This year SCHS’s Art Society again participated in the Fly Art’s annual Festival of Trees. This year’s theme was “All I want for Christmas…”, which we interpreted as “All I want for Christmas is You.” We hearkened back to the WWII era, thinking of all the soldiers overseas missing their sweethearts back home, and all the loyal girls over here missing their fellas. I think this is such a romantic era; I think of all the letters my grandmother has from my grandfather who was a merchant marine during the war. This is what really inspired this theme.
I pictured a tree covered with nostalgia: tea stain and silver, black and white photos of couples, old letters, some glitz. I told one of our talented students about the famous photo taken in Times Square, and she replicated it in clay, beautifully. What a lovely tree our students created. And the judges thought so too. . . we took away FOUR awards this year!! This tree meant so much to me, thank you to everyone who worked so hard.
Once again our art club has created a tremendous banner for the Board of Education. Each year the Board asks a school to volunteer to create this banner, which is no small feat! Congrats to the SCHS Art Society for a super job on this year’s banner!!
Art students working on bannerArt Society President Jon Lee and Vice President Stephanie Simmons
And a year later. . . our Christmas trees from the 2013 Festival of Trees! Each year the Fly Arts Center showcases beautiful trees decorated by businesses and organizations around town. Our art students always do a lovely job representing us! This year the theme was “‘Tis the Season to Sparkle and Shine.” The SCHS Art club did an awesome job interpreting this theme with a beautiful, handcrafted tree. Many of the metallic ornaments look like metal, although they are all paper. We were delighted to take home a 2nd place award for “Best Handcrafted.” Hope you enjoy our trees!
Panel with Stippled Pumpkins, Advanced Drawing
Two-Point Perspective Interiors, Art I
Bedford County Art Teachers…tired but happy!
Art appreciation!! 😀
Panel with Illuminated Letters, Art I
Jake H. with Two-Point Perspective interior
Katee C. with Pop Art Portrait
van Gogh Mini Landscapes
Amber R. with Monochromatic Pop Art Portrait (green)
Hannah C. with Pop Art Portrait
Panel with “Art with Text” artworks, Advanced Drawing
Egyptian Portraits, Color Wheel “Rose Windows,” Art I
Logan B. with Illuminated Letter
Karina K. with Two-Point perspective interior
Advanced art students Jon, Katee, & Amber with Ms. Cartwright
…standing in front of a lovely whole class collaborative drawing these guys participated in.
Stephanie S. with Two-Point Perspective interior
Panel with Greek Capital Collages, Art I
Egyptian Portrait, Rose Windows, Art I
Monochromatic Pop Art Portrait, Advanced Painting
Manny A. with Two-Point Perspective interior
Panel with Monochromatic Pop Art Portraits, Advanced Painting
Rose Windows, Art I
Jacob P. with Illuminated Letter
Miranda H. with “Art with Text” drawing
This year’s Youth Art Show was a once again a great success! As usual, I procrastinated until the last minute and stressed myself out a lot more than necessary. . .why, oh why, do I do that? But, it came together. It’s in the Fly Arts Center (a renovated turn-of-the-century factory)Â every year for a couple of hours on Sunday afternoon, and our numbers have grown steadily from a couple of hundred to over 1,500 this year. Every art teacher in our county brings student art to display; students, families, friends, faculties, etc. are invited.
I only wish every single educator and administrator in our dear system could see the raw talent we are blessed with. AND, I only wish we’d had our van Gogh-inspired paintings finished in time for the show. Oh, well — here’s some pics of the show along with students of mine I coerced into taking a photo with their artwork :). Hope you enjoy, and comments welcome!!
Once again this year SCHS art students had the opportunity to create a banner for the Bedford County Board of Education to take to its annual convention to represent our school system. The theme this year was “Everyone in for Education,” Although we were working on an extremely tight deadline the kids pulled through and did a remarkable job on this eight foot banner! Art students who took part in its creation include Katee Cargill, Amber Knapp, Chelsey Avina, Jon Lee, Michelle Cooper, and Francisco Carillo. Great job, guys!! 🙂
