AP Upload - Quality - AP Art Showcase

Hello crazy art week. 

What needs to be done before Thursday:

1. prepping your work for the showcase.  see handout
2. picking out your quality section - five actual works that will be sent for the AP test - 18 x 24 or smaller  (cannot be sold at the showcase.)
3. photographers - if you haven't done so already......  you need to print out your photos.
4. Upload, Upload, Upload  https://apstudio.ets.org/apstudioart/
5. bring all supplies that you have 'borrowed' from the school

I think that's enough!  Oh wait, don't forget to vote for the vans.  If you have, try and get someone else too!

We are a FINALIST! Your vote is needed!!!!

Please take the time to vote this weekend for your classmates.  Lakeridge High School is a finalist in our region, Northwest. 

Wahoooooo!!!!! Go here to cast your vote:  http://www.vans.com/customculture/

Put this on your Facebook page and earn extra credit!!!  Yes, it's true. 

Homestretch

We are almost there. The last critique of the year will be on Friday the 27th! Crazy. Once we get our portfolios together and upload them to AP we are heading off into a new direction.

This is the artist that we will be looking at for the Scholastic Art Magazine project. His name is Kehinde Wiley. We will be creating a collage, I'm still toying with the idea of creating the collage in Adobe Photoshop. We will definitely be going on some sort of field trip, most likely to downtown Portland to get some source material.

http://www.kehindewiley.com/Kalkidan_Mashasha.html

The Columbus Museum of Art, which hosted an exhibition of his work in 2007, describes his work with the following: "Kehinde Wiley has gained recent acclaim for his heroic portraits which address the image and status of young African-American men in contemporary culture."

Napoleon Leading the Army Over the Alps, 2005

Wiley’s paintings often blur the boundaries between traditional and contemporary modes of representation. Rendered in a realistic mode–while making references to specific Old Master paintings–Wiley creates a fusion of period styles, ranging from French Rococo, Islamic architecture and West African textile design to urban hip hop and the "Sea Foam Green" of a Martha Stewart Interiors color swatch.

Vans

A month ago I signed the Lakeridge High School art department up for a contest that Vans puts on. Essentially, you are sent four pairs of shoes from the company and then you transform them. Each shoe has a theme, this year we were required to have one shoe for each of the following:

Action Sports, Art, Music and Local Flavor.

I asked Katey Jacobsen, Kelly Sosa, Anna Engstrom and Nicholai Busch to participate. This is what they came up with! We have to wait a month to see if we are finalist in our region. If we are, we will need to rally the Pacers and start voting!!!!! Cross your fingers.

Which pair do you like the best?

Scheduling

I feel like we all keep saying this but... this year is going by super fast. Mr. Helle and I are having a rough go finding a date that works for the majority of the AP students for some kind of an art show. Any suggestions? The district calender is packed and you all are very busy little munchkins.

Maybe we all can think out of the box and come up with a new and exciting idea for an AP showcase? I'm sure you have nothing else better to think about...hee hee.

This week is the last official NEW art critique. We are going to have a visitor that day. A teacher in training. She is excited to see how we do things in the LHS art room. One piece is due on Thursday the 12th. The next critique will be a rework of an old piece. That critique will be later in the month.

Note: If you don't have a piece to work on in class you can always be photographing your work or adjusting it in Adobe or even uploading the work to the AP site. We all need to be having conversations about what pieces you will be using for your Quality section. Lots to do. Always!

BTW, I know the picture of the dog is random. I couldn't resist.