AP Art: NYSATA Artist Mentoring Field Trip with Christine Chew Smith

Wednesday we traveled to Bridgehampton, NY for the NYSATA Artist Mentor series to visit artist Christine Chew Smith and create work with her in her art studio. After a studio tour, students from AP Art created collages, assemblages, and other artwork alongside the artist.

Art Honor Society: Field Trips and Mural Painting

Today in Art Honor Society we will finish planning our Fall field trips, work on some Mural Paintings, and set up our first gallery exhibit for the year.  Next week we will take part in the NYSATA Artist Mentor series and be taking our first field trip of the year to an artists studio where we will create collages with artist Christine Chew Smith in Bridgehampton, NY (below is an example of her work from recent exhibitions).

Art Honor Society: Congrats to our new inductees!

Our 2016 Art Honor Society Induction Ceremony was held this week so congrats to all our new inductees and award winners!  We have a few projects to finish and our spring field trip to the Hampton's is Tuesday.  We'll be visiting the Parrish Museum of Art as well as some local galleries and we'll be leaving first period so be ready to learn!

Art Honor Society: The Sketchbook Project

Today the National Art Honor Society will meet to review and prepare for our first field trip of the school year on Friday to the Brooklyn Museum and to plan the last pages of our collaborative Sketchbook Project.

Our Great Doubts and Massive Victories themed sketchbook is nearly complete so just a few more entries need to be finished to submit the book by the December 2015 break.  I've been sharing a few of the entries on social media and the response has been very positive, even from the Sketchbook Gallery itself.

Thanks @timneedles for sharing your students' Sketchbook Project! We can't wait to see the finished product! https://t.co/6MgiTATXUT

— Sketchbook Project (@sketchbkproject) November 17, 2015

Our field trip Friday marks the first time we'll visit the Brooklyn Museum but in addition to their terrific permanent collection we'll see exhibits from KAWS (image above) who attended SVA with me and two shows featuring Coney Island such as Stephen Powers installation (below).  We'll talk more about what to expect and see at the museum in our meeting!

Art and Media Art Honor Society- 2015 Induction

Today the Smithtown East chapter of the Art Honor Society and the Media Art Honor Society will hold their 2015 induction ceremony today in the little theater at 3:15 pm and we will also be presenting some of the senior art awards along with an pizza after party and gallery opening in room 161.

We had a great time on our field trip to the galleries in Chelsea last week so we'll also be putting together some of the photographs and video from the trip into our archives and talk about our favorite works..

Art and Media Art Honor Society field trip to MoMA & NYC

On Friday the Art and Media Art Honor Society had our annual field trip to NYC and this year we visited the Museum of Modern Art and the Henri Matisse's Cut Outs and Robert Gober's The Heart Is Not a Metaphor exhibitions along with the fantastic permanent collection.

The Matisse show was enlightening and it was great to see the pieces we've been studying up close along with background on how they were created but it was also very crowded!



Bring your pictures from the trip to the next honor society meeting and we'll post a few more up on the blog!

Art Honor Society field trip to the Museum of Modern Art

Today is our Art Honor Society field trip to the Museum of Modern Art in NYC.  We will be leaving promptly at 8am and returning this afternoon around 3-4pm.

Drawing: Illustration Friday- Silence

In Drawing class we are currently working on our Illustration Friday work with the theme of "Silence".  My example is above and if you want to take the extra step and use social media to post your work online here's a link to how it works.  The advantage to linking your work to the website to to get some real life feedback from professional illustrators and artists which although it might be intimidating at first, its really useful!

Take a look at the statement below from Illustration Friday which gives an idea of the spirit of the critique:

The Illustration Friday community is a supportive, friendly place to view artwork and meet other illustrators, doodlers and creative people online. We have participants from all countries, backgrounds and age groups. We ask that your illustration submissions be mindful of this. Please post nothing that you wouldn't want your mother to see.

If you need help with the posting process I'll be available today after school at during the Art Honor Society and Media Art Honor Society meetings where we'll be discussing: volunteering at the Hamptons Film Festival, Homecoming, NY Comic Con, Safe Halloween, and our fall field trip to MoMA.

Media Art Honor Society: Hamptons Film Festival

In the Art & Media Art Honor Society we will be discussing our upcoming volunteer opportunity at the Hampton's Film Festival and the fall field trip to NYC on October 24.  The trailer above for St. vincent starring Bill Murray is the opening film of this years festival.

