Art Club

Art club created thier own design on ceramic plates to share with thier families and friends this holiday season. Each student decided if they wanted to use under glaze, glaze or glaze colored pencils to create their image. With the variety of mediums and techniques each plate that was created is unique.

New Etching Press!

Check out this amazing piece of equipment the high school Art room just got in! You can tell the students are excited to use it as they unpacked and assemble the press. With this new equipment, the Greenville students will be able to learn new artmaking process and make many more prints. This year for the first time students will be able to create drypoint prints and collagraph.  They will also be able to use the press to print their linoleum, woodblocks, and monoprints. ​

3"x 3"x 3" Art Show

The Greenville Art sutdents are taking part in the 3"x 3"x 3" Art show at Arlene's Artist Materials shop in Albany. This show is a fundraiser for the Albany Center Gallery that brings artists from all levels and experiences together to help support the artists in the Mohawk-Hudson region. 
The rules of the art show are simple- create a work of art that is three inches by three inches. If you want to create a three dimentional piece it must have a depth of three inches. 
All the art works will be sold for $10.00 at the show.

The Dates:
Preview (check out all that was submitted): Monday July 9th - Wednesday July 11th
Opening Party (this is when you can buy a work of art): Thursday July 12th from 3:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Last day of the Show: Sunday August 11th

​IB SL Visual Art Exhibitions

Way to go first time ever IB SL art students! Cole Ackerman, Nadia Boyea, Nicole Torrey, and Hailey Sarsfield completed the challenging requirements of the International Bacheletory Visual Arts Criteria. Each student needed to create a unified body of art work, document their proccess and ideas in a Visual Arts Journal. They also had to create a reasearch presentation comparing three different works of art from diverse cultures and time periods.
The Exhibition required that each student have four to eight works of art set up in a logical and aesthetically pleasing way. In addition, the students needed to write an artist statement for each piece and an explanation of what they were trying to communicate with their viewers.
To see their artwork check out the IB Visual Arts page.
Setting up the Exhibition!

​19th Annual High School Regional

From left to right: Ms. DellaRocco-Cramer, Nadia Boyea, Hailey Sarsfield, Briana Mackey, Laura Morse, Morgan Jennings
Congratulations to Nadia Boyea, Morgan Jennings, Briana Mackey, Laura Morse and Hailey Sarsfield on being selected by an outside jury to be part of the 19th High School Regional Art Show held at the Albany Center Gallery. Over 100 schools entered. and approximately 500 works of art. This exhibition shows off the best of the area. The show focuses on displaying the more original and technically strong artwork.
Extra special congratulations to Briana Mackey, who won one of five selected jurors pick for her work "For You, A Thousand Times Over" inspired by the novel The Kite Runner.
To see any of the artwork complete and at a larger size just click on it.

New Visual Art Standards

The Greenville Art Department attended a conference, where art teachers from New York State gather togther to learn and discuss the New York State updated Art Standards. All the arts: Theater, Visual, and Music were updated with and addition of Media arts embracing the use of technology in all of our classes. With these new standards some classes and lessons may be changing, but only for the better.
Ms. DellaRocco-Cramer, Ms. Kelley, and
​Ms. Steele
Teachers learn too!

Columbia Greene 2018 Juried Art Show

Bella R. and Haily S.
​Congratulations to Bella Ross and Hailey Sarsfield who were selected to be in the Columbia Greene Juried Art Show! Two students from 16 local schools were selected to take part in the exhibition. The work that was selected demonstrates a high level of craftsmanship, experimentation and critical thinking. Even more exciting Hailey's digital video and physical artifacts project won third place! You can view her video by going to the IB Visual Arts page. 
The show is at the Foundation Gallery at Columbia Green College and will be on display until February 23, 2018

New Screen Printing Table Top

Thank you to the Greenville Education Foundation for the addition of a new screen printing table top. This is a key pieces of equipment in creating screen prints. The table top holds the screen and the paper or fabric that you are printing on, keeping everything in place. To better understand what a screen print is and the process check out the video to the right and the Printmaking/Graphics page.  

What is new this year?!

For the first time ever students can take IB Visual Arts class. This class gives students who are interested in earning an IB diploma an option for the category five requirement. The Ib Visual Art class also provides a college level Art class for students who are intrested in going to college for Art and possible earning college credit. The IB students are required to create a unified body of artwork and display it as an exhibition. They also are required to research a variety of artwork and write a comparative study, and continually be reflecting and experimenting on in their visual art journal. Check out the work they that have made at the IB Visual Art's page.

Follow the Greenville Art Room's Page on Instagram
The Greenville art students have been making amazing work. To share their work with the community, the Art room has joined social media! Now students work will be displayed in the hallways, at art shows, on this web page (http://gcshsart.weebly.com/), and on Instagram. You can follow the Instagram page at 
at www.instagram.com/gcsartroom or on the Instagram App @GCSartroom.

Illustrating Nature Field Trip

Eight Greenville students were invited to attend a day at the Rensselaerville Huyck Preserve where they learned about illustrating nature, the environment around the facility and wild birds that were rehabilitated.
The students started their day with a breakfast snack by the research pond and then got to work. They were learning about how to verbally and visually communicate with drawing exercises. They then went for a hike and focused on the importance of observation all the different microcosms around the research pond. The students then worked with Sandy Orris, a retired Greenville teacher, botanist and scientific illustrator.
The afternoon was spent drawing predator bird and getting the feeling for quick drawing quick sketches of live animals.

28th Annual High School Invitational Art Exhibit

​Nadia Boyea, Briana Mackey and Grace Statham’s artwork was all entered and accepted into the 28th Annual High School Invitational Art Exhibit. Each of these young ladies works very hard in and out of class on their art work. The artwork was on display at Hudson Valley community college. If you see them be sure to congratulate them!

