The Beck Visual Art Department was so fortunate this past December to have a SmartARTS Printmaking Unit with Teaching Artist Sunny Mullarkey Studio !!!

We created gelli prints with carved relief stamps inspired by the art of Eduardo Bolioli and his “My Surreal Hawaiian Life” series. Each student then wrote an original haiku poem to put on their final artwork. All prints will be hung up on the main hall for the month of January.

The Beck Visual Art Department would like to say a special thank you to SmartARTS, The Metropolitan Arts Council, and Beck Academy Middle for their consistent and constant support of our program.

Adaptive Art is hard at work painting our new pots for the Art Garden

I just LOVE these Warm/Cool Colored Radial Design Paper Collages from 6th graders!

On Monday, the Beck Art Department was so incredibly lucky to have Béatrice Coron come and speak to my last two classes and “special edition” veteran Art Club students!

Ms. Coron is such an inspiration and such an awesome human! She was open to my classroom, fluid in her lessons, and so thoughtful in her presentations and teachings. Students created their own paper-cuts and were able to take goodie-bags of extra supplies to continue their works at home!

A HUGE thank you to Donna Shank-Major from the Fine Arts Center and Greenville County Schools’ ABC grants for making this opportunity available and possible!

7th and 8th grade artwork:

Adaptive Art: Silly Pumpkin Collages

A BIG "Thank You!" to the Barnes&Nobles in the Shops of Greenridge for supporting Beck International Academy in their spring book fair and for letting us display our "We are Beck: Fine Art Portraits."

“We are Beck: Fine Art Portraits”

Beck International Academy is proud to announce its spring exhibition “We are Beck: Fine Art Portraits” created during the Metropolitan Art Council’s SmartARTS unit with guest photographer Polly Gaillard. Photographs were taken by students in both Carlon Steller’s fall and spring art classes.

“This year’s SmartARTS unit has been an amazing experience for my students and school. Students learned how to turn a picture of a classmate into a work of art through the instruction of Polly Gaillard teaching the compositional strengths of a fine art portrait. Students excelled at using their devices to create beautiful and thoughtful portraits of their peers. The professional-looking portraits that were displayed in the fall are still the talk of the school. I am looking forward to everyone’s reaction to this show and our upcoming Annual Beck Art Show!” –Carlon Steller, Art Teacher

Save the Dates!

We had 2 place winners this year at the Greenville Country Middle School Juried Art Show!!!

6th grade: Lilly Marlin, 3rd place 6th Printmaking

7th grade: Mekhi Brown, Honorable Mention 7th Sculpture

Thank you to all the families who came out to the Roper Mountain Science Center last night for the reception--You rock!

Congratulations to the following students for having artwork in the Greenville County Middle School Juried Art Show:

Lillian Clark * Mariah Dunham * Kadie Coker * Hannah Kim * Rowan Mudge * MollyKate Bannister * Evelina Nigamatova * Lilly Marlin * Ellie Glenn * Arianna Wood * Katie Mueller * Kathleen Way * Ansley Martin Jamaica Brewster * Janae Winns * Cason McLeod * Mekhi Brown * Maywyn Haydamack * Nessa Kaciva * Haven Beam * Rachel Edwards * Molly Larkin * Maria Georgopoulos

Artwork is on display at the Roper Mountain Science Center from April 10^th-26^th.

AWESOME artwork is being created this semester at Beck International Academy! Check these out:

I am very proud to announce that I have been published! Below is my article in the art education publication called, Arts & Activities. You can also read it at: https://artsandactivities.com/eco-culture-totem-poles/

What makes a Fine Art Portrait?

Fine Art Photography differs from the everyday “snapshot” because of its thoughtful composition. The subjects are typically placed in a calm or non-distracting background to where the photographer can focus on capturing the person and not just a moment. Our SmartARTS guest photographer, Polly Gaillard, taught our art classes how to take a portrait worthy of a gallery setting. Each portrait was taken by a fellow student following Ms. Gaillard’s instructions with some taken by the artist herself!

Thoughtful questions:

What do you notice most about these photographs?

Is there one you particularly like? Why?

The Beck Academy Art Department continued its tradition again this year by participating in the Festival of Trees at the Downtown Hyatt with their tree, "Mondrian's Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer." The tree is inspired by the Minimalist artist Piet Mondrian. You can stop by the Hyatt to view all the trees.

Congratulations to the following students who will have artwork up for the next three months at the Greenville County Schools District Office:

Stoy Mullinax * Maywyn Haydamack * Janiya Posey *Mekhi Brown

Tanvi Shekar * Emma Gail Brown

Anna Carter *Katelyn Bergman

Grayson White

What an amazing first nine weeks!

Check out these art projects from all of Miss Steller's classes.

Our first Art Club of the year was a complete SUCCESS with over 40+ students attending! We created Silhouette Mixed Media artworks by using the bleeding tissue paper for the background and traced and watercolor painted silhouettes of each student's choice.

Wow--so awesome!