We are very excited to announce that Rebecca Soderburg has been awarded an Honorable Mention in at the 2016 Regional Connecticut Scholastic Art Awards! Rebecca is one of Mrs. DeSorbo’s Pottery I students this year!
The Connecticut Regional Scholastic Art Awards Program is a non-profit, all volunteer activity which is sponsored by the Connecticut Art Education Association. This program is a high quality level, professionally juried event which recognizes only the best CT student art work. All CT art students in public, parochial and private schools are encouraged to participate and submit high quality art work. Student artwork is juried by professional artists and university art faculty and is selected on merit for inclusion in a state-wide art exhibition held at the Hartford Art School. Beyond the honor of being selected for this high quality exhibit, students may be awarded Gold or Silver keys and Honorable Mention Awards.
Rebecca’s artwork will be on display January 17th – February 5th at Silpe Gallery, Hartford Art School on the University of Hartford campus. The gallery is open Monday through Friday from 10 am to 4 pm and weekends from 12 pm to 4 pm.
Please join us in congratulating Rebecca on her achievement!
For the last two years, Berlin High School has been participating in a K-12 Districtwide initiative called “Art Around Town”. Local businesses have donated space at their locations to host local student work. These are rotating galleries that change approximately every academic quarter. We invite you to go out and support these businesses and see the artwork our students are creating!
Here are some photos from Fall 2015:
The Creative Clay Spot on Farmington Ave just opened their space to us! Here is Ben Labadia’s Coil Pot titled “Howling Moon”. Ben was one of Mrs. DeSorbo’s Pottery I students this Fall.
Here’s some of Mrs. Miller’s students’ work at Kensington Garden Center, this semester! You can find them on Chamberlain Highway.
Patricia Kiniry
Stephanie Sanders
Suburban Ski and Bike on Webster Square Road also has some of Mrs. Miller’s students’ work.
Here are some surreal artworks created in Adobe Photoshop by Patricia Kiniry and Olivia Wezdenko from Digital Art I.
Here is a piece that was created at the very end of Digital Art II last Spring and shown at Bill’s Pizza at the beginning of the semester. It was a group project where each team had to create a product and a package that would hold that product. Here is the Toaster Poppers Bread Box created by Andrew Burr, Michael Formica and Alex Glabau. This was created in Adobe Illustrator.
Anyone who has ever endured construction at their home knows, the anticipation for the final result, and exhaustion over the grind of construction can pay its toll on the people living through it. The Color My World Project is a mural on the 148’ long, 8’7” high temporary wall of the main corridor entering the building on the lower level of Berlin High School. The length of the wall inspired Mrs. Miller, one of BHS’s Art Teachers, to take advantage of a teachable moment while thinking of Wall Drawing 999 by the Hartford, Connecticut born American artist,
Sol LeWitt, who recently passed in 2007. The goal was to elevate the spirit with something beautiful to look at and something fun and creative to talk about.
Our wall was primed with a color called Daydream on Saturday morning, 10-31-2015, in Banksy style for the tada effect that many students and staff noticed on the following Monday morning. The students who participated in the priming transformation included: Haley Cox, Matthew Formicola and Erin Scalora.
The AP Studio Art students: Nathaniel Baretta, Zachary Burkarth, Jacob Harris, Kaileen Langlois, Samantha Giardina, Daniel Perez, and Jason Szalaty had the pleasure of sketching out the line work during the day, while various art students from Mrs. Miller’s Art classes volunteered to paint in the lines with Magic Magenta paint from our local Pittsburgh Paint Shop. The instructions given to the students, included that all lines needed to be organic, continuous, minimal cross overs and altered in thickness. This type of conceptual art is not unlike how LeWitt himself worked. As a matter of fact, LeWitt conceptual style was often compared to that of an architect’s.
Saturday, November 7th – – The students/parents who showed up for the event, include in no particular order: Jacob Harris, Nathaniel Baretta, Daniel Perez, Abbie Wendeheck, Hannah Schulz, Gabe Dombrowski, Zoey Salgado, Emily Mazzotta, Divya Patel, Annie Sznaj, Mrs. Sznaj, Annalise Gormley, Erin Scalora, and Mrs. Scalora.
Saturday, December 5th – Matthew Formicola, Emily Mazzotta, Erin Scalora, Hannah Schulz
As the mural is up for limited viewing that only the students of 2015-2016 will be able to experience, photos of the mural is encouraged to memorialize this special event. The wall will be coming down soon to celebrate yet another section of our building being turned back over to us and in so doing, will have completed it’s goal.
