MS CHANG'S ART CLASSES

Cultural Calendar of Observances

10/1/2019

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

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Photographing your Art and Turning it In

9/24/2019

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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

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BEF Funds Guest Artist Milisa Galazzi

9/4/2019

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Asemic Journey
Artist Reception
September 12, 2019
6-8pm in the Cambridge Street Gallery
Artist talk on September 25, 2019

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

ARTIST BIO - Milisa Galazzi
Artist, Milisa Galazzi, is best known for her three dimensional hand sewn shadow drawings, her printed and drawn works on paper, and her richly layered abstract paintings all of which explore the very nature of being human. Her work is held in private international collections as well as public collections in the United States such as Women and Infants Hospital and the Women's Medicine Collaborative in Rhode Island. She exhibits nationally in solo and group shows in both galleries and museums. Galazzi presents talks at national and international conferences such as the International Encaustic Conference and the National Art Education Association Conference in New York City and teaches classes at universities such as Clark and Yeshiva. Her artwork has been featured and reviewed in Surface Design, FiberArts and ArtScope magazines as well as in books such as, "Contemporary Cape Cod Artist: On Abstraction," and "Paper + Wax, Techniques in Handmade Paper and Encaustic” as wells as, "Encaustic Art in the Twenty First Century." Galazzi was 'boat schooled' as a child while she and her family traveled and lived aboard their thirty-one foot trimaran sail boat hand built by her father. She received an MA with Honors from the Rhode Island School of Design were she exhaustively researched the educational effectiveness of community-based art education settings and her findings are published by Harvard University Graduate School of Education, Project Zero Press, 1999. In addition, Galazzi holds a BA from Brown University where she studied Studio Art with minors in Women’s Studies and Cultural Anthropology. She attended and graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover. Her broad education directly informs the content of her art making. Galazzi works full time in her studio in Providence, Rhode Island.

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Fantastic Middle School Art Camp 2019

7/29/2019

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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.

Special thanks to our two camp counselors Sydney and Anthony!

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Creative Computer Art Student Work 2019

6/18/2019

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

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Multicultural Club Students Spread Kindness

6/6/2019

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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".

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Design Student Gallery 2019

6/6/2019

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

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The 13th Annual Portfolio Exhibition Students of the Portfolio and AP Studio Art classes

5/21/2019

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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.

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Art Club Runs Successful Fundraiser Giving Away Tickets to the Happy Place

5/8/2019

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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!

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Five Burlington Teams Compete in the Tenacity Challenge 2019

5/2/2019

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The Tenacity Challenge 2019 took place on Saturday, April 27.

The Latino and African American Tenacity Challenge is an annual academic scholarship competition for teams of Latino and African-American students from urban and suburban high schools across Massachusetts

The students enjoyed this year's theme: The Social Significance of Hip Hop, Rap and Spoken Word.

In preparation for the competition students heard from several guest speakers, including a spoken word artist and poet Reggie Gibson, and a university professor, Austin Ashe.

In addition to developing an argument about the influence of hip hop and spoken word, each team has developed a creative response to a work of literature, designed and created a mural, and studied and prepared for the math and science quiz bowl.

This year we were fortunate to have five teams participate in the competition.

Team: Think Tank
Dylan Lechner, Eyssa Benhida, Kenan Wilson, Max Lechner, and Luis Raoul Villalta-Santana

Team: The Color of Revenge
Amelia Murphy, Charitie Valdes, Zahra Mohamed, Nadia Kasozi, Aida Gachago, and Ashraf Kimbugwe

Team: Back of The Bus
Tatiana Hawkins, Halleluia Zeyohannes, Serena Hawkins, Rachael Ssozi, Edgar Nzikoba, and Andrea Rodriguez Perez

Team: P6WER
Cheyenne Watson, Genevieve Kugonza, Winnie Sekyaya, Oluwamayowa (Maya)
Ariyo, Hirschfield Ssozi, and Adele Jingo

Team: Enlightened Ones
Flowerjoy Burley, Dorothy Mulo, Jeremiah Burley, Celine Nganga, Aidan Olivier Louis, and Ishmael Stein Norelus

Congratulations to all of the students who participated in this year's competition!