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Our senior class decided to add something new this year to our Phantom Times newspaper. We plan to highlight the fabulous artwork that our students produce, and we’re pretty excited to show off their talent.
For the unread letter collage, students write a letter to anyone they want or to themselves. The letter is not read by anyone. Collage techniques are used to then integrate the letter into a work of art inspired by the letter. Middle school students explored the concept of positive and negative space in these paper collages inspired by Japanese Notan.
Cayli Miles told me about her artwork for her unread letter collage, and the reason why she chose to make that art piece was because she wanted her artwork to stand out from the other art pieces. She included the word “Learn to grow” meaning to move on from past experiences even till this day with school and sports it still applies. The flowers also mean growing in life. I chose this artwork because it has a lot of meaning behind and its about moving on and not looking back.
Rem Chenevert told me about his artwork for his positive and negative space paper collage, The choices he made while creating that art piece was to represent all the places he and his family lived from ocean view to city lights to desert plains. He also created a symbol that represents his whole family. I chose this art piece for the same reasons he made it for: ocean views to city lights to desert plains.
Our first piece was drawn and painted by one of our seniors Allana Briones. It is a color wheel into a dreamcatcher with a Native background. This artwork was completed in last years art class with Ms. Zanos.
Allana Briones' assignment was to create a color wheel, and she did that by drawing a dream catcher and adding the colors into it. The color wheel was made last year. She wanted to be creative and incorporate a dreamcatcher into her painting so she decided to make it the color wheel, but when she was done with her dreamcatcher. She and Mrs. Zanos thought the back round was to plain. So Allana drew a Native background to make the dreamcatcher pop out.
(September, 2019, by Melakai Longhoma)The Middle School Artist of the month we are displaying is Emma Rivera’s “OneLove,” which was done in February for Black Heritage Month. According to Mrs. Zanos, “Students were to choose an influential African -American person to be featured in a Kehinde Wiley inspired artwork. They printed a photo, glued it down and then applied the patterns both in front of and behind their subject.” Ms. Rivera said Bob Marley was one of her favorite music artists and wanted to use him for her art project. She also used “One Love” in her art project which was from one of Bob Marley’s albums. The patterns she used was just for fun, trying to be creative with her artwork.
(September, 2019, by Cordell Bob)
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