The Burlington Education Foundation generously donated funding for this artist residency. 

BPS has a fantastic tool to help us educators plan our lessons and respect students cultural and religious holidays.

Here is the link to the calendar:

BPS Cultural Calendar

When an assignment is completed you will need to take a high quality photograph of your artwork. 
Here are some tips:

• Use the best camera you have (iPad, phone or teacher's camera)
• The artwork should be neat, not folded or damaged
• Hang the art on a flat wall or place on an easel
• Set up art with light that is consistent and equal over the entire work of art (no shadows)
• Make sure that your camera is parallel to the image
• Take more than one photo and compare them
• Check you pictures and select the most accurate one
• Crop and straighten your work in photo editing app

Turn In the Photograph 

• save the image to your google drive folder for this class (create one if you have not already)
• name the file with the name of the assignment
• place the picture into your drive folder. DO NOT KEEP IN YOUR CAMERA ROLL
• go to google classroom and turn in your assignment

Photograph before edits- DO NOT TURN IN A PHOTOGRAPH LIKE THIS!

High Quality Photograph of artwork

What happens when you put middle school students together to create art? You have a fantastic all day art making blast! 

These students created tons of art during our art camp. They explored different media and had fun playing. We even had a few competitions creating the tallest hat and the tallest tower. 

This was a very special group of students that we can't wait to have in high school someday! It was wonderful to see so many friendships develop through out the camp days. 
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Special thanks to our two camp counselors Sydney and Anthony!

Students in Creative Computer Art created a wide array of expressive works of art. Students used Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator to make their masterpieces!

Multicultural Club purchased 15 Bren Bataclan paintings and then gave away each one!

They spread kindness by gifting 5 paintings to faculty that have has a positive impact on them and then placed free paintings around the school for students to pick up.

Each giveaway painting included this sign with a "Call to Action"

"Spread kindness wherever you go! Smile at a random person.
Say hello. Offer a kind word". 

The grade 9 Design students explored many materials and concepts this year. Here are a few of their projects created this year. 

The 13th Annual Portfolio Exhibition
Students of the Portfolio and AP Studio Art classes
BHS Lower Library
School-day reception: Wednesday, May 22, 8:43 - 9:27 am (Period 7)
Evening reception: Wednesday, May 22, 6:00 - 7:30 pm

Our Portfolio and AP Studio Art students will be holding their reception for the 13th Annual Portfolio Exhibition this Wednesday, from 6:00 - 7:30 PM. That same morning they'll also be hosting a daytime reception for all faculty and for the classes of their own teachers.

The exhibiting students are:
Gati Aher
Lindsay Baxter
Nicole Benjamin
Kevin Buxton
Martello Cesar
Michela Giordano
Erin Kerr
Josh MacLeod
Owen Magnuson
Alex Markarian
Sophie Quinn
Sarah Schissler
Naaz Thotathil
Ryan Tortorici
Hailey Wood

The Portfolio Exhibition differs from Burlington High’s other annual Art Exhibition (in March) in that it's student-organized. Students in the advanced art classes self-select the work to be displayed, they organize their own personal exhibit spaces, and they'll be on hand to discuss the bodies of work they have developed over the past year or more. One long-term effort from each Portfolio student will be on display:  a Concentration, a series of artworks focused on a particular theme or method, with challenges and objectives set by the student. Visitors will be able to speak to the artists about their goals and their processes.

Art Club had a wonderful fundraiser! The students entered a raffle to win the prize of two tickets to Happy Place.

Special thanks to Art Department Interns Matt Collina and Cynara Ferraro for all the great work that they did running the fundraiser and to Moxie for the ticket donation!