Festival of Trees

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Festival of Trees:

This past December,the artwork of 31 Sculpture students was on display as part of the 42nd Annual Festival of Trees and Traditions at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art.  As part of the event, schools, organizations and artists created and donated trees to be put on display and sold as an important fundraiser for the museum.  Each of the Sculpture students at BHS created an animal sculpture using paper and wire to hang on the tree.  These animals were inspired by the work of American sculptor Alexander Calder.  The tree was on display December 4th-13th.

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2016 Connecticut Regional Scholastic Art Awards Competition!

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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 17thFebruary 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!

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Art Around Town

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.

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Here’s some of Mrs. Miller’s students’ work  at Kensington Garden Center, this semester! You can find them on Chamberlain Highway.

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Stephanie Sanders
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Suburban Ski and Bike on Webster Square Road also has some of Mrs. Miller’s students’ work.

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Robert McKeon
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Bill’s Farmington Avenue Pizza hosts Ms. Galasso’s student work.

Here are some surreal artworks created in Adobe Photoshop by Patricia Kiniry and Olivia Wezdenko from Digital Art I.

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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.

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