North Kingstown High School Art and Design

NKHS Youth Art Month Art Exhibit at NKHS Free Public Library! Thank you for your support! Beautiful picture of Julianna (our NKHS Color Award Winner) with Teacher of the Year (and Julie’s former Middle School Art Educator) Alicia Skaggs!

Cool NK art kids doing cool NK Art things at the NK Library

Due to Snowmageddon 2026, we have to move our opening and exhibit dates for our annual NK Free Library Exhibit. We will post new details once available. Stay tuned, stay warm!

We stand with Brown University, the students and parents impacted by this tragedy. 🤎 Our thoughts are with you during this emotional time.

Congratulations Mrs. Skaggs, North Kingstown Teacher Of The Year!!!! Anyone who has had this amazing teacher knows she’s special, what a huge advocate for the arts she is and always believing in the power of children’s creative talents. Please reach out to Mrs. Skaggs, and let her know how she’s made such an impact in your creative world! We are so proud to work alongside this amazing human!!

Happy National Women’s Day, and Happy Youth Art Month!! Did you know it’s also National Music in our Schools Month?? Sheesh, so much to celebrate!! Let’s celebrate these wonderful events by diving into the history behind the holiday-visit https://nmwa.org/art/artists/ to search for some of your favorite women in the visual arts. Clearly one of Mrs. Thompson’s favorites is

Congratulations NKHS Senior Artist Willow Hauver () on an amazing exhibit of original works at !! The exhibit, “Growth” can be seen now and works are up for sale! There’s no doubt this young person will be famous someday so consider your purchase an investment!!

A little for you on this rainy . This is Henry Ossawa Tanner (June 21, 1859 – May 25, 1937) who was an American artist who became the first African-American painter to gain international acclaim. Tanner’s mother was a black slave who had dramatically escaped via a railroad. His father was a Methodist minister and an abolitionist. Henry’s middle name, ‘Ossawa’, referred to the struggle at Osawatomie in Kansas, between pro- and anti-slavery partisans. Tanner was the first black student at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He eventually moved to Paris, France, in 1891 to study at the Académie Julian and gained acclaim in French artistic circles. In 1923, the French government elected Tanner chevalier of the Legion of Honor. The following picture, “The Banjo Lesson” gained international acclaim, refuting widely held stereotypes held by white people in the United States in the 1890s, by presenting African Americans outside of those stereotypes.

New Gallery North opening!!

WELCOME 8th GRADE!! NKHS is thrilled to see you at open house tonight at the HS at 6 pm!

Congratulations to the amazing Chenghui Lyu, for her amazing contribution to the WAA Community Project!! We are so proud of you, and look forward to seeing your talent blossom at NKHS!!