National Art Honor Society- Rube Goldberg Machine Contest

 
The National Art Honor Society will begin work on our 2021 Rube Goldberg Machine for this year's contest which requires us to shake and pour a box of nerds as the last step in out machine. We'll finish our registration for the team and watch some inspirational examples of Rube Goldberg machines such as the one OKgo created below.

National Art Honor Society: Video Poems

 

In today's National Art Honor Society meeting I'll be doing a short 20 minute workshop on creating creative, original Video Poems as a preview of Playfest 2021 this weekend. We will all create our own video poems ahead of National Poetry Month this spring when we will be sharing them.  The project which is included in my book STEAM Power is elastic and can be created with a variety of digital and traditional tools.

National Art Honor Society- Holiday Party

Today in National Art Honor Society and it's our last meeting of 2019 so we will celebrate with our annual Holiday Party complete with pizza and art and then some more pizza and a bit more art.
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National Art Honor Society- Artist Trading Cards

 This week in National Art Honor Society we will be creating Artist Trading Cards to trade with AP Art and National Art Honor Society Students in Idaho and Wisconsin.  The cards should be 2.5" x 3.5" and the subject matter and medium is up to you!

 Here's a few examples of ATCs from the past few years, we will also be taking a photo with our final Wyland painting which was submitted last week and working on creating homemade holiday cards for our Adopt a Family program!

National Art Honor Society- Artist Trading Cards

National Art Honor Society- Handmade Holiday Cards

In National Art Honor Society we will be creating 20 handmade holiday cards for our local Adopt-A-Family program this week leading up to Thanksgiving and completing our Wyland mural painting as well as the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards which are both due on December 3.

National Art Honor Society: Spooky Hallways

In National Art Honor Society this week we will be preparing for Spooky Hallways tomorrow by creating signs, drawing areas, backgrounds, collecting candy and toys.  The program runs tomorrow from 3:30-6:30 and we'll be in front of the library.

The National Art Honor Society will be participating in the Spooky Hallways #Halloween event this Friday, #NAHS will be running an #AugmentedReality dance & photo booth with face painting and candy! pic.twitter.com/TnRRGHrYvb

— Tim Needles (@timneedles) October 23, 2019

National Art Honor Society

We will be celebrating spirit week this week by working on our Wyland mural, Spooky Hallways, and T-shirt designs as well as voting for the Media Art Honor Society president and VP.

National Art Honor Society

Today the National Art Honor Society will meet to vote on our new president and organize out field trips, induction, and upcoming art shows including the NAHS juried show at NAEA headquarters.  We are discussing going to see the new MOMA Museum in NYC as well as seeing the highline and the new Kusama gallery exhibit.

National Art Honor Society: Field Trip to The Metropolitan Museum of Art,

Tomorrow is our National Art Honor Society Winter Field Trip to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.  We will  be leaving at 8am via coach bus and we will begin our visit by viewing the Michelangelo exhibit: Divine Draftsman and Designer and David Hockney followed by lunch at The Cafeteria and a visit to the permanent collection then we'll begin our trip home at 1pm.

Art Honor Society: NAHS News

Our Smithtown HS East Chapter of the National Art Honor Society was featured in the recent national edition of NAHS News.

There was a story on our mural collaboration with artist Jon Burgerman and the student art from members Luke and Kayla.

Welcome to the 2014-2015 school year!

Welcome to a new school year!  Today in class we'll be going over some of the basic and discuss the expectation for each class and below are links to a few of the contests and opportunities we will be talking about:

National Art & Media Art Honor Societies- the art club is open to all students enrolled and meets Wednesdays after school in room 161.  We do art workshops, alumni talks, volunteer at local events such as the Hampton's Film Festival, go on art related field trips, arrange the annual haunted house, work with outside charity organisations, arrange art shows, and work on student driven extra-curricular projects.

Google for Education- We'll be taking advantage of Google's new classroom technologies to share information and collaborate in the classroom.

The Japan Society's Going Global program- Classes will collaborate on lessons virtually with students from Japan, the US, and Pakistan on projects throughout the year.  There is also a student exchange program which students may enroll in.

Art Honor Society: Holiday Party and members show

Yesterday the National Art Honor Society had their annual holiday party and assembled our members show which will open when we return from break and be up for two weeks.

Welcome Back

Welcome back! I hope everyone had a terrific break and enjoyed the holiday!  Our Art & Media Art Honor Society trip to the Metropolitan Museum was a great success and now we are fully into the holiday season.  Below is a breakdown of what each of the classes is working on right now as a reminder so take a look in case you forgot!


Media Art: Hand drawn animation (50 cards due Wednesday)

Studio Art: Type Poster Design (Completed Poster due Wednesday)

Photography: 3 Color and 3 Black and White Studio Portraits (due Today)

AP Art: The Scholastic Prize (critique today, final due Wednesday)


Also the art and media art honor society will be putting together our annual gallery show so make sure to bring work in Wednesday to show!!

Art and Media Art Honor Society Meeting

The first meeting of the Art Honor Society and the Media Art Honor Society will be this today after school in Mr. Needles room 161 at 2pm.  We will be discussing some of the events that we'll be participating in this year, notably:

• Volunteering at the Hampton's Film Festival on October 6-7
• Building our Safe Halloween "Haunted Museum"
• Our fall field trip to New York City and our spring trip to the Hamptons
• Our ongoing "Going Global" project with the Japan Society
• Our college and alumni visits as well as SKYPE in the classroom
• The MSG Varsity program and website

All are welcome, our future meeting dates will be on Wednesdays and Thursdays, see you then!

The 2012 National Art Honor Society Induction

This afternoon we held our National Art Honor Society induction and group art exhibit so congradulations to all our new inductees and thanks again to Jeri Anne who ran the ceremony and to all our officers as well as everyone who helped make this year such a big success!  Also congradulations to all of our AP Art undergrads who put together a terrific art show which will be on display till school is out next week!