The Blair G. Ewing Center is MCPS’s Alternative Education Program, designed to serve students with a variety of learning and social emotional needs. John Charles, art teacher at the center, has spent the past several years crafting the visual arts program to allow the students to express their creativity and emotions while also fulfilling their art credit requirements. The classes “blend several studio media, printmaking, sculpture, photography and digital arts” says Charles, whose own background in silk-screening encourages the students to layer drawings and photographs with abstract elements to create multimedia compositions. The January show will feature large- and small-scale prints from current students and recent alumni.