Milwaukee-based sculptor and UW-Milwaukee art professor, Kathryn E. Martin visited the advanced art classes today to talk about what UW-Milwaukee’s Peck School of the Arts offers to incoming freshman. The art students had the opportunity to see what Kathryn’s newest sculptures.
UW-Milwaukee's Kathryn E. Martin visits North High Art Dept
With the help of a student focus group, the North High Art Dept is happy to announce its official Mission Statement for 2011-2012. This will provide us with a roadmap to prepare high school art students for tomorrow’s journeys.
Sheboygan North High Art Department
Mission Statement
The mission of the North High Art Department is to create a safe and nurturing learning environment that will stimulate risk-taking, originality and collaboration through the use of 21st Century Skills in both communication and a rigorous studio practice.
Sheboygan Press, April 17, 2011
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http://www.sheboyganpress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2011104170332
Nova Czarnecki is a local Milwaukee artist who came to talk to the Advanced 3D students for part of the Artist Lecture Series here at North High School. Her work, which is mostly oil paintings of people, all represent symbolism or stories of different sorts. Some of her painting topics include bird’s, women, orb’s of light, the woods, and her experiences or travels. Czarnecki also paints her fears in order to work through them to the point she no longer is afraid of them.
The Drawing/Painting II students have been studying different compositions based on a fruit still life. Each student had to decide on a composition in which his/her painting will be based upon. Using a spotlight, they can utilize the direct light to portray the highlights, midtones and shadows created.
The images provided are of painting in progress.
I am Kristi, the artist of this optical illusion. This piece was done in 2011, my sophomore year at Sheboygan North High school. I have been taking art all my life and it has become on of my many passions. This piece was an art project and is now a mural. This piece was inspired by doodling. my ideas never fully spark until I have the paper in front of me and I just draw. I sit and draw lots of different ideas and they are never fully developed until the last minute.
I began with 9 squares and drew different patterns and designs in each given square. The patterns consisted of line and shapes like squares, rectangles and circles. The large circles in the painting are giving the window affect. Looking into the painting it will seem like you are looking out a window through the circles and squares. This was a class project where I began to sketch it out into my sketchbook and my teacher suggested on making a larger scale of this piece. I used a large compass and a ruler to draw it out; it was colored in with black sharpies. This large scaled optical illusion has now become a piece of art on the wall of the North High basement outside of room 025.
This painting is in progress.
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Yesterday, our 3rd visiting artist was Melissa Dorn Richards, an oil painter from Milwaukee. She finds ideas and inspiration from everyday objects that we often overlook on a daily basis or take for granted. Her application, limited use of color and chosen imagery delivers a powerful visual impact on what truly is seen as “beauty is in the eye of the beholder”.
Melissa talking about one of her paintings
Her Artist Statement:
Sometimes it is an object that catches my eye; at other times, it is a pattern. I take that object or pattern out of context, removing the extraneous, and re-present it to you to again consider and examine. I am intent on capturing and focusing your attention on that “thing” that has caught my eye by using bold color and employing lines or shapes to control and add impact.
It is the exploration of color and shape that I am most interested in. Organic shapes are the most appealing to me because they are often slightly asymmetrical, which works within the context of how I use line. The line, or outline, in my work is never perfect, the thickness of the line varies as it follows the shape creating an even more asymmetrical form.
There is rarely angst in my work, more likely you’ll find a veiled sense of humor and a certain pleasure in their simplicity.
Visit her at www.melissadornrichards.com to learn more about Melissa and to see more work.
– NHS Art Department
On November 12, Kathryn E. Martin visited North High Art Department to participate in its Artist Lecture Series.
“I observe benal objects and through close examination, find inspiration and artistic expression. Concentrating on formal characteristics I make marks, leave alterations, and change inherent functions. The process I incorporate uses and re-uses the whole of its parts through dissection, interpretation, repetition, and assemblage”.
– Kathryn E. Martin
Sculptor, Kathryn E. Martin visit NHS Art Department
To view the video from this presentation visit us at www.nhsart.com
Visit Kathryn at www.kathrynemartin.com
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