Arts
Student artists deserve acknowledgment for their work
Students in art classes want to be seen for the work they do
By Mia Sartin
February 28 2023Students in art classes want to be seen by the work they do. They're proud of the work they've done and deserve acknowledgement for the work they've done with different art styles to express themselves
Student artists have many projects throughout the semester that are different art styles and try new things some students have not been able to do before. Projects from still life, impression, collages and painting. All of these projects create a new world kids are able to open up and be creative in. Different types of art show the teacher what you're able to do and what you're good at. People around the school would like to see what art classes have to offer and what projects are happening in the classes currently.
Nicole Merrell, an Art teacher at Wade Hampton high school said, “In class we are working from a 2 point perspective and looking at drawing a 3 dimensional city seen from a 2 point perspective. It's a new project that we haven't done last semester and is a new style we are learning in art.”
Students in the class are now seeing new ways to express a new art style and ways to use 2 point perspectives in a 3 dimensional city.
Freshman Beatrice Johnson said, “I like drawing people, so this new project is really making me think outside of my comfort zone and using this new architect style is new and is fun to work with.”
Students are learning to start using an architect style to do their project and are seeming to like the new art style as it is opening to new and different ideas.
Merrell said, “Claire Wilson, a student in our class, just started the 2 point perspective and is going far and beyond. She is drawing Paris and she has intricate windows, an amazing archway with stone details around the arch way and you can see into the building and I'm so amazed by her work and she takes the challenge and runs with it and I'm really impressed.”
This shows that students are taking this new art style and putting in their own style and making their art more detailed and going far and beyond to express a new style in art they might have never expressed before.
Sophomore Said Monge said, “We recently did a project with the Black Lives Matter movement and it was a project where you had to put out a figure in our life in the Black Lives Matter movement and create almost like a collage with different newspaper and magazines cutouts in the background of the project. This project is different and fun to do because everyone's project comes out different with different cutouts in the background.”
The Black Lives Matter movement project lets students acknowledge figures in the movement and different ways to express their spotlight and create a project where they can express different ways to show off their empowerful figure.
Merrell said, “My favorite projects to do with students are the Where's Waldo Project because I really get to see students and their favorite things. It's a project where students hide Waldo in different objects that describe them, and I love seeing students and it's almost a way to connect to my students. I also love painting with my students because it's amazing to see how some students work with paint better and how some students love painting more than other projects we've been doing in class.”
Students with these new projects are able to show different aspects of themselves and show what they love and like in a college with a fun way to do it. Trying to find a Waldo in a collage with all different objects that you love. Painting for students creates new ways to show how they might be better with painting. Painting with different colors, mixing colors to make different tints and shades and painting in smooth different colors to make art you love can show a teacher what art style fits best for you.
Johnson said, “I really enjoy art class and love the atmosphere, it's a really calm and quiet environment to work in and I'm really excited about new projects coming in the semester and wondering what's next for our projects coming up.
Projects in art class let the teacher see you as a person and how different art styles connect to you and how to express yourself. With these different art styles it lets students find new ways community there art styles to others. Finding if they like painting, drawing, article or colleges really bring the art class together in the art they do together.
Outstanding: Third Best Received
The Chorus Field Trip
Maggie Billingsley
March 1, 2023This trip was more than worth it, according to the people who took it. 38 students attended and they visited Universal Studios’ theme park, attended Wicked on the Floridian Broadway, visited the Kennedy Space Center, and then the Barbershop Harmony Society’s Midwinter Concert. Madison Thomas, a 10th-grade Soprano told the Herald that the students won an Outstanding, which is just below the best grade, Superior, during their competition. They were ranked third overall, being 0.3 points away from the Superior title.
“We stayed in Orlando Tuesday and Wednesday night. Thursday morning we departed for Daytona Beach where we stayed until our return drive on Sunday,” Amy Moyer, choral director at Wade Hampton said. The drive to Florida was about eight and a half hours; seventeen there and back. “We performed at the Peabody Auditorium as part of the Midwinter Convention that was based at the Hilton Daytona Beach Oceanfront Resort (where we stayed during our time in Daytona Beach,” Moyer said in an email with the Hampton Herald.
Davis Levingston, 12th grade bass, told us the songs that they sang. “We sang a song called One Heartbeat, This is Why I Sing, and The World Is Way.” He rated the trip a solid 8.
All to say, the choral field trip, despite being over 30,000 dollars, was worth it.
New Drama Club to Produce Student Written and Directed Play
The Drama Club’s first annual Spring production will highlight one of WHHS’s student playwrights
By Zinnia Robertson
February 10, 2023Art Students Paint Mural in the First Floor Long Hallway
The new mural aims to reflect WHHS’s diverse students and environment
By Zinnia Robertson
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