​18th Annual High School Regional

Congratulations to Nadia Boyea, Grace Chesbro, Christine Focken, Samantha Jones, Riley Smith and Grace Statham on being selected by an outside jury to be part of the 18th High School Regional Art Show. Over 100 schools entered approximately 500 works of art, this exhibition shows off the best of the area selecting the more original and technically strong artwork. The show was held at the at the Opalka Gallery at Sage College in Albany. ​
From left to right; Christine Focken, Riley Smith, Grace Chesbro, Nadia Boyea, Grace Statham, Samantha Jones
​Mr. Hilgendorff and Ms. DellaRocco-Cramer

Follow the Greenville Art Room's Page on Instagram
The Greenville art students have been making amazing work. To share their work with the community, the Art room has joined social media! Now students work will be displayed in the hallways, at art shows, on this web page (http://gcshsart.weebly.com/), and on Instagram. You can follow the Instagram page at 
at www.instagram.com/gcsartroom or on the Instagram App @GCSartroom.

Art Club

Art Club has been helping prepare for the High School Musical, Cinderella. The Art Club helped create the setting of a busy marketplace by creating fully-frosted pastel three tiered cakes, ham, sausage links and packages. Each of the props needed to look believable from the audience and kept held up to dance. The Art Club members had creative solutions for all props and helped to complete the magic of the show.  

Student Project Art Work

Nadia Boyea is an eleventh grade student here at Greenville High School. After taking a wide variety or art classes that are offered at Greenville, she decided to go futher with her art work and practiced working like a true artist. Nadia is working on a Student Project and is building her portfoilo working with a mentor. She comes up with the concept, subject matter and mediums of all of her projects. This requires planning, problem solving and dedication. Check out her latest ongoing work of art, Fears Project.
Mr. Karle: “When your child is born, it is both a new life in the sense of a new person that never existed before, but also a new life for you. It is as though the life  you had before was actually a past life. So, my fear is that if a child of mine died, I would lose, both their life and my new life. Now, I have four children, and I fear that I would have to figure out how to function for the children that remain if I lost one."
Courtney: “I’m not actually scared of space itself, just the fact that it's so big and there's so much we don't know.”
Mrs. Finch: “I am afraid of birds, especially when they are flying around my head! I attribute my fear to a visit to the Burnett Park Zoo in Syracuse. I was 2 and was bitten by a flamingo that I decided to try to feed through the fence.

Artist Statement 

     "I thought of this project one night before falling asleep and quickly wrote it down in my phone notes before it was forgotten. The main goal of this project was to get people I am close with, people I am acquaintances with and people I hardly know to share one of their biggest fears with me. I reached out in person and on social media for participants and everyone involved was a volunteer, some however needed to see what others images looked like to feel comfortable about sharing their own fear. I understand that what I asked was a lot of someone who didn’t know me well. Some fears were deeper and more meaningful, making it a more personal experience for some, while for others it wasn’t a big deal and their biggest fear was simple. The reason behind projecting the picture onto the person rather than just having them stand next to it or somehow merging just a plain picture into an image of their fear is because if you fear something, it’s part of you. You can’t get rid of your biggest fear, you only learn to cope with it. In most cases this is in ways that make it as avoidable as possible. Learning to live with a fear is something difficult to deal with, it interferes with your life at some point and can make it harder to enjoy things if you’re constantly thinking about whatever you fear.
     To sum it up, the projection of the fear is to represent the fact that yes, you have this fear, but it isn’t all of you and it most certainly doesn’t define you or how you choose to live your life. I think that overall this project was a success and many people got excited when seeing my final choice of image (especially after it was edited and printed) making it rewarding for me to see that they felt I portrayed their fear accurately."

New Potters Wheel!

The Art Department is excited to announce that we now have a potters wheel at the high school.  Students are curious and excited to learn a new art skill. This new piece of equipment will allow students to learn how to make functional objects and about art related careers. 

Army Ceiling Tile

The local Army recruiter requested that all the schools in their district represent themselves with a ceiling tile that they would display in their office. They asked that each school show school spirit and their support for our troops. Matt Hallenbeck, Tristan Marcello, Joel Keeny and Liam Black all worked on the tile in their spare time. Nice job gentlemen, you did a great job.

Spring Olana  and Thomas Cole Field Trip

Students from the high, middle and elementary schools hopped on a bus and traveled across the river to visit Olana and The Thomas Cole House. There they learned about the owners of the homes, architecture, the historical time period and discussed the art work that was on display. At both locations all students and teachers took out their sketch books and practiced their plein air drawing skills. The day we went to Olana was the first time they allowed photos to be taken of the inside of the home. Many students were thrilled to have this opportunity.
Photos by Nadia Boyea
Photos by Mr. Morelli

3D Printer Visits Greenville Art Room

During the month of December the high school students had the opportunity to test out a MakerBot 3D printer. Students could come in outside of class and after school to test out the equipment. Printing was fascinating and groups of students would stop by to see how the technology worked. Most students printed objects that were predesigned by a professional but some students tried their hand at building pieces themselves. Greenville is planing on purchasing a 3D printer in the future, but we are waiting until the technology is perfected.
Downloaded Files for Objects
Student Design using shapes on Makerbot program

High School Regional

Congratulations to Madalyn Krasney , Sarah Juzapavicus and Rachel Maffei for being selected by an outside jury to be part of the 17th High School Regional Art Show. Over 100 schools entered approximately 500 works of art, this exhibition shows off the best of the area selecting the more original and technically strong art work.