Legislative Art Exhibition

Caitlin Wemette and Brittni Curtin have been chosen as Maple Hill High School's representation at the 22nd Annual Legislative Student Art Exhibition. Both were accepted for their self-portraits.  School districts from across New York State participate in this exhibition.

The NYSATA Legislative Exhibit is co-sponsored by the New York State Alliance for the Arts in Education (NYSSAE). This student art exhibit is held in the Legislative Well in the Capitol Building in Albany each spring. Legislators from across the state are invited to share the artistic accomplishments of their aspiring artist constituents at a reception for students, parents and teachers. Each student receives a certificate from NYSATA and many receive letters and/or photographs from their elected representatives.

Announcing the 22nd Annual Legislative Student Art Exhibition
March 12–16, 2012
Legislative Office Building, “Well” Area, Albany, NY
Opening Reception: Wednesday, March 14, 12:30-2:00 p.m.

13th Annual Regional Juried Art Exhibition

Seven Maple Hill High School Art Students been juried into the 13th Annual Regional Juried Art Exhibition. This is a great honor, as the artworks are chosen by a panel of professional artists. This year artwork was juried by faculty members of The College of Saint Rose Art Department. This year 20 schools submitted 500 works of art.  Eighty-eight  2D works were selected and 13- 3D works were selected. Maple Hill High School will be represented by Caitlin Wemette, Brittni Curtin, Matthew Fiebke, Kirsten Geracitano, Alicia Rivers-Barton, Ian Myers and Samantha Giacomino.

The opening reception will  be held in conjunction with Albany's First Friday Events on March 2nd. After your tour of the High School Regional display, we encourage you to check out all the exciting things in downtown Albany. The High School Regional is a unique opportunity to be part of a juried exhibition. The Esther Massry Gallery is an exceptional venue to showcase our talented student artists.

 All are welcome to come support!

RECEPTION

Friday, March 2, 2012

5:00-7:00 p.m.

Awards and Keynote Address

7:00 p.m.

Esther Massry Gallery
The College of St. Rose

1002 Madison Ave.
Albany, NY 12203

Keynote Speaker:

Tim Rollins and KOS

Some beautiful ceramic work!

Mrs. Pazienza's ceramic class has been busy glazing away on various projects. So far they have explored various handbuilding methods including slab and coil and have had lots of practice on the wheel. I will post more pictures soon, but here are a few I took the other day. Aren't they beautiful?!

Stuart Allen

Leaf Plate, Alyxe Perry

Stuart Allen, Bowl

Alyxe Perry, Slab box

Alyxe Perry, slab detail

Alyxe Perry, Coil Pot

Drawing and Painting Self-Portraits

I am so proud of Drawing and Painting! Take a look at a few of the self-portraits from this year. Students used water-soluble wash pencils. They were studying Photorealism. Photorealism is based on using the camera and photographs to gather information and creating a work of art that appears photographic. The term is primarily applied to paintings from the art movement that began in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Photorealism was a reaction against Abstract Expressionism and grew out of Pop Art.

Stuart Allen

Samantha Giacomino

Kirsten Geracitano

Franco Fettuccia

Anna Curtin

Brittni Curtin

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Not too sure why, but something has happened where we can't make or view comments anymore on this blog. I am trying to figure it out. Next week I will be posting FANTASTIC self-portraits created by my drawing class. I am so proud of them.

Light Drawings- Photography

Creativity! Don't mind the backwards C. :)

Photography

Dance!

Here is a simple fun assignment. We made these photos today in photography. Here is what you do:

Get a light source (we used our cell phones and some glow sticks). Turn the lights off. Put your camera on a tripod. Lower the ISO to 80 or 100. Use shutter speed priority and lower your Shutter Speed for a long exposure or if you have a DSLR put in on BULB.

If you have a simple point and shoot without shutter speed priority put it on the night landscape mode and turn your flash off.

Take your picture and start drawing! So much fun! I will post more pictures later, but these are some collaborative light drawings.

Land Art/ Earthworks 2011!

Today was great! We are all exhausted from a full day of Land Art activities. After studying the Land Art movement of the 1960's and 70's, Advanced Studio in Art created site specific, ephemeral sculptures in the woods behind the high school. We specifically studied the works of Robert Smithson and Andy Goldsworthy.

Land Art is a form of contemporary art. Also known also as Earthworks, or Earth Art, this movement emerged when a number of sculptors and painters became determined to heighten public awareness of our relationship with the natural world by intervening in the landscape in a series of thought-provoking constructions.

These (frequently massive) land-based interventions or artworks took a variety of forms, from large-scale land artworks like man-made curtains reaching across vast stretches of landscape, the encirclement of whole islands in coloured fabric, and reshaped waterways and volcanoes, to simple lines of footprints in the earth.

Andy Goldsworthy, is a British sculptor, photographer and environmentalistproducing site-specific sculpture and land art situated in natural and urban settings. He lives and works in Scotland.The materials used in Andy Goldsworthy's art often include brightly-coloured flowers, icicles, leaves, mud, pinecones, snow, stone, twigs, and thorns. He has been quoted as saying, "I think it's incredibly brave to be working with flowers and leaves and petals. But I have to: I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole." For his ephemeral works, Goldsworthy often uses only his bare hands, teeth, and found tools to prepare and arrange the materials.

Robert Smithson is most well known for his provocative earthwork, the Spiral Jetty, made in 1970. This monumental earthwork was inspired in part when Smithson saw the Great Serpent Mound, a Pre-Columbian Indian monument in southwestern Ohio. The earthworks were a radical departure from making formal objects situated in a gallery setting.

Thanks again to our lovely Librarian, Mrs. Eustace for her help today!

http://www.robertsmithson.com/introduction/introduction.htm