SOS Art Cincinnati sponsors a yearly SOS ART Show and Event of creative expressions for peace and justice. This year, OHHS Art and Design students from: Ambs’ Art Foundations classes; Kopf’s Digital Art Foundations and Painting and Mixed Media classes; Gibson’s Photoshop classes; Groh’s Drawing and Photography AP class; and Schorsch’s Drawing and Printmaking, Painting and Mixed Media, and Studio Art AP classes will be participating in the event. Students will be exhibiting alongside many established artists, including OHHS Art and Design teacher Jamie Schorsch, all addressing issues related to peace and justice.
The primary objectives of SOS Art Cincinnati are:
To promote the use of art as a vehicle for peace and justice and for a better world.
To provide art-related educational programs towards peace and justice for all ages.
To help facilitate the creation and development by local artists of literary and artistic works focused on peace and justice.
To help create a community of local artists who use their artistic voice for peace and justice, who connect and collaborate.
To use art, to inform, educate and create a dialogue on issues pertaining to peace and justice.
Information about the student’s selected to exhibit is provided below:
Icons of Influence
For “Icons of Influence” students selected an individual, an icon of society, to research who has impacted and influenced society in a positive way. Using a stylus, with a variety of Scratchboard tools, students carefully observed details, textures, highlights, and shadows. A term was selected as a descriptor of the selected icon that was included in the work to summarize the individual’s life or characteristics.
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- Kim Czulewicz “Determined”
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- Nathaniel Kremer “Triumphant”
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- Emma Ernst “Brave”
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- Jessica Jacobsen-Witt “Visionary”
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- Chad Smith “Ambitious”
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- Micaiah Allen “Radical”
Communicating Social Narratives: “Girl Rising”
Drawing and Printmaking students created a narrative image based upon one of the story vignettes from “Girl Rising” that they selected for inspiration. The compositions demonstrate the unification of notes and sketches taken during the viewing of “Girl Rising”, research related to the stories, and project planning completed previously. The artwork of Kara Walker served as inspiration for the silhouetting of the resulting images that convey the struggles that girls face around the globe in receiving and education.
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- Chad Smith “Challenging Boundaries”
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- Cheyenne Estes “Salvation”
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- Corrine Sizemore “Aspirations”
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- Jessica Jacobsen-Witt “Triumphs”
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- Katrina Crofoot “Blooming”
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- Madeline Knox “Swept Away”
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- Maiya Taft “Spellbinding Discoveries”
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- Max Wagner “Pitfalls”
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- Micaiah Allen “Unchained”
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- Zoey Thorman “Unburdened”
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- Emma Ernst “Rise”
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- Destanie Sexton “Conquering Mountains”
Societal Commentary
One of the most powerful functions of an artist is to improve our society by changing the way people think. Since the beginning of time, the greatest artists have been the ones who use art to call our attention to something that is going on in the world. The following artworks communicate a viewpoint on a topic, or a moral stance on a particular incident, that communicates personal voice through artistic interpretations.
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- Allyson Albertz “Undertones”
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- Brynn Ensminger “Justice for All”
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- Kaitlyn Delaney “17”
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- Megan Myers “Threat”
Students researched some of history’s most (in)famous events of civil unrest and justice and visually communicated the essence of those events through the relief printmaking format. The goal of the work was to communicate the importance of documenting the power of people who challenge the violation of Civil Rights through a media that can be mass produced. Kathe Kollwitz served as the inspiration for this project for her role in educating the people about the horrors of WWI and WWII through mass produced prints.
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- Kaitlyn Koenig “Untitled”
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- Kaley Nash “Freedom”
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- Makayla Vazquez “We the People”
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- Maria Baldwin “Stand Up Against Hate”
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- Morgan Cooper “We Are a Nation of Immigrants”
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- Samantha Bradley “Hands Off My Family”
Environmental Concerns
Images using brilliant, invented, color and symbols and logos recognizable throughout the world, and across language barriers, have dominated the worlds of Art and Design throughout the 20th and 21st century. Inspired by the artistic style of Peter Max, the resulting works communicate a viewpoint on an environmental topic, concern, or issue through both representation and symbolism.
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- Cassandra Stevens “Recycling Tree”
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- Sydni Crass “Gradual Decay”
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- Alexis Lepof “Home”
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- Emma Sedlack “Breached”
Selfie Portraits
Every artist tells a story through a portrait. Portraits have been an important part of art for countless centuries. No matter the time or culture in which a portrait was created, the shared human experience makes them relatable.
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- Caleb Catron “That Feeling”
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- Savannah Kinzeler “Natural Disaster”
Comic Heros Face Off Against Global Issues
Students are called to design a PSA poster with a DC or Marvel Comic Hero or Villain Saving or Destroying the World from a Global Issue. Students choose a global issue after researching world news. After comparing and contrasting DC or Marvel Comic Heroes/Villains they choose the best character to represent their issue. Understanding the purpose of PSA in print, student create a poster that communicates awareness using the tools and techniques found in Photoshop to composite images with text.
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- Lucas Fox “Discrimination”
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- Mollie Showell “Dissociative Identity”
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- Sabrina Ryland “World Hunger”
The SOS Art Exhibition, now in its 16th consecutive year, will take place at the Art Academy of Cincinnati from June 1st-10th, 2018. The opening reception will take place on June 1st, starting at 6 pm.
Visit www.sosartcincinnati.wordpress.com for more information about programming.
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