Ikebana

IKEBANA is the Japanese art of flower arrangement. It is more than simply putting flowers in a container. It is a disciplined art form in which the arrangement is a living thing where nature and humanity are brought together. It is steeped in the philosophy of developing a closeness with nature.
As is true of all other arts, IKEBANA is creative expression within certain rules of construction. Its materials are living branches, leaves, grasses, and blossoms. Its heart is the beauty resulting from color combinations, natural shapes, graceful lines, and the meaning latent in the total form of the arrangement. IKEBANA is, therefore, much more than mere floral decoration.
The growing appreciation of Japanese art and architecture in the West has extended to the Japanese way with flowers. IKEBANA is an art, in the same sense that painting and sculpture are arts. It has a recorded history; it is backed up by articulate theories; and it is concerned with creativity. In Japan, flower arrangements are used as decorations on a level with paintings and other art objects.
(Excerpt from Ikebana international)

ANDY GOLDSWORTHY- Environmental Sculpture

Weston high school film and animation festival

Weston high school film and animation festival

May 25th, 7pm

Weston high school

Come and enjoy some flicks and popcorn with your budding animators and film directors.

Sketchbook project

Brooklyn library sketchbook project

Its shelves now feature approximately 12,500 sketchbooks from more than 130 countries. An additional 7,502 sketchbooks, including Ms. Sumayang’s drawn memoir of her past, will join the permanent collection when they return from a 14-city tour, currently in Chicago and ending in Melbourne, Australia, in November. 

On a recent Tuesday afternoon, the library drew locals and tourists like Thanassis Petropoulos, a professional comic-book artist visiting from Athens, who said he was so moved by the books that he thought he might submit his own next year. 

“This is personal, this is someone, these are moments,” Mr. Petropoulos said after leafing through several sketchbooks with his friend George Athanasiu at one of the library’s long wooden tables. “It’s like you’re having coffee with your girlfriend and you’re going to do a sketch of her. When you’re done, this ends up here and someone from around the world can see moments from your life.” 

(excerpt from NYTimes.com)

Weston high school art show 2012

Here are some highlights of the show!  Enjoy

Weston High School Art Show, May 10th 6-8pm

Weston high school student art show at the Josiah Smith Tavern

358 Boston Post Road  Weston, MA 02493

(781) 893-7320

 May 10th-May 12

Opening night May 10th from 6-8pm

May 11th, 11-5pm

May 12th, 1-4pm

To those graduating Seniors,

"Activate Art. For Art is literacy of the heart."

                            -Julie Hom-Mandell

Here is a preview of the graduating Seniors art work:

Nadeen Abu-Hasan

Molly Burchard

Libby Menders

Eliza Robson

Carolyn Shin

Margaret Wiss

Diana Zhao

Kevin Zhao

Kevin Bae

Carly Golden 

Branndon Chen

Scott Alperin

Matt Atkins

Alliyah Wheaton

Activate Art: Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts

The Festival of the Creative Arts at Brandeis was founded in 1952 by brilliant composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein.  Each spring the Brandeis campus celebrates the abundant creativity of its faculty, students and staff, joined by artist from throughout New England.

Activate Art: Creative Arts festival

Nadeen's post: A 36-Foot Tall Whirlwind of Garbage

Have you ever felt like you lived in a dump and wished all the trash was miraculously swept away? Beijing-based artist Wang Zhiyuan helps us visualize what a whirlwind of trash, ascending into the air would look like in his piece entitled Thrown to the Wind. While it seems like a novel idea for trash to disappear into the skies, the reality is that we are all living with it on Earth — some more than others.
Zhiyuan's larger-than-life tornado of plastic waste, which stands 36-feet high, represents the heaps of trash that overwhelm his hometown and its surrounding environment. The gigantic trash tower really puts the overbearing toll of the waste problem into perspective. It seems cool and colorful at first, but Zhiyuan has an underlying message to evoke a discussion by garnering attention to the problem. The artist says, “I want my art to be about something bigger than me. If it wasn’t involved in society I would feel guilty.”

Posted by Pinar 

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Nadeen's "larger than life" photo collaboration drawing with Alliyah Wheaton

Ms. Hom Mandell's inspiration art shares

Dorothea Van Camp

Yu-Wen Wu

Chu Teh Chun

Yago Hortal

Ma qingxiong

Inspired photos

Oil paint wash- work in progress