedesco

Call Herricks High School senior Priscilla Kim a late bloomer.

Kim, who recently won the 2013 Nassau County Art Supervisors Association Senior Art Scholarship Award, said art wasn’t a primary interest in her younger years.

“I became more interested in high school,” she said.

Kim received the art scholarship award in a ceremony at Adelphi University’s Ruth Harley Hall on March 17.      

The scholarship award is given annually to a senior who has demonstrated exemplary talent and passion in two-dimensional visual art forms.

“Our mission is to honor and recognize an outstanding senior from each member district in Nassau County who will likely pursue further studies in the fine and visual arts,” said Mary Passero, Herricks Related Arts & Business chairperson said in a statement.

Kim said she wasn’t sure why her she was chosen for the award, but she was happy with the decision. 

Kim said she most often works at drawing and painting in oil and water color. 

In addition to classes she’s taken in school, she said, she had also taken private classes in figure drawing and general artwork.

“I like to explore different mediums so I can say what I feel,” Kim said.

Kim has already been accepted for college but hasn’t yet decided where she will be going in the fall. Wherever it is, she said she plans to major in graphic design and said that her parents have consistently supported her artistic ambition.

Fine arts aren’t the only creative outlet for this multi-faceted Herricks student.

“I like music and I sing and dance,” she said.

A member of the executive board of the Herricks Dance Theater Club, she’s been a member of the club throughout her four years in high school. She also joined the Herricks Dance Crew, a hip hop group, this year. And she’s been exploring difference dance genres as a member of the Dance Repertoire Company since the beginning of her junior year.

Kim also writes poetry and prose fiction, work that she’s done mostly in the context of the English Scholars Program she’s been in during her junior and senior years.

“I like putting my thoughts on paper and showing it to others,” she said.

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