Varsity art shirts

Hi Ms. Hom,

 I just did the calculations, and everyone owes $39 for the art shirts. I know its a lot but there were a lot of hidden fees and shipping fees that I didn't see coming, sorry!

if you could collect money from people I can bring the shirts in in the morning any day. Cash or checks made out to Alexander Pierpont would work. I don't really want to give people their shirts until I have the money because I don't think I'll ever be able to get the money from them.

Thank you!

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-Langley

100 years of fashion: Wedding dresses

This does not really relate to our art class either, but the way that people dress, especially on their wedding day, is a very big part of self expression and what we choose to put on our bodies is also a form of art. This video is 100 years of fashion in wedding dresses, it goes from 1915 to 2015 showing the styles of wedding dresses throughout the ages. This is just one of many videos like this, the same channel posts 100 years of makeup, fashion, halloween costumes, body types, etc. but I felt that the wedding day was one of the most self-expressing days in a person's life, so it fits into our art class the best.

Calligraphy Art

This isn't really the type of art we do in class but I think it is so cool to watch this artist do calligraphy, it is so specific, there isn't any room for error, and he doesn't make any mistakes. It is a lot different from art we do in class because mistakes are part of the art, we work with the mistakes to make the piece better, but this type of art is so graphed out, making a mistake would mean starting over. Neither way is better than the other, but it is so cool to see his work ands him create logos for companies and shows and movies that we all recognize.

MOMA-QUEENS

Cao Fei
RMB City video


Cao Fei was born in Guangzhou, China, in 1978. She earned a BFA from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in Guangzhou, China (2001). Cao Fei’s work reflects the fluidity of a world in which cultures have mixed and diverged in rapid evolution. Her video installations and new media works explore perception and reality in places as diverse as a Chinese factory and the virtual world of "Second Life." Applying strategies of sampling, role play, and documentary filmmaking to capture individuals’ longings and the ways in which they imagine themselves—as hip-hop musicians, costumed characters, or digitized alter egos—Cao Fei reveals the discrepancy between reality and dream, and the discontent and disillusionment of China’s younger generation. Depictions of hyper-capitalistic Pearl River Delta development abound in images that echo traditional Chinese landscape painting and in the design of her own virtual utopia, RMB City. Fascinated by the world of "Second Life," Cao Fei has created several works in which she is both participant and observer through her "Second Life" avatar, China Tracy, who acts as a guide, philosopher, and tourist. Cao Fei’s work has appeared in solo exhibitions at the Serpentine Gallery, London (2008); Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California (2007); Museum Het Domein, Sittard, Netherlands (2006); and Para Site Art Space, Hong Kong (2006)....

Small Paintings

Small can be beautiful video

View of Boston

Prospect Hill

Big paintings!

Senior artist statements due 4/27, 4/28

Artist Statements

Writing an Artist’s Statement

(Please email the artist statement using Arial, pt20)

§    Student Name

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§  Title of the Piece – this alone helps the viewer understand the subject or makes him/her think about the work in a different way

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§  What did I do? (Describe the artwork, including the medium, subject matter, and inspiration.)

§  My artwork was inspired by whom or what?

§  What happened along the way? (Did anything interesting or unusual happen?  Did I solve any problems in the process? Did I change my approach to doing the project? etc.)

§  What did I learn through the art project?

§  What would I do differently next time?

§  Why is this piece important to me?

Sample Artist Statements

Ex. 1. My piece was inspired by the art of Sumi-e.  It was created by the traditional Sumi-e tools, a grinding ink stone, rice paper , Chorya brush, Ran-Chiku brush, and Maruyama brush.  After my painting was half way completed some ink water spilled on my paper but I turned it into more bamboo.

Ex.2.  Art is a way of expressing how I want to be and what I want to do.  Art is a very important thing for me because it helps me relax and be alone in my head.  In class we tried to recreate a few pieces by the artist Franz Marc’s “Blue Horses”. I had meant for the horse to be bluer, but that was no fun using only a few colours so I tried my best to use as many colours as I could.  When I finished painting it turned out not as I expected it to.  I wish I had tried to draw the horses’ anatomy better and the perspective, but I guess it can’t be as perfect as I would like. I liked Franz Marc’s style and I think I should try different things more often than just sticking to my regular medium.  I never usually use paint because I do not like the results of my work and I wish I could paint what I saw, but I realize it doesn’t have to be like how I planned it to be.

