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Over the last week, Marty Carney, 2016 Spring Semester Artist-in-Residence has finished a large painting in his studio (room 17) entitled: “Undone (After Wright and Schmalz).” (See below).

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Then after finishing this work, with Mr. Juarez’ help, Marty has hung the five paintings which he has created during his time at North High School in the 2nd floor Art Gallery. There will be a public reception on Thursday, June 2, 2016, 3.45-5.00pm.

Finally, Marty has met with Mr. Soik’s Honors Humanities class this past week to begin brainstorming with them the final ArtPlosion creativity event which will begin next Tuesday, May 24th.  After the brainstorming, Marty has been collecting various objects and supplies for the art project.

Over the past week, North High School artist-in-residence Marty Carney has begun a new larger painting on a 40x30inch canvas.  Beyond the preliminary work of underpainting and sketching the basic design, you see below the progression after two sessions of painting in the studio:

In addition to beginning this new painting, this past week Marty has continued to sit in with Dr. Soik’s Honors Humanities II class as they presented various panel discussions about their chosen topics about Christianity and Western Civilization.

Marty Carney, Spring Semester Artist in Residence, has almost finished his latest oil painting in room 17.  He says that, perhaps, just another hour of finishing touches next week and it will be completed.  Here it is so far…

This week on Thursday, Marty also continued with Mr. Soik’s Honors Humanities class as they pondered and discussed “The Question of God” in Western Civilization through interacting with a video presentation which juxtaposed CS Lewis and Sigmund Freud, and their differing responses to that question.  Marty’s initial response, no surprise for an artist, was to create a sketch which explored  the question from his artistic, intuitive perspective…

And so, Marty says that this interaction between art and culture is “an intriguing adventure.”

There is Hope is an annual walk for suicide awareness in Sheboygan. This year Drawing/Painting II art students were asked to create proposed sketches for this year’s walk. We’ll soon find out which one will make it onto the t-shirt. Stay tuned…

Marty Carney, Artist in Residence at North High School during the 2016 Spring Semester, has been happily painting in his OpenSpaces Studio (room 17) over the the last week.  His oil painting is taking shape, now one person at a time, as you can see in the three photos below:

Beyond painting, Marty continues to meet with Mr. Soik’s Honors Humanities II class as they are currently studying the Jewish and Christian movements and their impact on Western Civilization.  There may yet be another ArtPlosion project on the horizon with the class before the end of the school year.

This past week has been filled with a variety of creativity with classes at North High School for Artist-in-Residence, Marty Carney.  On Friday, March 11th, a group from Mr. Soik’s Honors Humanities II class chose to participate in an “ArtPlosion” in the OpenSpacesStudio.  The students created images which helped them to integrate their learning about Roman civilization and to prepare to write a major paper.  Below you see the students at work and then several of their finished products.

Students creating in the their “ArtPlosion” work.

Then on Thursday, March 17th, Marty  accompanied Mr. Soik and his class to the Jewish synagogue, Congregation Beth El, as they begin to explore the Jewish story as part of Western Civilization.  Below they are exploring Jewish symbols and being told stories about Jewish history by Robert Matzner, congregational leader and local Holocaust survivor.

This week, AiR | Artist-in-Residence Marty Carney welcomed students from Mr. Soik’s Honors Humanities II Class into his OpenSpacesStudio as they began to visualize and sketch preliminary ideas for their upcoming paper on Roman civilization.  Below you see several of their sketches in progress:

Sketching an idea…

The beginnings of a Hero…

Beginning sketch of a Roman eagle or “Aquila” in Latin