Oxford's student art show gets rave reviews
OXFORD – The Oxford Academy School district’s “Second Annual End of Year Art Show” at 6 on the Square (6OTS) has received rave reviews. Art made by Pre-K through high school students demonstrate their advanced understanding of techniques and wonderful creative expressions. During the show’s reception, the art display was the star attraction but the teachers and their students were beaming and with good reason. Subsequent visitors will find that the show is both enlightening, impressive, and gratifying when seeing the rich level of art being produced in school today.
6OTS, the local music and art venue, hosted an opening reception for the student’s end of year art show on June 3, which attracted around one hundred students, friends and family members to the event. Kid-friendly refreshments, music, spotlights, and the elegant nature of the setting (with original Walter Gurbo modern art painted on the back walls), heightened the excitement of the occasion. The Oxford Academy art teachers, Katie Thomas - Primary School; Charity Gipp - Middle School, and Joni Eaton - High School, were on-hand describing some of the outstanding student’s artwork and the assignments that motivated them.
The broad range of art pieces cover line drawings to abstract paintings. Some of the works are Aboriginal prints, calligraphy, tessellations/mosaics, mandalas, and more. Educational study projects covered perspective, color (warm/cool; mixing primaries into secondary and tertiary; and shading; material use such as watercolors, acrylics, oil pastels, pencils, textured metal, and more. Students were also challenged with doing their own interpretation of favorite artists’ work such as Haring, Degas, Monet, Manet, and others. Some just expressed their muse, but what-ever the project, their joy was evident.
This art show was juried by the Oxford teachers who chose the best art by their students. Several of these pieces have met with additional acclaim. Maggie Squier, Katie Thomas’ fourth grade student, made an impressive perspective drawing that became cover-art for the annual, Kites and Kings magazine, published by the Catskill Area Study Council. Hailey Branham, senior student of Joni Eaton, received a 6OTS first place ribbon and Hoppie’s gift certificate, for her Monet inspired Water Lilies. Senior, Brooke Noble’s paintings on canvas have garnered her one of this year’s Francis K. Wilcox Scholarship awards for Emerging Young Artists. Look for her artwork at the Colorscape Chenango Art Festival.
The show will be up until June 22, and will be open to the public when 6OTS is open. (Doors are open one-hour before and during performances.) 6OTS is located at 6 LaFayette Park in the heart of downtown Oxford.
For inquiries contact 6 On The Square - info@6onthesquare.org ; phone: 843-OTS6 (6876). Visit 6OTS on the web - www.6onthesquare.org - to view performance schedules.
6OTS, the local music and art venue, hosted an opening reception for the student’s end of year art show on June 3, which attracted around one hundred students, friends and family members to the event. Kid-friendly refreshments, music, spotlights, and the elegant nature of the setting (with original Walter Gurbo modern art painted on the back walls), heightened the excitement of the occasion. The Oxford Academy art teachers, Katie Thomas - Primary School; Charity Gipp - Middle School, and Joni Eaton - High School, were on-hand describing some of the outstanding student’s artwork and the assignments that motivated them.
The broad range of art pieces cover line drawings to abstract paintings. Some of the works are Aboriginal prints, calligraphy, tessellations/mosaics, mandalas, and more. Educational study projects covered perspective, color (warm/cool; mixing primaries into secondary and tertiary; and shading; material use such as watercolors, acrylics, oil pastels, pencils, textured metal, and more. Students were also challenged with doing their own interpretation of favorite artists’ work such as Haring, Degas, Monet, Manet, and others. Some just expressed their muse, but what-ever the project, their joy was evident.
This art show was juried by the Oxford teachers who chose the best art by their students. Several of these pieces have met with additional acclaim. Maggie Squier, Katie Thomas’ fourth grade student, made an impressive perspective drawing that became cover-art for the annual, Kites and Kings magazine, published by the Catskill Area Study Council. Hailey Branham, senior student of Joni Eaton, received a 6OTS first place ribbon and Hoppie’s gift certificate, for her Monet inspired Water Lilies. Senior, Brooke Noble’s paintings on canvas have garnered her one of this year’s Francis K. Wilcox Scholarship awards for Emerging Young Artists. Look for her artwork at the Colorscape Chenango Art Festival.
The show will be up until June 22, and will be open to the public when 6OTS is open. (Doors are open one-hour before and during performances.) 6OTS is located at 6 LaFayette Park in the heart of downtown Oxford.
For inquiries contact 6 On The Square - info@6onthesquare.org ; phone: 843-OTS6 (6876). Visit 6OTS on the web - www.6onthesquare.org - to view performance schedules.
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