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Fall 2024 “Celebrating Art” OHHS Art and Design Students to Be Published

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“Celebrating Art” is devoted to the promotion and appreciation of student art. The intent of their student art contest is to motivate student artists. The top entries are published in an anthology that will record the creative works of today’s student artists.

Students recently submitted work and 89 OHHS Art and Design students were invited to be published in the Summer 2024 “Celebrating Art”!  Only the best art is selected to be included in the full-color hardbound art book, “Celebrating Art”. Additionally, final judging for the “Top Ten Artist” and “High Merit Artist” awards will be completed and announced soon. The following students should feel honored. This is not a contest where every entry is invited to be published and is a highly selective competition. Thousands of entries were not invited to be published. Being published represents a lot of talent, hard work, and dedication from students.

Congratulations to the following students:

From Ambs’ Ceramics 2 and Art Foundations classes:

Arien Mesbah
Celeste Bruker
Claudia Borcherding
Dylan Johnson
Eliot Flaig
Gaberiel Gaustad
Gloria Wilson
Jillian Hayden
Kinsley Walker
Mikaela Spangler
Nelly Wimp
Sophia Tirado
Travis Harvey
Tyler Hirth
Tyler Woycke
Aarian Hughes
Evelyn Good
Logan Rasetter
Ava Visjager
Charlie Archer
Tyleigh Helms
Tamara Alkhaldi
Alivia Petra
Alyssa Bowling-Tomlin
Ava Bunke
Averie Thomas
Brooklyn Stanley
Mackenzie Grantmaier
Shawn Fellow
Valeria Garcia Cortez

From Dignan-Cummins’ Ceramics 1, Honors Enamels, Mosaic, and Glass, Honors Fiber Arts, Sculpture, and Studio Art AP 3D Design classes:

Aubrey Laib
Branden Rentz
Fiona Taft
Maddie Hildebrand
Sam Getz
Skyla Blevins
Evelyn Dann
Jamicka Williams
Leo Ruthven
Maggie Heydorn
Anna price
Carisa Allen
Casey Wheeler
Emma Mondary
Eric Dew
Grace Gray
Gretchen Isbel
Lauren Huster
Lexi Predmore
Maddie Smith
Olivia Young
Sammy McDonald
Savannah Shoemaker
Victor Benken
Will Dennison
Zoe Wuerdeman

From Kopf’s Art Foundations, Digital Art Foundations, and Painting and Public Art classes:

Max Kontonickas
Weson Smyth
Catherine Glogowski
Ahleya Velasco
Lyla Mendoza

From Schorsch’s Drawing and Printmaking, Art Foundations, and Studio Art AP 2D Design and Drawing classes: 

Lyla Haste
Mylla Davis
Trenton Duttenhoffer
Aubree Fuson
Aurora Studenka
Austin Haarmeyer
Baylee Moorman
Jackson Mundstock
John Team
Solstice McGuire
Madde Garrison
Kendalyn Kress
Lydia Wilson
Rachel Wunderlich
Sophia Wehman
Adriana Russ
Alysse Niewoehner
Annie Riley
Bethany Bachman
Emma Brunner
Gladys Lopez Felix
Jordan Tinsley
Kayla Linkenfelter
Lizzie Schreibeis
Molly Audretch
Olivia Widener

The 2024-2025 Memory Project: Creating Portraits of Kindness for Children in India

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“The Memory Project” is a nonprofit organization that invites art teachers and their students to create portraits for youth around the world who have faced substantial challenges, such as neglect, abuse, loss of parents, and extreme poverty. Over the past nine years, Drawing and Printmaking and NAHS students have created over 470 portraits for children in Madagascar, the Philippines, and Syrian refugees in Jordan, Puerto Rico, the Rohingya in Rakhine, Columbia, Nigeria, Cameroon, and Sierra Leone. This year, students at OHHS created portraits for 30 Indian children.

Children in India face a complex set of challenges that affect their education, health, safety, and development. While school attendance has improved, many children, especially in rural areas, still lack access to quality education due to poverty, long travel distances, and inadequate resources. Economic pressures contribute to high dropout rates and force many children into labor, where laws against child labor are inconsistently enforced. Health and nutrition are also major concerns, with many children suffering from malnutrition and limited healthcare access, especially in rural areas. Mental health needs are often overlooked due to a lack of resources. Gender discrimination affects girls in particular, as cultural expectations often push them out of school early and into child marriages. Many children are vulnerable to abuse and exploitation, with physical, emotional, and sexual abuse remaining prevalent. Climate change also poses challenges, as frequent natural disasters disrupt schooling, displace families, and impact health, while water scarcity affects hygiene and daily life. The digital divide became especially apparent during the pandemic, as many students lacked access to online learning resources.

“The Memory Project” portraits are created by students enrolled in the Drawing and Printmaking course (grades 9-12). The students began by analyzing the artwork of Kehinde Wiley and used the information provided about the children’s favorite things, colors, and hopes for the future to design the background of the image. Once the portraits are delivered to the children, we will receive a video of their reactions to the artwork. Below are some of the highlights of the OHHS Drawing and Printmaking students’ resulting portraits.

Exploring ‘Subjective Evidence’ and Multiple Perspectives

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On October 18th, AP Art and Design students embarked on their first field experience as a part of this year’s Contemporary Arts Center School Outreach Program. The CAC SOP offers students from grades 2 through 12 a comprehensive, immersive experience with contemporary art. Running from September through May, this year-long program includes an in-school orientation, two guided tours of CAC exhibitions, a classroom project tied to the exhibition led by a local artist, and a spring visit to an artist’s studio. Program docents work with the same class throughout the year, fostering continuity and rapport with the students. Many docents have developed long-standing relationships with the schools and teachers they support, providing consistent guidance and engagement year after year.

During the tour, students engaged with the Barbara Probst: Subjective Evidence exhibition. A German photographer who divides her time between Munich and New York, Barbara began capturing single scenes through multiple images taken simultaneously with a radio-controlled camera system in 2000. This innovative technique reveals complex, playful, and darkly cinematic visions of people in time and space. Probst’s work spans various photographic genres, including landscape, still life, fashion, portraiture, and street photography. Her multi-perspective approach creates quasi-three-dimensional views that raise philosophical questions about optical authority: what defines visual truth when multiple perspectives coexist? Does adding more visual data lead to a greater sense of realism—or diminish it?

In the gallery, students explored the idea of multiple vantage points capturing a single scene and moment in time. Throughout the year, students will create artworks inspired by their experiences with the CAC SOP and will participate in an exhibition in the Spring of 2025.

The Future BFA “Artist as Researcher” Exhibition @ the AAC

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The Art Academy of Cincinnati (AAC) recently invited Ms. Schorsch to nominate 4 OHHS Art and Design students for full scholarships, covering tuition and housing, to participate in the Future BFA program. Future BFA is the AAC portfolio and college prep program for rising High School students interested in pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in visual art, design, or creative writing in college. For three weeks in July, students from across the country assembled on campus in the historic neighborhood of Over-the-Rhine in Cincinnati, Ohio. During the Future BFA program, students took a college-level course based on artistic research and independent projects. As a result of the course and full access to the AAC studios, FBFA students produced work culminating in the final “Artist as Researcher” exhibition. In addition, FBFA students grew in their understanding of themselves and their practice as an artist and formed long-lasting friendships with like-minded peers. Upon successful completion of the Future BFA Pre-College program students gained 3-college credits as a transferable studio elective.

Congratulations again to Milo Butts, Rain Magrum, Jackson Mundstock, and Finley Nguyen on receiving full scholarships to participate in this amazing summer school opportunity! On Friday, July 26th, from 4-8 pm, a celebration of their experience took place alongside the exhibition of the artworks they created in Site 1212, located at the cornerstone of the AAC campus. Students spoke about bringing their artistic visions to life and their amazing experiences with the Future BFA program.

Milo Butts
Rain Magrum
Jackson Mundstock
Finley Nguyen

OHHS Art and Design Summer School Adventures with FBFA @ AAC!

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The Art Academy of Cincinnati (AAC) recently invited Ms. Schorsch to nominate 4 OHHS Art and Design students for full scholarships, covering tuition and housing, to participate in the Future BFA program. Future BFA is the AAC portfolio and college prep program for rising High School sophomores, juniors, and seniors interested in pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in visual art, design, or creative writing in college. For three weeks in July, students from across the country assemble on campus in the historic neighborhood of Over-the-Rhine in Cincinnati, Ohio. During the Future BFA program, students take a college-level course based on artistic research and independent projects. As a result, FBFA students produce artwork, design, creatively write, and develop their portfolios. In addition, FBFA students grow in their understanding of themselves and their practice as an artist and form long-lasting friendships with like-minded peers. Upon successful completion of the Future BFA Pre-College program students will gain 3-college credits as a transferrable studio elective.

Congratulations to Milo Butts, Rain Magrum, Jackson Mundstock, and Finley Nguyen on receiving full scholarships to participate in this amazing summer school opportunity!

Rain Magrum
Jackson Mundstock
Finley Nguyen
Milo Butts