Encaustic painting student work

Lois Arthur, Encaustic painter

Painting for me is inspired by emotion, a need, a physical sensation, an experience of determination, by the need to do and undo, repeat and erase, need to release and create. Uncertainty is exciting for it presents surprises and mystery.   I love working with encaustic medium, with hot messy wax, with pigment and vibrant colors. 

Encaustic painting demo

WEEFC sponsored: Encaustic painting

Encaustic is a Greek word meaning “to heat or burn in” (enkaustikos). Heat is used throughout the process, from melting the beeswax and varnish to fusing the layers of wax. Encaustic consists of natural bees wax and dammar resin (crystallized tree sap). The medium can be used alone for its transparency or adhesive qualities or used pigmented. Pigments may be added to the medium, or purchased colored with traditional artist pigments. The medium is melted and applied with a brush or any tool the artist wishes to create from. Each layer is then reheated to fuse it to the previous layer

Common art at KARMA

http://commoncathedral.org/common-art/ Welcome to common art - a program of common cathedral which provides space, materials and caring support staff to support unhoused and low income individuals as they develop their artistic abilities. People who live in shelters, rooming houses, on unclaimed couches and benches, and on Boston's streets, gather every Wednesday at Emmanuel Church on Newbury Street to draw, paint, sculpt, make crafts, and to share with other artists in like circumstances. For most members, common art is a singular chance to express their artistic gifts. For some, art is a professional path, interrupted and suspended by calamity and homelessness. For otheres, its an opportunity to express unheard opinions, ideas and truths. For others, its pure joy, an oasis of form and color in otherwise dry times. For all, its a simple and welcome relief from daily difficulty. For many common art members, art is a way of life. For others, its a new discovery. But for all, art is passion, expressing and affirming life itself, a defiant or gentle "yes" in the face of stigma amid the constant struggle of poverty and homelessness. common art was begun in 1999 by a group of un-housed men and women with the assistance of ministers from St. John the Evangelist Church on Bowdoin Street. From its inception, the mission guiding common art has been to serve individuals within Boston's poor and homeless communities by providing resources and opportunities for creating and participating in the arts. This is a wonderful opportunity within the Boston community. As one person expressed, "common art is famous! Everybody knows about it on the street!" In its present form, common art works both to promote access to the arts for its members and to help facilitate the expression of members' artistic gifts. In this way, common artacknowledges the dignity of all human beings and honors the divine creativity within each person. Through proactive advocacy, common art provides companionship and inclusive community, a place to come together and to share with other artists. common art embraces all artistic expression as healing and healthful, affirming of life itself. As Shaun McNiff of Lesley College expressed in his book Art as Medicine, "Whenever illness is associated with loss of soul, the arts emerge spontaneously as remedies, as soul medicine." common art is guided by this profound understanding. common art is open to all.common art meets once a week, on Wednesday from 10am to 2pm at Emmanuel Church  When: April 10th, 2016 from 10:00am- 2:00pm  Where: Karma-Newton, 57 Union Street Newton Center

Karma, 57 Union St., Newton Centre, MA 02459 Try it free today

K12 art show and Ice cream social is May 17th from 6-8pm, not May 19th

VARSITY ART T SHIRTS FOR SALE. ANY ART STUDENT CAN BUY. SCROLL DOWN TO NEXT LINK

Senior sign up

May 17^th- K-12 art show and ice cream social

Seniors please sign up

	Senior Demo	Set up, materials	Time 6:45-7:30
Katie Valle
Gabby  Rodowicz	Henna
Tenzin Norzin
Kimmie Nahigian
Arm
Maddie Hayes	Painting	Acrylic paint and canvas
Natalia Gormley
Katie Marlow-Benedick
Isabella Cerrutti
Langley Pierpont
Zoe Morris

 

ART SHIRTS

If you want an art shirt write your last name and size in this googledoc:

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Art mural Senior signing: April 15th and NOW