Visual Arts Activities
The Annual HSMS Art Show was held Wednesday, May 11th in the library. There were almost 300 paintings, drawings, and sculptures.
Top award ribbons were given to artists in recognition of their achievement in art. Attendees cast their vote for their favorite artist nominating Senior Kaidynce Harris as this year's High School winner.
Seventh grader Josiah Dyke took top honor for the Middle School.
This special event is sponsored every year by our local women's philanthropic organization Tri Kappa. Every year Nancy West makes the show a hit by setting up a table with homemade treats and drinks for everyone. She's been representing Tri Kappa for over a decade. Her kind, giving nature brings a sense of community to the show and represents Tri Kappa's support of art and culture.
The top award winners were:
Eli Bryant - Freshman
Talyce Vidal - Sophomore
Carmen Gonzalez - Junior
Kaidydnce Harris - Senior
Macy Jones - Junior
Morgan Govero - Senior
Alanna Hobbs - Sophomore
Eli Bryant - Freshman
Talyce Vidal - Sophomore
Carmen Gonzalez - Junior
Kaidydnce Harris - Senior
Macy Jones - Junior
Morgan Govero - Senior
Alanna Hobbs - Sophomore
We have so many talented artists in our school! We are very fortunate to have Ms. Gacsko as our Art teacher! She does a fantastic job organizing the art show each year!
Ms. Gacsko’s high school students learned about the anatomy of the heart and used it as inspiration for their own unique design.
Narrative Art
High School students read and discussed the Scholastic Art Magazine: American Storytellers: Featuring artists Faith Ringgold Carmen, Lomas Garza, and Pablita Velarde in preparation for their narrative artwork.
They also discussed Kedar Nelson’s painting "After The Storm” that celebrates humanities to rise and support each other and move toward the promise of a future after the pandemic.
This year every art student created a masked pencil self-portrait and wrote about their experience coming back to school during the pandemic.
Presley wrote about her drawing.....
" My thoughts on this virus is to stay safe. Although we may not love these masks, we need to keep each other safe. In the pencil drawing
I am not smiling because I am not happy about the virus or the masks. I think that this piece represents what we are all going through and what
the world has come to."
August 2020
" My thoughts on this virus is to stay safe. Although we may not love these masks, we need to keep each other safe. In the pencil drawing
I am not smiling because I am not happy about the virus or the masks. I think that this piece represents what we are all going through and what
the world has come to."
August 2020
Portraits are Grades 6 - 12
Ms. Gacsko's 6th Grade Art Class makes a positive difference in our community through their food drive donations!
Sonoco Safety Posters, from our talented and creative Lancer students!
With all the special circumstances going on this year and since we are unable to do the pizza party, we will be considering all participants’ winners. Each participating student will receive a $25 gift card. We are fine with mailing them out to each student if you can provide their addresses. We are hoping we can get back on track next year. Please thank the students for their efforts.” Sonoco
Background Information for Sonoco
By Julie Gacsko, HS/MS Art Teacher
The Sonoco plant and its workers are very important to the economy and our community. Over the years they have given our school a lot of money to support a variety of programs including the Renaissance Achievement Program, sports, and the arts. Many years ago, our school began to think of ways that we could show Sonoco our appreciation for their support.
We decided to focus on something that matters to them. