2014 S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 4 FREE

Our newest teacher is Kevin Cook who is teaching photography. He is a graduate of Temple University with a

degree in Film & Media Arts and Journalism. His Master’s is in photojournalism from University of

Missouri.

Dickson continues as our Digital Filmmaking instructor. Erika is teaching Ceramics, Art History, &

Printmaking,. Kirby is teaching Drawing & Painting, Design, Life Drawing, & AP Art..Quinn is teaching

Digital Design.

www.kirbyfredendall.com

kevincookphoto.samexhibit.com

http://www.sorensenfilm.com/

www.thecaffeinemachine.tumblr.com

Your teachers in the Fine Art Department

DICKSON SORENSON

ERIKA BONNER QUINN WATERS KIRBY FREDENDALL

SOLEBURY F INE ARTSWELCOME TO ANOTHER CREATIVE YEAR!

KEVIN COOK

LIFE DRAWING

STUDENTS IN LIFE DRAWING BEGIN THEIR YEAR WORKING ON SHORT SKETCHES CALLED “GESTURE DRAWINGS.” THESE QUICK STUDIES HELP THE STUDENTS TO “SEE” THE FIGURE IN ITS ENTIRETY AS A SUM OF ITS PARTS. IN 30 SECONDS, 1 MINUTE, AND 2 MINUTE INTERVALS THEY DRAW THE GESTURE OF THE WHOLE FIGURE. AS THE CLASS PROGRESSES THE LENGTH OF THE POSE LENGTHENS. THESE PIECES WERE COMPLETED IN 10 MINUTE USING MARKER ON NEWSPRINT PAPER.

top left to right:Charlotte MartinCharlotte MartinKate Voynow

middle:Alex BabickiIsabella Blasucci

BEGINNING PAINTING & DRAWING

BEGINNING PAINTING & DRAWING STUDENTS START BY LEARNING VERY BASIC SKILLS, SUCH

AS CREATING STRAIGHT AND PARALLEL LINES, BALANCED ELLIPSES, AND CUBES. THEY THEN USE THESE BASIC SKILLS TO CREATE DRAWINGS FROM ACTUAL OBJECTS, TAKING CARE TO OBSERVE THE OBJECTS AS A WHOLE GROUP USING POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE SPACE. THESE PIECES WERE CREATED WITH CHARCOAL ON NEWSPRINT PAPER.

Mei Rizzo, Ben GabinetAspen Souder, Abigail MottNate WeisKevin Wang

BEGINNING P & D, CONT. . .

Andrei Benoliet, Ellie HermanDaniel Wang Olivia Lutz, Ellie Herman, Haolun Liu

WHAT HAVE OUR GRADUATES BEEN UP TO IN THE ARTS?

Hayley has been working in

Philadelphia at Studio

Incamminati. Its founder is

Nelson Shanks, who teaches

academic contemporary

realism in various mediums

such as oil painting, graphite,

charcoal, and sometimes

plastiline. She worked from the

figure 5 days a week for 6

hours each day. More recently

she has been interested in

plant/fungus botany illustration

and is also working on more

craft oriented art forms such

as sewing and knitting.

Hayley Owens

Class of 2011

FEATURED ARTISTS

1. HAYLEY OWENS

2. TESSA MANIA

3. ANNIE PARHAM

4. THOMAS SHAPIRO

5. ASHLEY COLON

Tessa Mania is a senior at The School of the Art

Institute of Chicago, where she is working on a

degree in fashion design. Her work as a fashion

designer focuses on sustainability, using all organic

and fair trade materials, as well as working with

socially linked products whenever possible.

Conceptually her work draws on her family’s own

history in the garment trade, while addressing

larger issues of labor and the contemporary

cultural value of hand made. The attached image is

of her junior collection which showed in May at

SAIC's The Walk annual fashion show, in downtown

Chicago's Millennium Park. Tessa spends most of

her summers interning in the New York fashion

world and plans on moving there after graduation.

Tessa Mania

Class of 2011

ANNIE PARHAM“WATER FLOWS LIKE IMAGINATION. WITH THIS SERIES OF WATERCOLORS, I WANT

TO TAP INTO THE VIVID IMAGINATION OF MY CHILDHOOD” CLASS OF 2009

ANNIE PARHAM GRADUATED WITH A BACHELORS IN FINE ARTS FROM GREEN MOUNTAIN COLLEGE IN 2013. SHE IS CURRENTLY LIVING AND MAKING ART IN DORSET, VERMONT. SHE WORKS WITH VARIOUS MEDIUMS INCLUDING WATER COLORS, PHOTOGRAPHY, AS WELL AS PAPIER-MÂCHÉ. ANNIEAPARHAM.COM

THOMAS SHAPIROCLASS OF 2009

THIS PAST YEAR I HAVE BEEN ADDRESSING  THE NOTION OF WHAT IT IS LIKE TO BE QUEER IN THE US AND BEING FURTHER INTROSPECTIVE AS TO HOW BEING QUEER HAS MADE ME THE PERSON I AM TODAY. MY WORK ADDRESSES THE COMMODIFICATION AND MAINSTREAMING OF QUEER CULTURE, SELF-LOATHING AND SUBVERSION OF SEXUALITY, AND THE BEAUTY OF CAMP.

THE WORK HINGES ON SURREAL DREAM SPACES- BOTH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL, THE BLURRING OF REALITY, AND PRODUCING ODD NARRATIVE.

ASHLEY COLONCLASS OF 2010

I HAVE BEEN TAKING CLASSES THAT CHALLENGE ME AND KEEP ART IN MY LIFE. 

I TOOK A MURAL PAINTING CLASS AND USED MY SECTION OF THIS GROUP MURAL TO PAINT THE EGGS OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS FROM STATES I HAD BEEN TO. THE

MURAL WAS PUT UP IN THE LIBRARY.