"IDENTITY" - Humanities + Art - Spring 2017
In art class, 10th graders studied the poster art of Shepard Fairey, a Charleston native, and uses his campaign posters as inspiration for their pop art paintings. Student had a photoshoot day, and used their self portraits photos as references for their painting. Their paintings incapsulated their past, present, and future - background representing where they or their family has come from, portrait representing their present selves, and below each added a powerful line from their poems created in Humanities Class signifying their hope for the future of them and the world.
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"Change" - Art & Humanities - Fall 2017
10th grade Students tell tales of volunteering experiences, fundraising and creating a public campaign for a cause they care about. In art class, students made molds of their own faces as a base for their clay was forms. Using various ceramic techniques, students hand-built, glazed and fired their "transformation" masks. Each mask depicts half of a self portrait and half of a design visually portraying their cause.