OHHS Art and Design Teachers Exhibiting New Works!

Posted on August 19, 2018 by OHHS Art and Design

OHHS Art and Design teachers Steve Groh and Jamie Schorsch have been busy making new artwork for exhibitions around Cincinnati. Both shows opened this past weekend!

“Wax Nostalgic:1994”, which opened at BLDG in Covington, is an art exhibit inspired by pop art and culture. The exhibit features more than 50 local, regional and national artists whose works came together to celebrate the most influential year of that decade. “Wax Nostalgic” was guest curated by Chris Breeden, the general manager of Arnold’s Bar & Grill. You can check out the “Wax Nostalgic: 1994” between 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., and by appointment Monday through Friday, through September 14th.

Below is Groh’s artist statement about his piece:

“Scream Spirit”
Digital Print on Metal

“In 1994, the Supreme Court ruled on a copyright law case that established that a commercial parody can qualify as fair use. That same year, Edvard Munch’s famous painting “The Scream” was stolen and then recovered three months later. This manipulated image is a pastiche that uses that iconic image as a springboard for reflecting on some of the notable events that occurred during that equally iconic year”.

Steve Groh
“Scream Spirit”
Digital Print on Metal

The exhibition opening for “Visioning Human Rights” and “25” took place at the Fitton Center or Creative Arts in conjuncture with and Artist Panel Discussion and the Season Launch party with over 1400 visitors in attendance.

“25” is a multi-media invitational group show curated by the Fitton Center’s Director of Exhibitions, Cat Mayhugh, with help from the Fitton Center’s Exhibitions Selection Committee and Staff. The invitational show features 25 artists who are highly engaged with the Fitton Center for Creative Arts’ exhibitions, education, outreach and StreetSpark programs and/or are active players in the City of Hamilton arts community.

The exhibition takes place concurrently with the premier of a new traveling narrative quilt show curated by Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi, titled “Visioning Human Rights in the New Millennium: Quilting the World’s Conscience”, featuring international artists of the Women of Color Quilters Network and inspired by the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. The goal of the ” 25″ was to extend the discussion of human rights sparked by Dr. Mazloomi’s timely exhibition by creating artwork in response to the human rights concepts presented in the articles presented in the UN Declaration of Human Rights. You can check out the “Visioning Human Rights” between 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., through September 28th.

Below is Schorsch’s artist statement about her pieces:

“Routine Education”
Article 3 Right to Life, Liberty, Personal Security and Article 26 Right to Education
Archival Ink, Alcohol Marker, Prismacolor Pencil, Acrylic, and Collaged Materials

“Routine Education” is a commentary on the issue of gun related violence continually impacting American schools. The vultures depicted in the work were selected for their symbolic representation in relation to life events, specifically as signifiers of death. The numbers, compiled through research, are juxtaposed with the vulture imagery to represent the amount of documented shootings, deaths, and injuries that have occurred in American schools from the 18th century until March of 2018″.

Jamie Schorsch
“Routine Education”
Article 3 Right to Life, Liberty, Personal Security and Article 26 Right to Education
Archival Ink, Alcohol Marker, Prismacolor Pencil, Acrylic, and Collaged Materials

“Migrant Refuge”
Article 14 Right to Asylum in other Countries from Persecution
Archival Ink, Alcohol Marker, Prismacolor Pencil, Acrylic, and Collaged Materials

“Mass displacements and exoduses have occurred throughout human history. “Migrant Refuge” addresses the issues of the acceptance of refugees seeking asylum on an increasingly global scale. Millions of individuals, and families, attempt to migrate and establish new roots but face deportation and entry refusal on many fronts. The sparrows juxtaposed with countries that have most recently experienced mass exoduses are meant to serve as a directive to nurture our fellow humans”.

Jamie Schorsch
“Migrant Refuge”
Article 14 Right to Asylum in other Countries from Persecution
Archival Ink, Alcohol Marker, Prismacolor Pencil, Acrylic, and Collaged Materials

.Links to articles related to the exhibitions are provided above.

