Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts unveiled its First Class exhibit in January at The Lobby Gallery on Park Avenue in NYC. The exhibition will move to the Tilles Center in Brookville on March 8 and remain until the 22nd. The works were creations by artists from this Wheatley Heights-based summer arts camp who were in the Portfolio Preparation Track program, an intensive course designed to help students develop a strong college portfolio. usdan.com.

Derek Mainhart, teenaged artists Jessica Curry and Denise Losee; Rochelle Morgan, Andrew Copper

Denise Losee of Deer Park

Michele Lowe, Dale Lewis

Jessica Curry, of North Merrick

Work by Nicole Wildstein

Board of Directors, Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts