For the third year in a row, ArtWorks created a “Museum of the Streets” by painting and then unleashing ArtCars into the streets of Greater Cincinnati.  ArtCars is a part of StreetScapes: A Street Painting Festival, an annual festival in which masterpieces are transposed onto the sidewalks of Clifton’s Gaslight District. With ArtCars, instead of the sidewalks getting painted, cars get painted!

This year, OHHS Art Teacher Jamie Schorsch led  a team of apprentices on the creation of an M.C. Escher ArtCar inspired by the work “Verbum”.  OHHS Alumni Scott Howard (’11) and Emily Gibbemeyer (’10) served as apprentices on her team.  Current OHHS student, Rupie Spraul, worked with a lead artist on the recreation of Sandro Botecelli’s “Birth of Venus” on his own family’s car- which can now be spotted driving around the West Side of Cincinnati!

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APPROPRIATION:  The term appropriation refers to the use of borrowed elements in the creation of a new work of art, or refers to the new work itself.  Appropriation practice involves the ‘appropriation’ of ideas, symbols, artifacts, image, sound, objects, forms or styles from other cultures, from art history, from popular culture, or other aspects of man-made visual or non-visual culture.  Inherent in our understanding of appropriation is the concept that the new work re-contextualizes whatever it borrows to create the new work. In most cases the original ‘thing’ remains accessible as the original, without change.

The Studio Art AP Drawing and 2D Design students were given the challenge of re-visualize, and responding, to some of the iconic images that were photographed on 9/11/01 and the days that followed.  Through the use of image appropriation, students were able to manipulate the original images and bring their own personal reflection and reaction to the events of that tragic day.

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This summer, Olivia Bryant worked as an apprentice on the Ronald McDonald House Room by Room team.  The team, led by artist Tina Westerkamp, created over 40 artworks to be hung throughout the house.  Below is the presentation they put together for the ArtWorks Celebration night.

OHHS Alumni, current Art Students, and Art Teacher Jamie Schorsch were given the opportunity to work with ArtWorks on the creation of several murals around the Greater Cincinnati area.  Visit www.artworkscincinnati.org for information about mural sites, dedication dates, and more!

Congratulations to Sara Thomas on her participation in “Teen Talent”, an Ohio statewide competition.  Sara earned 4 awards for her artwork, which now goes to the International competition in Tennessee.