Art Honor Society: Spring Field Trip to the Hamptons

The Art and Media Art Honor Society's annual spring field trip to the Hamptons was Friday and we had a great time visiting galleries and the Parrish Museum in Southampton despite the mediocre weather.  We had a chance to see art from notable Long Islanders such as Chuck Close, Dennis Oppenheim, Roy Lichtenstein, and a terrific exhibit of Jennifer Bartlett's work along with works from street artists such as: Banksy and Faile at Keszler Gallery and works by: Alex Katz and Ross Bleckner at Mark Humphrey Gallery.

 

 

Art Honor Society: Kevin Doria

Yesterday in our Art Honor Society meeting we were creating monoprints and we had a special guest Kevin Doria join us and participate.  Kevin is an alumni from Smithtown East's first AP Art class and he spoke about his current position as a photographer and graphic designer in New Mexico and about his college experiences at the Art Institute of Chicago.  Below are some of the prints Kevin created.  

Art Honor Society: The 2014 Whitney Biennial Field Trip

The Whitney Museum's Biennial is happening right now in New York City and we are going to learn about why the exhibition is important and get acquainted with some of the artists featured this year. 
This year 3 curators each oversee one floor: Stuart Comer (MoMA), Anthony Elms (ICA Philadelphia), and Michelle Grabner (SAIC, Chicago) and each chooses work they feel is important.
Sculptors Alma Allen and John Mason have work in the show along with video artist Darren Bader and fine artist Karl Haendel and looking at the variation in their work gives you an idea of how wide the scope of the show is. This Biennial will be the last to take place in the at 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street before the Museum moves downtown under the high line.  We'll talk today in the club about whether we want to visit the show on our next field trip to NYC.


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Art Honor Society Field Trip Reboot

If you haven't heard the news, yesterday the murals at 5 Pointz were all destroyed by one of the owners to end a controversy about trying to save the building vs. it being torn down so we will obviously no longer be visiting it on our field trip next week.  We will still be visiting the Metropolitan Museum (and possibly another short surprise spot but we are currently trying to work out the new details and timeline).  It is certainly a sad day for art, our club has visited the engaging spot for years and it's always been a terrific experience, below are some of the highlights from the past few years...

Art Honor Society: Chelsea Field Trip

The final Art & Media Art Honor Society Field Trip of the school year was Friday and it was a great to to visit the galleries in Chelsea!  We stopped in to see 8 different gallery exhibits, took a walk on the high line, and grabbed a great lunch at Chelsea Market.  Today we will have the Art Honor Society after school in the little theater and induct our 15 new members.

 

Brought my art students to #Chelsea to walk the @highlinenyc & see the @jrart & #JoseParla show @brycewolkowitz:vine.co/v/bEIHKqQLbrg
— Tim Needles (@timneedles) May 18, 2013

Media and Art Honor Society: Spring field trip

This Friday is our Media & Art Honor Society spring field trip and one of the show's we'll be seeing is JR's.  Above is a great video showing how he did the Times Square pasting last week.  Make sure you have you permission slip and check by tomorrow if you plan on joining us, it should be fun and informative!

Art Honor Society: Field Trip Winter 2012

This year's Media Art Honor Society Winter field trip will be to the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan and 5 Pointz Art Space in Brooklyn


Above is a clip from the work of the Quay Brothers, one of the featured exhibitions at MoMA, their animation is pretty amazing and inspirational. Below is a really interesting time-lapse film of one of the 5 Pointz pieces being painted, it should be a great trip!

Friday's visit to the LongHouse Reserve

Friday we will be traveling to East Hampton to visit Jack Lenor Larsen's LongHouse Reserve and tour its collections, gardens, and sculptures as well as creating work for their Student Annual. The field trip leaves at the beginning of second period so meet outside of Mr. Needles room right after first period ends. If you filled out forms for the trip and are attending make sure I have your emergency contact information and be sure to bring some supplies for creating work!

Welcome Back!

I hope everyone had a terrific vacation and holiday and are refreshed for the Spring! Remember the quarter ends this week and the AP Studio art test is right around the corner so we are going to pick up right where we left off with a guest coming into Wednesday's mandatory Art Honor Society meeting followed-up with our field trip out East to the Longhouse on Friday

Happy Birthday Sesame Street

Here's a clip of an artist we just looked at in class, Keith Haring, and his contribution to the storied children's television show- Happy Birthday Sesame Street!

Speaking of Jim Henson the Media Art Honor Society & the Art Honor Society will be visiting The Museum of The Moving Image, MOMA's PS1, and 5Pointz Graffiti Museum in Queens in December