HOMEWORK 3

Aaron Young @ The Armory
Read the article posted HERE and answer the following questions.
- How was the artwork made?
- What is the title of the work?
- What inspired the title of the work?
- What was the cost of producing the work?
- How many panels composed the painting?
- Is this a "painting"? explain...

Watch a slideshow of Aaron's work HERE

Watch a video of the performance HERE

-McQuilling

Current Events

Here is a link to the article we discussed in Wednesday's preclass.

University of the Arts Exhibition

Today was the hanging of our collaborative work "Caution Combustible" with Philadelphia artist Ben Volta. These works were created last Spring in our 7th period Art and Landscape class through a grant from the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The pieces were hung in the education wing of the PMA then OneShot Coffee in Northern Liberties prior to landing at UArts Gallery 817 @ 211 S. Broad Street for the next month. There is currently talks of the main work moving permanently to the main school district building on 440 N. Broad St.

Homework 2

Check out Philadelphia artist and teacher Rubens Ghenov's art blog and look at the post/work titled "By The Rivers of Babylon"
CLICK HERE TO SEE RUBENS' WORK

During Preclass you will be asked to write a brief description (describing the images, the medium used) as well as your personal interpretation and critique of the piece.

Periods 1-4 are continuing to work dilligently on their Postcard from the future. Students are finalizing their designs in thumbnail sketches and begining to apply materials and build their foundation.

***Here is some great reference material for inspiration-
The Griffin and Sabine Trilogy Gallery
Found Magazine

Periods 5 & 6 are blazing ahead with their black and white forgeries which will be part of an exchange with a High School art program in Queens New York. Each student will send one BW line drawing to another student who will base their drawing off of the one they recieved. We hope to propose an art showing at a coffee shop in center city to exhibit the artists work.

Enjoy.- McQuilling

Ladies and Gentlemen...

I proudly introduce to you the young artists of Art Room 122-
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Mr. McQuilling

Many of us are studying line as an art element, we are trying to experiment with the various forms it appears as a form of visual communication. I stumbled upon this on a website of a group of artists calling themselves the WOOSTER COLLECTIVE. I thought it was an interesting and playful use of line and the artists surroundings. Notice how they were able to get us to look at an ordinary sight in a different way. -McQuilling

Homework 1

Hey guys, here is an artist who I thought you would enjoy and can learn from. Take a look at how well he utilizes every last bit of space he has with his paintings. This will be very useful for you with your first projects.
Describe the images you see in the painting.
Enjoy! -Mr. McQuilling

Jon Burgerman-click this

new new stuff thats about 2 go down tomorrow

We are about to be done with the folders. Soon we are going to start our new project. We are going to make postcards. It’s going to be about where we think we will be in the next 5 years or whatever describes our experiences. That’s what we will draw be illustrating. We will also make our own stamps. On the back we’re going to write to someone that hasn’t seen us in a while and tell them how we are and what we have been up to.

We can use any material that we want like magazines, paint, cut out words, etc.

-Ashley Ridgeway


Our first project is basically finishing a pattern on a post card. Its pretty cool because we get to create different movements, textures and shapes for this post card. The only materials we are using in this project are 2 post cards (because we are making two different ones connecting) and black permanent markers. This is going to be an exciting project for us, hopefully.

-Ha Nguyen

WELCOME

Artillery is a classroom blog run in collaboration with students from Northeast High School art students and Mr. McQuilling. We will be posting in and out of class discussions, events, work and ideas. Feel free to leave comments and let us know what you think! Have a great day

-Mr. McQuilling