Matthew Janger, Arlington High School principal, reported the following Monday, Feb. 5:
“Wings’ by AHS, Ottoson artists at 2017 Mass Art show, explained below.
Arlington High School and Ottoson art students have won a total of 14 art awards including Gold Key, Silver Key and Honorable Mention awards in the 2018 Scholastic Art Awards competition. Art works in photography, mixed media, printmaking, painting, drawing and sculpture were recognized for their excellence.
The Scholastic Art Awards competition is considered to be one of the most prestigious student art competitions at the state and national levels. Judges look for works that best exemplify originality, technical skill and the emergence of a personal voice or vision.
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Congratulations to all of the art teachers at both schools, to all of the art students who have won awards and to all students who submitted their art work this year.
Let’s hear it for AHS art teachers for regional show
David Ardito, K-12 director of visual arts for the Arlington Public Schools, provided the following:
Congratulations to the fabulous AHS art-teaching team — David Moore, Annie Rebola and Nikki McCulloch — for the recent installation of almost 50 art works by high school art students at the Lexington Society of Arts and Crafts. Every visual art course at AHS is represented in this regional high school exhibit near Lexington Center.
The art programs from Arlington, Winchester, Lexington, Bedford, Lexington Christian Academy, Burlington, Waltham and more are represented.
The Arlington High School work demonstrates the great variety of media, approaches and concepts that Arlington is becoming known for. Congratulations to all exhibiting students and their art teachers.
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Closing reception held for AHS, OMS ‘Wings’ at MassArt
UPDATED, Dec. 14: The Ottoson and High School Art Departments participated in creating collaborative student art works have been selected to be part of an exhibit at the Mass College of Art and Design called “Challenging Curriculum in The Visual Arts.” A closing reception is set for Thursday, Dec. 14, 5 to 7 p.m.
The exhibit, from Dec. 4 through 15, includes middle and high school student work from Boston and beyond that investigates themes of social justice, identity, diversity, immigration, homelessness and gun violence.
The artwork shown in this exhibit represents the increasing emphasis in the Arlington K-12 Visual Art curriculum on the power of art to communicate personal feelings about important social issues.
The image at right is a large collaborative piece that is part of the show. Two-hundred and fifty AHS students in courses taught by the two teachers in the photo contributed one feather each to the spectacular piece called “Wings.”
Each feather represented the student artist’s personal answer to the question “What Lifts You?” by street artist Kelsey Montague.
The art teachers are Annie Rebola, left, and Nikki McCulloch.
The main idea of the project was to give students an opportunity to examine what inspires not only their art making but what motivates and inspires them in many ways in their individual lives.
“I’m very proud of the fact that Arlington visual art teachers and their students are represented in this very important Mass Art exhibit that highlights school arts programs that are getting students to ‘investigate themes of social justice, identity, diversity, immigration, homelessness and gun violence’ through their art making,” commented Ardito on Nov. 20.
The exhibit is in the Arnheim Gallery Mass Art, South Building, 621 Huntington Ave., Boston, from Dec. 4 through 15, Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday, closed.
Rescued from Gibbs before renovation
Ardito posted Friday, Sept. 1:
Rescued from the Gibbs building before renovation began this summer at the former home of the Arlington Center for the Arts, a 9-foot-high sculpture called “The All Star” by Maine artist Thomas Kennedy now stands proudly in the lobby of Ottoson Middle School.
“Hope you get a chance to see it,” Ardito wrote.
This news announcement was published Saturday, Sept. 2, 2017, and updated Jan. 11, 2018. To see updates, join the new AHS Google Plus Community called Arlington High School Visual Art Department News >>