“Paint the Town Red”

Posted on August 19, 2018 by OHHS Art and Design

OHHS Art and Design teacher Jamie Schorsch was hard at work this sweltering summer creating a large scale mural for the Miami University Regionals: Hamilton Campus. Schorsch was a part of a team of three other local artists: John McCoy, Abby Martin and Stephen Smith, working with StreetSpark on the creation of the mural. Formed through a partnership between the City of Hamilton and the Fitton Center for Creative Arts, StreetSpark is a program founded to further the art identity in the city through exciting public art projects. This program creates arts engagement by producing high-quality murals, building opportunities for local artists, and enhancing the visual appeal of the city. StreetSpark brings visible murals and artwork into the community with the goal of fueling Hamilton with art. Stephen Smith designed the mural selected for the Miami University Regionals Hamilton campus as a part of their 50th-anniversary celebration. Stephen finds inspiration for his whimsical paintings in Hamilton’s historic architecture which has largely impacted the design of “Paint the Town Red.”

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OHHS Art and Design Students Selected for the 2018 OAEA Emerging Artist Show

Posted on August 14, 2018 by OHHS Art and Design

The OAEA (Ohio Art Education Association) High School Show showcases Ohio’s Emerging Artist artistic efforts. The Emerging Artist show is dedicated to showcasing artistic efforts of students who have only had the chance to take one or two art classes in high school. The competitive professional forum is intended to prepare young artists for their creative future in college or in an art career.

The Emerging Artist show will be on display September 10th through October 20th in the 2nd floor lobby of the State Teachers Retirement Building (STRS), 275 East Broad Street, in Columbus, OH. To celebrate the teachers and students there will be a reception on October, 20th at the STRS building. The students will be awarded with certificates, prizes and some works will be selected in different categories for special rewards. The ceremony will begin at 2:00 and end around 3:00.

One hundred fifty-three out of two hundred-forty pieces of artwork were selected for this juried show from the nine OAEA regions in the state of Ohio. This show is designed to help motivate and inspire new artists to excel in areas of drawing, painting, sculpture, crafts, computer art, photography and printing. Everyone involved should be proud of the students who inspire, creative thinking, problem solving and skillful techniques.

Congratulations to the following students from Ms. Schorsch’s Drawing and Printmaking and Painting and Mixed Media classes for being selected to exhibit at this year’s Emerging Artist show.

Emma Sedlack “Blooms”
Destanie Sexton “Internal Patterns”
Chad Smith “Abstract Thinking”

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OHHS Art and Design and SOS Art Cincinnati 2018

Posted on May 18, 2018 by OHHS Art and Design

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.

: Kim Czulewicz “Determined”

: Nathaniel Kremer “Triumphant”

: Emma Ernst “Brave”

: Jessica Jacobsen-Witt “Visionary”

: Chad Smith “Ambitious”

: 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.

: Chad Smith “Challenging Boundaries”

: Cheyenne Estes “Salvation”

: Corrine Sizemore “Aspirations”

: Jessica Jacobsen-Witt “Triumphs”

: Katrina Crofoot “Blooming”

: Madeline Knox “Swept Away”

: Maiya Taft “Spellbinding Discoveries”

: Max Wagner “Pitfalls”

: Micaiah Allen “Unchained”

: Zoey Thorman “Unburdened”

: Emma Ernst “Rise”

: 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.

: Allyson Albertz “Undertones”

: Brynn Ensminger “Justice for All”

: Kaitlyn Delaney “17”

: Megan Myers “Threat”

Art & Civil Rights
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.

: Kaitlyn Koenig “Untitled”

: Kaley Nash “Freedom”

: Makayla Vazquez “We the People”

: Maria Baldwin “Stand Up Against Hate”

: Morgan Cooper “We Are a Nation of Immigrants”

: 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.

: Cassandra Stevens “Recycling Tree”

: Sydni Crass “Gradual Decay”

: Alexis Lepof “Home”

: 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.

: Caleb Catron “That Feeling”

: 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.

: Lucas Fox “Discrimination”

: Mollie Showell “Dissociative Identity”

: 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.

2018 OHHS Art and Design Collaborative Sculpture

Posted on May 18, 2018 by OHHS Art and Design

The students in Ms. Kopf’s Graphic Arts MX class, along with the Robotics students, worked collaboratively to create a recycled wood assemblage. The idea for our assemblage is based on the assemblage work of Louise Nevelson.