Solebury School's Fine Arts Newsletter - September 2014

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S O L E B U RY F I N E A RT S WELCOME TO ANOTHER CREATIVE YEAR!

DICKSON SORENSON

KEVIN COOK

Your teachers in the Fine Art Department Our newest teacher is Kevin Cook who is teaching photography. He is a graduate of Temple University with a degree in Film & Media Arts and Journalism. His Master’s is in photojournalism from University of Missouri.

Dickson continues as our Digital Filmmaking instructor. Erika is teaching Ceramics, Art History, & Printmaking,. Kirby is teaching Drawing & Painting, Design, Life Drawing, & AP Art..Quinn is teaching Digital Design.

ERIKA BONNER

QUINN WATERS

www.kirbyfredendall.com kevincookphoto.samexhibit.com http://www.sorensenfilm.com/ www.thecaffeinemachine.tumblr.com

KIRBY FREDENDALL

L I F E D R AW I N G

top left to right: Charlotte Martin Charlotte Martin Kate Voynow middle: Alex Babicki Isabella Blasucci

STUDENTS IN LIFE DRAWING BEGIN THEIR YEAR WORKING ON SHORT SKETCHES CALLED “GESTURE DRAWINGS.” THESE QUICK STUDIES HELP THE STUDENTS TO “SEE” THE FIGURE IN ITS ENTIRETY AS A SUM OF ITS PARTS. IN 30 SECONDS, 1 MINUTE, AND 2 MINUTE INTERVALS THEY DRAW THE GESTURE OF THE WHOLE FIGURE. AS THE CLASS PROGRESSES THE LENGTH OF THE POSE LENGTHENS. THESE PIECES WERE COMPLETED IN 10 MINUTE USING MARKER ON NEWSPRINT PAPER.

BEGINNING PAINTING & DRAWING Mei Rizzo, Ben Gabinet Aspen Souder, Abigail Mott Nate Weis Kevin Wang

BEGINNING PAINTING & DRAWING STUDENTS START BY LEARNING VERY BASIC SKILLS, SUCH AS CREATING STRAIGHT AND PARALLEL LINES, BALANCED ELLIPSES, AND CUBES. THEY THEN USE THESE BASIC SKILLS TO CREATE DRAWINGS FROM ACTUAL OBJECTS, TAKING CARE TO OBSERVE THE OBJECTS AS A WHOLE GROUP USING POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE SPACE. THESE PIECES WERE CREATED WITH CHARCOAL ON NEWSPRINT PAPER.

BEGINNING P & D, CONT...

Andrei Benoliet, Ellie Herman Daniel Wang Olivia Lutz, Ellie Herman, Haolun Liu

WHAT HAVE OUR GRADUATES BEEN UP TO IN THE A RTS ?

FEATURED ARTISTS 1. HAYLEY OWENS 2. TESSA MANIA 3. ANNIE PARHAM 4. THOMAS SHAPIRO 5. ASHLEY COLON

Hayley Owens Class of 2011 Hayley has been working in

hours each day. More recently

Philadelphia at Studio Incamminati. Its founder is

she has been interested in plant/fungus botany illustration

Nelson Shanks, who teaches academic contemporary

and is also working on more craft oriented art forms such

realism in various mediums such as oil painting, graphite,

as sewing and knitting.

charcoal, and sometimes plastiline. She worked from the figure 5 days a week for 6

Tessa Mania Class of 2011 Tessa Mania is a senior at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she is working on a

SAIC's The Walk annual fashion show, in downtown Chicago's Millennium Park. Tessa spends most of

degree in fashion design. Her work as a fashion designer focuses on sustainability, using all organic and fair trade materials, as well as working with socially linked products whenever possible.

Conceptually her work draws on her family’s own

her summers interning in the New York fashion world and plans on moving there after graduation.

history in the garment trade, while addressing larger issues of labor and the contemporary cultural value of hand made. The attached image is of her junior collection which showed in May at

A N NI E PA R H A M “ WATER FLOWS LIKE IMAGINATION. WITH THIS SERIES OF WATERCOLORS, I WANT TO TA P I NTO TH E V IV ID I MAGINATION OF MY CHILDHOOD” CLASS OF 2009

ANNIE PARHAM GRADUATED WITH A BACHELORS IN FINE ARTS FROM GREEN MOUNTAIN COLLEGE IN 2013. SHE IS CURRENTLY LIVING AND MAKING ART IN DORSET, VERMONT. SHE WORKS WITH VARIOUS MEDIUMS INCLUDING WATER COLORS, PHOTOGRAPHY, AS WELL AS PAPIER-MÂCHÉ.

ANNIEAPARHAM.COM

T H O M A S S H A P I RO CLASS OF 2009

THIS PAST YEAR I HAVE BEEN ADDRESSING THE NOTION OF WHAT IT IS LIKE TO BE QUEER IN THE US AND BEING FURTHER INTROSPECTIVE AS TO HOW BEING QUEER HAS MADE ME THE PERSON I AM TODAY. MY WORK ADDRESSES THE COMMODIFICATION AND MAINSTREAMING OF QUEER CULTURE, SELF-LOATHING AND SUBVERSION OF SEXUALITY, AND THE BEAUTY OF CAMP. THE WORK HINGES ON SURREAL DREAM SPACESBOTH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL, THE BLURRING OF REALITY, AND PRODUCING ODD NARRATIVE.

A S HL E Y CO L O N CLASS OF 2010

I HAVE BEEN TAKING CLASSES THAT CHALLENGE ME AND KEEP ART IN MY LIFE. I TOOK A MURAL PAINTING CLASS AND USED MY SECTION OF THIS GROUP MURAL TO PAINT THE EGGS OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS FROM STATES I HAD BEEN TO. THE MURAL WAS PUT UP IN THE LIBRARY.