AP Studio & Portfolio students go on ARC field trip #2

The students in Ms. Holliday's 10th bell class visited the Pendleton Art Center and the Taft Museum on Friday Nov. 19. During this trip, students first visited the studio of Radha Chandrashekaran to learn about her work, her working process, and her source of inspiration.

After visiting the Pendleton, most of us, minus Caroline :( went on to the Taft.

While at the Taft, students did creative presentations on an artwork of their choice.

After the presentations, we had a little time to explore the area around the Taft.

It's cold outside...but it's hot in the kiln!

After what seemed like an "Indian Summer", our warm weather is coming to an end and is being replaced by chapped lips, dry hands, winter coats, heating bills, and frosted car windows.  But let's look on the bright side - it's hot chocolate season!  And Mrs. Lie's Ceramics I students are going to be ready for it.  They worked hard on creating handbuilt slab mugs with handles.  They have all been bisque fired and are awaiting a glaze finish, which the students will do after the Thanksgiving holiday.  These mugs will be perfect for hot chocolate or coffee on cold, wintery days!

One class's masterpieces

Samples from all three Ceramics I classes

AP Studio & Portfolio student Concentration Blogs

During the course of their work in the AP Studio Art and Portfolio classes, students are blogging about the development of their Concentrations. The Concentration Section of the AP portfolio allows students to explore a theme and create a body of at least 12 works that are connected visually as well as by their idea. Check out the blogs at the links below. Feel free to comment, give suggestions, share resources, etc.
Note: Princeton City Schools does not manage pages linked below. Owners of these sites are responsible for the content.

Savannah Arner http://realityvsanime.blogspot.com/

Emma Ficke http://emmafickeapart.blogspot.com/

Abby Friend http://mommyandcorashima.blogspot.com/

Holly Grender http://hollygrender.blogspot.com/

Keyci Hiratsuka http://Kaocyn.Tumblr.com

Meera Martindale http://meercatmagicalblogs.blogspot.com/

Jon Medina http://jmconcentration.tumblr.com/

Vishal Mody http://apportfolio-indian2012.blogspot.com/

Caroline Pickering http://carolineleepickering.blogspot.com/

Andy Piotowski http://piotrowski-andy.blogspot.com

Allie Porter http://alexandrajporter.blogspot.com/

Benny Poynter http://bennysartadventures.blogspot.com

Claudia Saunders

Dani Scharfenberger http://dscharf2012.blogspot.com/

Matt Shelton http://sheltonmatt.blogspot.com/

Paige Siler http://anotherpaigeinabook.blogspot.com/

Marissa Watson http://rissawatson.blogspot.com/

http://claudiaartblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/concentration-idea.html

Figure Drawing? There's an App for that

Check this out! It’s a Japanese site, but Google will translate it for you. There is a free iphone App for figure drawing.

http://www.posemaniacs.com/blog/

AP Studio & Portfolio students begin the ARC program

On Oct. 14, students in Ms. Holliday's 10th bell class went on a field trip to the Taft Museum of Art to begin the ARC program (http://www.taftmuseum.org/pages/arc.php). This program will allow students multiple learning opportunities through exposure to the artwork in the collection at the Taft Museum as well as interaction with local contemporary working artists. On our first trip, we toured the museum to view the artwork and learn about the history of the building. Next, students will choose a single artwork in the museum to do a creative presentation on during our next visit, late November (I hear that one the subjects of a portrait painting there, may soon have a MySpace page!). We are also looking forward to our first classroom visit by artist Troy Brown earlier in November! Stay tuned on this Blog for more happenings with the ARC program at PHS.

Here is a photo on the way back from our trip, on the bus, bellies full of Chipotle!

 

PHS Art Student work featured in Xavier University Exhibition

Congratulations to PHS Art students Abby Friend and Kaori Hiratsuka who had work accepted in the juried student art exhibition at Xavier University. Abby’s collage called “Jazz It Up,” and Kaori’s photo called “Typhoid” will hang in the Gallery in the XU Art building from November 12-December 3. Reception and Awards ceremony will be Nov. 12 from 6-8pm.

Commercial Art Gallery 10/17/10

The students in Ms. Sand's Commercial Art classes have been working very diligently this semester to master the Adobe Photoshop CS2 software. After a quarter of building a library of tools and design skills, Commercial Art students should have a strong start to the 2nd quarter!

Destiny P.

Darron C.

Demante M.

Dan M.

Katie C.

David S.

Demante M.

Shakira B.

David V.

AP Studio & Portfolio classes create Unusual Self-Portraits

The students in Ms. Holliday's AP Studio and Portfolio class were challenged to create unusual self-portraits that employ pattern, rhythm, or repetition. First we looked at unusual self-portraits by famous artists such as Chuck Close, Frida Kahlo, Andy Warhol, Francis Bacon and Cindy Sherman. Then students began their individual self-portraits. Here are just a few:

IB Visual Art Students creating student artist websites!

The IB Visual Arts Students at PHS are creating student websites that will feature themselves as artists and will eventually include a gallery of their work! Stay tuned...by the end of Quarter 1, students will have the base for their website up and running. Links will be posted!

Welcome to the Princeton High School Art Department Blog!

Welcome! Thanks for checking out our Blog!
This was created in efforts to advertise, communicate, and let's just face it, SHOW OFF all of the awesome things that happen in the Art Department at Princeton High School.
Stay tuned...the art teachers: Rachelle Williams, Lindsay Holliday, Melissa Sand, Emily Lie, and Elizabeth Knodle will be posting soon! Check back for updates, information, and photos of the amazing things happening in the world of Visual Arts at PHS.