Gallery of Student Work |
In this virtual gallery, you will find examples of student work past and present. It is roughly chronological, with the newest projects toward the top. Please click on the artwork to view an album of images, in which you may leave feedback for specific works.
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AP ART HISTORY: Tableau Vivant (2016)
These art history students worked in groups to create a tableau vivant (French for "living picture") of a work they studied earlier in the year. Each tableau vivant was the centerpiece of a gallery display that included recreated works in a similar theme and an artist statement
STUDIO ART: Confronting Stereotype (2015)
What stereotypes do you encounter in your day-to-day life? Which stereotypes are most problematic? Which ones would you like to do away with completely? Students in Studio Art discussed these questions and drew from their own personal experiences to create a series of linoleum prints that try to confront and even subvert stereotypes. They looked at the artwork of contemporary artists Michael Ray Charles and Barbara Kruger, who confront stereotypes about race and gender in challenging ways. They then used appropriated imagery (pictures taken from another source) to raise questions about stereotypes and how they are perpetuated.
STUDIO ART: NCMA Artists In Process (2015)
The works in this section were created as part of a blended-learning collaboration through the North Carolina Museum of Art. Students in a second-level visual art class called Studio Art collaborated with students at a school in Swain County, NC, on the far western end of the state. They looked at artworks and had online discussions, and met face to face at the museum in March. Inspired by works in the museum collection, these artists produced work according to three different themes: Identity, Storytelling, and Place. Which theme do you think each work falls under? What is the artist trying to question or communicate in this work?
HONORS VISUAL ART III & IV - Bad Art! (2014)
Students in Honors Visual Art III & IV created and curated a show of deliberately bad art, which they have titled "Through A Clown's Eyes". It is subdivided into 4 categories: Gesture, The Primitive, Minimalism, and Weird.
HONORS VISUAL ART III - Exploring Memory (2014)
In this series, artists look at the gaps between memories to make mixed media works using found objects, pen and ink, and other materials.
HONORS VISUAL ART III & IV - Works That Flummox (2013)
Spend a little time with some of these artworks, and you will realize things are not what they seem. In this series called “Works That Flummox”, students in Watson’s Honors Visual Art III & IV created a quick, simple work designed to confuse & perplex (“flummox”) the viewer. They do this in different ways – some use mystery, others use humor, and some use complete nonsense! How would you interpret some of these works?
STUDIO ART - Borders and Boundaries (2013)
What happens when different populations occupy the same space? These students examined the role that culture, identity and geography play in conflict, and produced a series of collaborative artworks using nontraditional media in public spaces. This work attempted to raise questions and spark a dialog with the viewer. These works could be found in unusual places all around the school.
CHHS TASK (Aug 26, 2011)
Created by artist Oliver Herring, TASK is a collaborative and improvisational art event that requires only some art supplies, a space, and some willing participants. The participants write instructions to be carried out by another artist on a slip of paper and place it in the TASK box. Another participant pulls a TASK out of the box, and is obligated to complete it in any creative way they see fit. Once the TASK is completed, the artist places the slip of paper in the "Completed Task" box and writes a new TASK for the next artist. And so it goes... This TASK event took place on the second day of school and features every visual art student, rotating through the bell schedule (approximately 30 students at a time).
AP ART HISTORY - Spring Artmaking Project (2011)
These art history students were asked to select an artwork from the Renaissance, Baroque or Neoclassical eras, and then either recreate the work in the same medium (painting, sculpture, etc) or as a Tableau Vivant ("living picture"). Most students chose the latter, with impressive results!
STUDIO ART - Home Away From Home (2011)
For this project, students thought about the places they consider home. They talked about what “home” means to them, and they selected personal objects that represent these ideas. They next thought about the spaces at school that feel like home to them. They photographed their object in these spaces and used that image as the basis for the drawings you see here.
DRAWING AND PAINTING - Broken Things (2011)
What stories are told by the old and worn-out things we hang on to? Why are certain objects precious, and what exactly is precious about them? is it the thing itself, or the memories surrounding it? For this introductory project, Drawing and Painting students brought in objects that are broken or that have visible signs of wear and tear, and they created black and white charcoal drawings of the objects, paying special attention to the objects' flaws and blemishes. Going deeper into the memories associated with these objects, the students then created "broken drawings", which are open-ended and experimental reworkings of older drawings. They cut up, tore, folded, drew over and otherwise manipulated these drawings to create a sort of "remix" of personal memories.
HONORS VISUAL ART III - Paradox Drawings (2010)
When presented with problems, we look for solutions. When faced with contradictory ideas, we try to reason out which idea is correct. But what happens when you let contradictions coexist, and when you let problems lead to more problems? That was our task for this series of mixed-media "drawings". To select a paradoxical idea and investigate it in a mixed-media work that utilizes paradoxical processes: concealing and revealing, traditional and nontraditional mark making, found surfaces and prepared surfaces. To further complicate the issue, students worked in pairs and drew from randomly chosen strategy cards midway through the project.
To see what the artists discovered in this process, be sure to read the artist statements after each work.
To see what the artists discovered in this process, be sure to read the artist statements after each work.
STUDIO ART - Home Away From Home (2010)
For this project, students thought about the places they consider home. They talked about what “home” means to them, and they selected personal objects that represent these ideas. They next thought about the spaces at school that feel like home to them. They photographed their object in these spaces and used that image as the basis for the drawings you see here.
STUDIO ART - Veiled Self Portraits (2009)
In the paintings below, students talked about the social function of viels, and were asked to create a self portrait in which they concealed part of their faces in a way that revealed something more about their identity. Veils here inlcude the literal veil of various face-coverings to the conceptual veils of gender identity and online personas.