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 comunity, the Art room has joined social media! Now students work will be displayed in the hallways, at art shows, on this web page, and on Instagram. You can follow the Instagram page 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.
r. 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 Jusapavicus 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.