Thursday’s Annual Art Fest may have been one of the “most quality shows yet,” according to art teacher Neil Glasgow. The show lasted from 5 to 7 p.m. inside and behind the Mosaic, complete with art, food, live music and a sneak peak of the next theatre production, “The Mouse that Roared.”

The art gallery itself stood decked out floor to ceiling in student art work, with a hanging wall in the middle and surrounding pedestals displaying ceramics. Families gathered around admiring the many oil paintings, portraits, pots and sculptures, ink drawings, and even a large balsa wood bridge.

One of the artists, sophomore Colleen Dunn, complimented her peers’ work calling it all “pretty groovy.” Dunn especially appreciated the bright oil paintings showcased throughout, depicting surrealistically colored faces and vivid nude figures stretched into impossible poses.

Students stepped outside of the gallery to watch a clever art video featuring student films. Various shorts done in stop motion showed a love story between the sun and the moon who were forsaken by nature to never love until one day they break their bounds and explode off together forever.

Toward the end of the show, SDA’s theatre club flooded the Mosaic for a sneak peak of their upcoming play. The scene focused around a scientist played by junior Brett Stoner-Osborne who held in his hands a bomb capable of total world destruction, and the story takes off from there.

All in all, this year’s art fest was the “best yet” as SDA graduate Sophie Gracey put it. “Seeing everybody’s art work was just amazing,” she said. “I almost forgot how talented everyone is.”