The Camden Hills Regional High School Visual and Performing Arts Department has selected senior Jack Prime as Student of the Month for September.

Jack has been immersed in the arts during his entire high school career. As a freshman and sophomore, he took a wide range of art classes including drawing, advanced drawing and painting, jewelry, metal sculpture and photography. His painting and drawing work has been featured in the annual Student Show at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art. Because of his outstanding commitment to the visual arts, he was selected as the CHRHS participant for Haystack Studio Learning program as a sophomore.

During Jack’s junior year, he took a variety of art classes, including Advanced Art Portfolio where he created a memorable interactive digital portfolio of his process and research for a large metal sculpture project. This project involved some engineering and specialized assistance from Industrial Technology teacher, Steve Nystrom and members of the Five-Towns community. He spent many hours of focused attention on this project and showcased it at theCHRHS Fine Arts Night.

Earlier this year, he contributed his talents to the set design, construction, and painting for the winter play, Rumors of Polar Bears. He was awarded a Judges’ Commendation for this work at the 2015 Maine Drama Festival State Finals.

During this past summer, Jack worked as an intern for Tom Weis, cofounder of the Steel House Center for Design, Technology and Education in Rockland.

Currently, he is busy as the lead designer for the fall musical The Addams Family and he hopes to continue his work with set design for the winter play, Charlotte’s Web.

Jack is currently enrolled in advanced visual arts classes, and is planning to study industrial design in college.