BHHS Art Students "Perform Live"

Each year, teachers select fine arts students to spend time creating art in the Main Commons of BHHS for all to see, poetically referred to as “Art in the Halls.”

This year, 16 students from grades 9-12 highlighted their talents in ceramics, drawing, metal working and jewelry making, painting, digital art, and mixed media. Here is what some of them had to say: 

 Sarah Raitt (grade 11) Mixed Media: I’ve been doing a lot of art. Most of my classes are downstairs in the art wing. I’m in advanced ceramics and advanced painting right now. My project is called “No Mistakes.” It’s a section of my portfolio that’s [also] called “No Mistakes.” It has paintings in it. Ceramics in it. Jewelry in it. I also made the bracelet. There are no mistakes in art.

Gillian Thorton (grade 10) Ceramics: I’m making puzzle pieces that involve the elements of air, water, earth, and fire, and they’re all going to connect in a big puzzle out of clay. This is going to be earth and I already made water, so I have more to do. I’m in advanced ceramics, and the topic for our project is these four elements. I wanted to do puzzle pieces before he even gave the topic, so I just incorporated it in. I like to be creative and have super detail. It will take so long, though; it might continue next year because it took me three weeks to finish one piece. Some of them are harder than others.

Maggie Cochran (grade 9) Digital Art: My digital art contains two characters that I really like from a show called “Inanimate Insanity,” mePhone four and mePhone 3GS, on a train. The scene is made up, kind of what I think might happen based on the show. I took digital art last semester and I really liked it.

Julia Mahoney (grade 12) Acrylic Painting: I’m working on a painting of a deer in an old overgrown kind of European [space] with the arch and old castles in a courtyard, a bunch of flowers and stuff. For this assignment, we just rolled a bunch of prompt dice and had to come up with something. I rolled mammals, old, and purple - those are some of them, and that’s why I’ve got purple flowers, the deer, the old building. I love it. That’s kind of a fun assignment because I really like Legend of Zelda type of stuff, and I really like the architecture and old world buildings that are in there. It really is neat to me, so I’m kind of taking inspiration from that.

Raegan Bewick (grade 11) was working on a pencil drawing of a horse leading a man who had his eyes covered. This piece is called “Vulnerability” and it’s for her AP Art portfolio. 

In jewelry, Will Bojoll (grade 12) was working on placing royal blue glass beads in delicate settings for a necklace, and Reid Gaunt (grade 10) was wrapping wire metal around a knitting needle, which offered the perfect circumference to make jump rings for a very intricate metal chain. He used the jewelry saw to cut each tiny piece, and needle nose and flat pliers to finalize the shape of each ring as he connected them.

Eva Welham (grade 12) was working on “Lipstick on a Pig,” a colored pencil drawing which was meant to relay how anxiety develops over the years and as you get older. The pig represents not feeling confident in yourself. 

Annelies Vandenplas (grade 12) displayed a large ceramic vase with several thick leaves that protruded from the sides of the vase, which she was still refining. Following the assignment for advanced ceramics - the four elements - this will be earth. Vandenplas’ intent is to show nature through vases. Once the main ceramic piece is complete, she plans on using a palate of green glazes so that they better represent leaves. 

Aleksandr Bovdur (grade 11) worked the pottery wheel making various bowls. Modvur’s job that day was mostly for demonstration purposes, but he is also in advanced ceramics and doing the element-themed project.