Yayoi Kusama is making her presence known at the Hirshhorn! She is an avant-garde sculptor, painter and novelist. Her pumpkin has arrived and it is a lovely foretelling of the work that will be on exhibit in February! We will be so lucky to experience the Infinity Mirrors. I had the pleasure of experiencing her work at the Mattress Factory a year ago in Pittsburgh with my students. They were awestruck and inspired. This will surely be a must see in our own backyard!
Today was the annual trek up to Philadelphia to visit the Globe Dye Works! These seniors had the opportunity to talk with artists, artisans, fabricators and an array of small businesses.
The exhibition for inspiration is exhilarating and the students really enjoyed the experience and the artwork of Shih Cheih Huang.
Our students will explore the idea of Interactions through their preferred media. They will work through idea generation, the process of building/creating their response to exhibit in the Spring at
As I prepared to begin another school year, nice even year 22, I had the total pleasure of taking off to NYC for a day trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. I went with my clever and intrepid studio art department friends!
It was awesome to see the work of Diane Arbus: In The Beginning in the new Met Breuer as well as the Thoughts Left Unfinished a thorough and beautiful exhibition of artwork that remain unfinished by their makers beginning from the Renaissance to now.
Our studio art department has grown this year! We are so lucky to have four in our little department!
The Workhouse has been repurposed into artist studios!
Each cell block features a variety of media, genre and local artisans.
It is a first class facility with incredible artists.
My sons and I have participated in animation classes, pottery classes, art exhibitions and even performances!
Cell Block 8: Ceramics Studio
There are continuous opportunities for community engagement. This coming weekend, July 9th, the Workhouse will host it's 8th Annual Ice Cream Social! Patrons can purchase a beautifully crafted bowl created by the artists at the Workhouse to load up with tasty ice cream treats! All the proceeds benefit the ceramics program.
We are so fortunate to have such an incredible multi-purposed community arts center nearby!
A great choice for a celebration our nation
and the freedoms we enjoy this July 4th.
It was a lovely weather night, perfect for fireworks!
Recently, I was given the pleasure to jury the first high school art show for the new gallery space housed at the Public Education Foundation in Las Vegas, NV. The artwork was stunning and it was no easy task to select the art to curate the In A Word show! The following is my juror statement with just a small sampling of the talent from these incredible teenagers!
Cracked Track Chappelle Kent
It has been said that a picture is worth a thousand words, but it can also be worth just one.
Whether resulting from a visceral reaction to a powerful image or the pure emotion of a fading
memory, In a Word represents the profound impact a piece of artwork can have on its viewer.
Fear the Darkness Savannah Pessin
Our current visual culture engages the viewer beyond words using a treasure trove of images --
created with a camera, an artist’s hands or simple brushstrokes. The selected artworks feature a
concise efficiency, an ability to give you a single word, if any at all, to define what you are
experiencing when interacting with the work.
Unwritten Chelsea Suarez
Using their surroundings or layering the words to
create subtle undertones and meanings, the young visual artists chosen for In a Word used their
voices to create a feast for the eyes. A feast our society increasingly responds to with visual
answers – in some cases superseding the necessity for any words at all.
It has become a tradition to take the Photography One students to the National Zoo in the Spring! This year marks the fourth year. It was by far the best!
This year we began our journey to the National Zoo via the Vienna Metro with 112 students and 11 fearless chaperones.
The weather was perfect and the enthusiasm was outstanding!
Students searched the Zoo high and low for their doppelgangers, the ambiguities of man interacting with beast, inspired by Garry Winogrand, animals in their surroundings and also free of their enclosures, and finally textures and patterns that are found in abundance when you have such magnificent beasts!
We toured the Visionary Art Museum exhibition celebrating it's 20 years: Big Hope! The exhibition focuses on Hope and Community. These are ideas we have been looking at all year as an Art Department in our classes! The students also participated in a workshop. They looked at the work of Gregory Warmack, Mr. Imagination, and his amazing portraits created from everyday upcycled objects.
We also toured the Baltimore Museum of Art. Their featured exhibition was Imagining Home. We explored a variety of perceptions of home and belonging.
There were a plethora of meaningful conversations and observations!
