Art Students Visit NYC!

Post date: Dec 6, 2016 3:52:09 PM

WHS Art Department students from the Drawing 3 ECE, Pre-AP Art and AP Art classes spent last Friday morning visiting contemporary art galleries in Chelsea to Critically Analyze Artwork, the Highline Park to complete a Drawing assignment and the Museum of Art & Design to do a formal tour and workshop with their Artist-in- Residence around their current exhibit: Crochet Coral Reef: TOXIC SEAS which is celebrating its tenth anniversary, an ongoing project by sisters Margaret and Christine Wertheim and their Los Angeles–based organization, the Institute For Figuring. Artists worked with mathematicians to create the crenelated structures of the coral that had been previously too difficult to model due to them being biological manifestations of a kind of geometry called hyperbolic geometry. Mixing crocheted yarn with plastic trash, the work fuses mathematics, marine biology, feminist art practices, and craft to produce large-scale coralline landscapes, both beautiful and blighted. In addition to being exposed to careers in art by the professionally working artists, gallery administrators and museum educators they interacted with, students spent the day filling sketchbooks by visually recording the art, architecture and themes they experienced to use as a resource for future class projects.