3rd Annual BHS Faculty Art Show

Faculty Art Show 2014
The Berlin High School Art Department held it’s 3rd Annual Faculty Art Show in the Community Room at Berlin-Peck Memorial Library. The Show was on view from September 6-12th, with the opening reception from 6:00-7:30pm on Thursday, September 11th.

Click Here for the Gallery of Photos

Click Here for a Video of Mr. Wolfe’s band.

Students, Parents, Faculty and members of the community saw a variety of artworks on display: Photography, Paintings, Sculptures, Knitted Works, T-Shirt Design, Pottery, Poetry, Nantucket Baskets, and Digital Art. Mr. Wolfe’s band did a wonderful bluesey, acoustic set for the night.

The BHS Faculty Art Show is an event that celebrates the Arts in Berlin in conjunction with National Arts in Education Week.

For more information on National Arts in Education Week

Past Show Galleries
BHS Faculty Art Show 2013
BHS Faculty Art Show 2012

Berlin Public Schools K-12 Districtwide Art Show

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Drawing II students create gesture drawings of students at the art show.

Berlin Public School’s K-12 Districtwide Art Show was held
on April 22, 2014 at the New Britain Museum of Art

Each year a select body of work is chosen from each school in the district representing grade levels kindergarten through twelfth grade.

For the second year in a row, Mrs. Miller’s Drawing II students created gesture drawings of students and their family members at the show, as well as offered a table where students could create and share Artist Trading Cards.

For Photos of the exhibit click here

 

Youth Art Month at the AP Studio Art Show

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Berlin High School is very excited to present this year’s AP Studio Art students.  As such, students can focus their work in three different strands, Drawing/Painting, 2-D Design, and 3-D Design. As March is Youth Art Month, There will be an exclusive Berlin High School AP Studio Art show at the Sandman Gallery & Frame Shoppe located on 14 West Main Street, Meriden. The opening will be on Friday, March 7th from 6:30-8:30 and will run through to Saturday, March 29th for viewing. The gallery hours are Tuesday to Friday from 10am – 6pm and Saturday, 10am – 3pm.  Please come out to support your homegrown artists.

Show photos can be found here.

Short Bios:

Bonnie Anderson – Bonnie is a senior at BHS who’s favorite medium is pencil and pen.  She enjoys employing mark-making techniques in her work.

Nicholas Cappa – A senior at BHS is going out of his comfort zone of pencil and has been experimenting with soft pastels and Microns.  He prefers to work with pencil, Microns, soft pastels and charcoal.  His favorite personal work is a pointillism piece done with Microns.

Briana Gorneault – Briana is a junior in the AP Studio Art course focused on the drawing strand.  She discovered her artistic ability her sophomore year and plans on going to college for Art in the future.  Briana’s favorite mediums are pencil and pen/ink.

Kelsey Sena – Kelsey is currently a senior at Berlin High School.  Her favorite medium is digital photography.  She plans to attend Hartford Art School this fall as a Graphic Design major.

Courtney Silvia – Courtney is a senior at BHS.  She plans on focusing on the Arts in school next fall.  She enjoys working with photorealism, but is open to experimenting with new techniques.

Jamie Wilkinson – Jamie is a senior at BHS.  She is in the drawing strand and has earned 3 college credits over the summer at Montserrat College of Art.  She is going to CCSU for Art Education in the fall.