Spartan Rainbow
Thank you to everyone who helped the Art Department create this rainbow. Each tiny image that was combined to make this rainbow demonstrates how we are a strong community.
It is time to get creative and take a close look at some amazing works of art!
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Mr. Thela recreating
The Girl with the Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer |
Museums are challenging people to recreate a work of art using only people and/or objects found around their homes. The stay-at-home orders during the COVID-19 pandemic have made everyone more acquainted with their living spaces than they ever thought they would be and a little silly.
Greenville School District is jumping on the trend! As some of you may know this Ms. DellaRocco has been having students try this out in her photo class, each year the artwork made from those project show off students creativity and humor. Not only are students trying their hand at this but some are the Greenville teachers and staff. Let's all celebrate and make art together from our homes. You can try and recreate it as closely as possible, add humorous substitutions for objects(or even people) or put a Covid-19 spin on a famous work of art. Give this a try and feel free to share it with me or tag GCSartroom on Instagram! |
See what recreations people all over have done at The Getty(museum that started this trend) #betweenartandquarantine and #tussenkunstenquarantaine.
Want to Make Art at Home?Check out the NEW Tabe "ART at Home" tab! Here I will be psoting Art challenges and Art project ideas that you can try at home. If you make any of the suggeted art or any of your own please share your art with gcsarttroom.
If you have questions or suggetions please share them with me!
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Careers for Art School StudentsHave you ever thought about going to art school? If you did what would your job be? This is a question that the tones of art-loving students have asked. The Opalka Galler has interviewed locale artists to help answer this question. It is worth a listen. There are so many jobs in the arts!
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21st High School Juried Regional Art Show
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Check out the entire show at the Opalka Galler Web PageCongratulations to Colby Klob, Sierra Mistler and Kaitlyn Slik for being selected to be a part of the 21st High School Juried Regional Art Show. This is a highly prestigious Art show. Judges selected 108 works of art from the 500 pieces submitted from 22 schools. This year the show could not be held in person but the Opalka Gallery has created a Virtual Opening & Awards Ceremony to share and celebrate these young artists.
Colby is a junior who took Digital Photography during the fall semester. His work of art is a photo he took while in that class. His photo Three Dimensional Value Scale was from a project where the students need to take photos of the world around them. Their challenge was to make the image abstract and focus on the elements and principles of art taking it out of the context we typically see the subject matter in. Sierra Mistler is a senior and is a student in the IB Visual Art class. This year Sierra has been creating artwork that brings awareness to the effects that humans are having on the planet. Her video 58.62 Degrees Fahrenheit brings the viewers attention to the rising temperature of our planet and the effects that this phenomenon is having. Kaitlyn Silk is also a senior who is an IB Visual Art student. Kaitlyn has been focusing her work on the emotions and how to visually represent a variety of them. For her video Reincarnation, she created a clay flower and submerged it in water. Due to the fact this clay piece was not fired it slowly melted away. Kaitlyn filmed this process and then took the footage and reversed it, creating a time-lapse that gives the viewer a sense of hope. If you would like to see the artwork created by our Greenville students and the other students who are part of the 21st High School Juried Regional Virtual Opening and Award Ceremony the information is below. |
Spartan Stong Rainbow
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In the spirit of community and collaboration the Art Department would like to make a Spartan Strong 518 Rainbow collage of students, faculty and staff. Starting next Monday, wear a monochromatic outfit (one color) each day, take a picture of yourself and email it to Mrs. Kelley, Ms. Steele, or Ms. DellaRocco.
Monday 4/6- Red Tuesday 4/7- Orange Wednesday 4/8- Yellow Thursday 4/9- Green Friday 4/10- Blue Monday 4/13- Purple Please note: These pictures will be displayed on social media. |
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Columbia Greene 2020 Juried Art Show
By Sierra Mistler
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Congratulations to Sierra Mistler and Richard Sanchez 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. Both works of at were made in the IB Visaul Arts class.
The show is at the Foundation Gallery at Columbia Greene College and will be on display until February 27, 2020. 
By Richard Sanchez
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Student Project
By Morgan Jennings
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Students have the opportunity to create a project that they would like to pursue independently. Morgan decided that she wanted to continue to develop her artist's thinking and skills. She researched a variety of the artist and developed the projects she would complete over the course of a year.
Morgan has completed a very detailed painting based on the artwork of Gorga O'Keeffe. She took the photos and then used the grid method to break the image up to accurately obtain proportions and values. Morgan is now working on a two-part project, creating a collage from found images then breaking it down into positive and negative space and cutting it out of black paper. Stay tuned for her next project!
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The Clark Art Museum Field Trip
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The Greenville art students traveled to Massachusetts to visit the Clark Art Institute to study and experience art in real life. The group began their visit with a tour led by the Clark's docent. The docent focused on a variety of works from different time periods. The students then had an opportunity to explore the gallery on their own and find artworks that they found inspirational. They had a great time and gained a greater appreciation for art.
Check out some photos of the museum taken by the Photography class students by clicking here. |
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Follow the Greenville Art Room's Page on Instagram
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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. |
20th Annual High School Regional
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Congratulations to Jozlyn Davis, Chrissy Focken, Bri Mackey, Sierra Mistler, and Bella Ross on being selected by an outside jury to be part of the 20th 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 and Chrissy Focken who each got two pices in the show! |
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Bookmaking Kit
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Thank you to the Greenville Education Foundation for the bookmaking kits. Bookmaking requires several different materials and tools, therefore a kit is the best way to get everything that is needed to make a book. The Greenville Education Foundation was extremely generous and purchased enough for every student in the upper-level classes to make a book. The students enjoyed the experience of learning a new art skill and have a usable end product. Many students stated using them as sketch books right away.
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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
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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 |
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IB SL Visual Art Exhibitions
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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!
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19th Annual High School Regional
From left to right: Ms. DellaRocco-Cramer, Nadia Boyea, Hailey Sarsfield, Briana Mackey, Laura Morse, Morgan Jennings
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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. |
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To see any of the artwork complete and at a larger size just click on it.
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New Visual Art Standards
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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.
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Ms. DellaRocco-Cramer, Ms. Kelley, and
Ms. Steele Teachers learn too! |
Columbia Greene 2018 Juried Art Show
Bella R. and Haily S.
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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
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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.
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What is new this year?!
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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.
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Follow the Greenville Art Room's Page on Instagram
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.”
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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.
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Artist Statement
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"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!
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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.
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Army Ceiling Tile
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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.
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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.
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Photos by Nadia Boyea
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Photos by Mr. Morelli
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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.
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Downloaded Files for Objects
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Student Design using shapes on Makerbot program
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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.
