This weekend, students from Ms. Kopf and Ms. Schorsch’s Painting and Mixed Media classes will be exhibiting work at the Cincinnati Art Museum. The Cincinnati Art Museum has curated an exhibition of artworks addressing the topic of “Environment”. Artists were invited to interpret and use their creative voice. Works submitted had to be 2-Dimensional and only 10 inches by 10 inches.

The Expo will be on display on April 14–15, 2018 11:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Cincinnati Art Museum
953 Eden Park Drive
Cincinnati, OH 45202

Adam Green, Grade 12
Kara Heckmuller, Grade 12
Mayson Reperowitz, Grade 10
Madeline Schwoeppe, Grade 11
Emma Sedlack, Grade 10
Destanie Sexton, Grade 10
Chad Smith, Grade 9
Maiya Taft, Grade 9
Jessica Jacobsen-Witt, Grade 11

Be on the lookout in the next week or so for the Top 20 works that the public will vote on for the following:

Congratulations to the following OHHS Art and Design students who were selected to be one of the 48 art students selected for an opportunity to attend a professional 2 day art workshop with nationally acclaimed artists Wanda Mumm and David Rankin:

Alaina Broughton
Autumn Shelton
Lulu Thornton

Great Parks Art Competition and Workshop Information

Students will develop a sustainable and structured process that will mirror the established methods and practices that contemporary artists use today. The class will be a focused approach, yet give the students the tools to be independent to explore across their chosen medium to build strong art skills. This art experience will give students a chance to experience various college level concepts:

• using value to create depth
• create good composition for better paintings
• learn the use of temperature and atmospheric color to create  spatial planes.

This course will be a hands-on format where students work at improving their individual skill sets. We will help you understand how to get to the next level. The students will all be in a large group initially regardless of the medium selected for the workshop to go over concepts and practices about creating art in general. Then the students will be broken up into the two mediums and continue their work for the rest of the weekend.  Wanda’s Oil Class will work with the students in mini painting exercises the first day. These mini exercises will prepare the student to create a solo piece of art the second day that will be of their choosing. Wanda will help each student achieve their individual best outcome. For the Watercolor Class, David will explain and work with students to start their own art journals using sketching and watercolor techniques to record impressions the students see in their lives.

Painting and Mixed Media students from Ms. Kopf’s and Ms. Schorsch’s classes at OHHS are participating in the “Art in Root” program, through which they will receive 1–2 visits from a Great Parks’ interpreter with a native animal for natural history presentation, as well as a future trip to the parks to sketch the flora and fauna in our area. Students generated artwork based upon the December visit and selected artworks that were displayed at the regional art exhibitions.  Works exhibited at Miami Whitewater for the regional exhibition were juried by local artists Ann Geise, Mary Lou Holt, Linda Bittner and John Agnew.

Congratulations to the students’ whose work was juried and selected for the exhibition titled “Between the Miamis: Great Art for Great Parks” which will take place at Sharon Woods in April 2018. The students’ worked with be displayed alongside the artwork of judges and a final jurying of works will take place during the exhibition.

From the Regional Art in Root Show at Miami Whitewater Forest:

2^nd Place:
Sabrina Ryland, Oak Hill High School, “Little Cow on the Prairie”

3^rd Place:
Sydney Caldwell, Oak Hill High School, “Yellow Bellied Sapsucker”

There will be an opening reception on Friday, April 13^th from 6:00pm-9:00pm and all  are invited to attend!

This past weekend, the state level of judging for The Ohio Governor’s Youth Art Exhibition, took place. The Exhibition, now in its forty-eighth year, is dedicated to the educational and artistic advancement of our talented young people in the state of Ohio. The exhibition is open to all of Ohio’s 1,112 high schools, both public and private, chartered by the State of Ohio Department of Education. The exhibition is a valuable incentive for our young people; it encourages an appreciation for the arts throughout Ohio and reflects the fine quality of art instruction and talent which exist in our state.

The process of selecting artworks for the state exhibition begins on a regional level. The state is divided into 15 regional locations, with high school students in each region invited to enter work in that regional judging. Each region has a designated Regional Director, who is responsible for choosing the judges for his or her region and arranging specifics of the event.

The state judging takes place in Columbus; however, the judges for this level of competition are chosen from all over the country and are generally professional artists, college level instructors, or both.

From the 11,500 regional entries from the 15 regions, approximately 2,500 are selected to enter the state judging. State jurors then select 300 for the actual exhibition, with 25 of the 300 chosen to receive the Governor’s Award of Excellence. Scholarships are offered to seniors by over 30 universities and colleges of art.

The exhibition opens at the James A. Rhodes State Office Tower, across from the State Capitol, in April, and closes at the end of May. At the exhibition opening, students receive Awards of Excellence and scholarship awards.