Artistree AP & High School Student Art Show 2024
Here’s what’s been going on with our amazing student artists at Woodstock:
A trip to Boston: In March students in Advanced Art, Advanced Digital Art, AP Art History, AP Drawing and AP 2D Design visited the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston on March 13th. Students went on a guided tour that focused on several different works of art made from a variety of media and from a variety of time periods and places. The docents engaged the students in meaningful conversations that related to identity, culture, artistic expression and visual stories. Students also had some time to explore the exhibits on their own, during this time the students had the opportunity to sketch inspiring works of art.
Student Art Show Returns!
During the first week in May, the school art show brought creativity and excitement for art to the community. The art show was open during the school days, and many students and staff had the opportunity to visit the amazing drawings, paintings, collages, and sculptures created by our 7-12 students. The art show was open to community members on Friday and Saturday evenings before the YOH performance. Thank you, Steve Stunts, who played music during Friday night's art opening! The interactive art stations were especially popular; we even had students run caricature portrait stations for visitors. The art department looks forward to more pop-up shows in the future!
Students are recognized for their outstanding work at the Congressional Art Show
Each spring, a nation-wide high school arts competition is sponsored by the Members of the U.S. House of Representatives. The Congressional Art Competition began in 1982, in Vermont, to provide an opportunity for members of Congress to encourage and recognize the artistic talents of their young constituents. Since then, over 650,000 high school students have been involved with the nationwide competition. The over-all winners from each state are displayed for one year in the U.S. Capitol.
Congratulations to the six student artists who were recognized by the art teachers at Woodstock for having their work at this year’s art show in Castleton: Lindsey Bacon, Logan Knox, Delia Morgan, Charlotte Nunan, Clara Shortle, and Joseph Tsouknakis. The students viewed the amazing artwork created by 90 students from around Vermont. Congress woman Becca Balint met the students and presented the awards. Charlotte Nunan won first place for Windsor county, and tied for the People’s choice award!
Charlotte with her winning painting “Under Pressure”
On Tuesday, Dr. Gravel's AP Art History class went for a tour of the Hudson River School paintings at Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park. Ms. Piccoli engaged the students in discussions about the landscape paintings using Visual Thinking Strategies which encourages participants to observe, think and feel emotions when looking at art. The students just took their AP exam last week and studied the Hudson River School earlier in the year. They really impressed Ms. Piccoli with their observations, thoughts and use of relevant vocabulary terms like "sublime" to describe the paintings and "divine illumination" when explaining the symbolism the artists incorporated in their use of light. The group had the opportunity to look closely at paintings by Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt and William Bradford. Maeve Roylance stated, "It was very interesting to learn about all the different aspects of the paintings, but to then see how they all came together was really incredible."
