Day 168 - BHS Students in Photosynthesis Show at the Griffin Museum of Photography - BHS Principal's Blog

This post originally appeared on BHS Principal Sullivan's Blog

BHS and WHS student meet with Cheryl St. Onge earlier in the year.

BHS Teacher Ms. Djordjevic's second and third-year photography students were invited to be a part of the annual "Photosynthesis" show at the Griffin Museum of Photography, along with students from Winchester High School. In developing a portfolio of work that communicated a sense of self and space, the students met earlier in the year with visiting artists Andrew Mroczek and Cheryle St. Onge to help define their own unique and personal points of view. They also met with curator Alison Nordstrom (formerly of the George Eastman House) to select the final pieces to be presented at the Griffin Museum of Photography for the 12th annual Photosynthesis show. 

The opening for the photography exhibit is this Thursday, June 8th from 7:00-8:30pm. Feel free to join us to view student work from Burlington High School and Winchester High School and have a chance to speak with the student artists about their work. The following students are participating in the show and would love to see you there:

Julia Cannalonga

Mia Celik

Jalina Pedersen

Taylor Tabor

Katherine Scott

Angela DeSousa

Yasmine Charrak

Kristina Costa

Jessica James

Serina Khalifa

Amanda McCombs

Avyanna Monroe

Christina Pesiridis

The Griffin Museum is at 67 Shore Road, Winchester.

More information can be found about the show via this link: http://griffinmuseum.org/show/photosynthesis-xii/

Day 134 - The Annual New York City Art Field Trip - Ms. Djordjevic - BHS Art Dept.

This post originally appeared on Ms. Djordjevic's site

This year Mr. Mistler and I escorted 49 fantastic art students on a trip to MoMA (the Museum of Modern Art) and the galleries in Soho, NYC. It is one very long day of travel starting at 6:30am and ending at nearly 11pm, but every year it is worth it to watch our students see art that they have studied and looked at on computer screens and actually have a chance to experience the works live and in-person. New York is host to some of the most incredible art museums in the world and that is what prompted the BHS art department to start this annual field trip nearly a decade ago. The exhibits at MoMA are always impressive and this year we were able to see a lot of pop art (Warhol, Lichtenstein, and Rauschenberg), abstract expressionists including Pollock and Kandinsky, works of Van Gogh and Picasso, and many other amazing artists. 

Here are a few images of the trip taken by my students (and a few of my own) that I pulled from Instagram! 

Day 61 - Mia Celik Finalist in the 2014 RIT Photo Contest - Ms. Djordjevic - BHS Art Department

This originally appeared on Ms. Djordjevic's blog
This year the Rochester Institute of Technology offered a month-long Instagram based photography contest. All the students had to do was hashtag their images in order to be entered, and so I encouraged all of my students to enter their photos into the contest. I am proud to announce that Mia Celik, one of my sophomore Photography I students, was one of the 5 finalists out of more than 2,400 entries. Congratulations Mia!

Below is the winning photo and you can read more about the finalists and the contest here. 

Mia Celik :: Class of 2017 :: @mia_bhs

Day 5 - Instagram Winners Week 1 - Lexi Djordjevic, BHS Art Department

This post first appeared on Ms. Djordjevic's Blog 

Every year I have all of my photography students sign up for a school Instagram account and post a photo-a-day for every single school day. The idea is that their Instagram account becomes their visual journal—a way to communicate through imagery.  This week was our first week of Instagram and to say I was impressed by the imagery is a complete understatement! There were so many gorgeous photos I'm sure it was hard for my students to choose. On Fridays we vote in each class on their favorite images for the week. This week we had 11 winning photos...wow, that's a great start! Check out some of the beautiful and impressive Instagram photos below and congratulations to all of this week's winners.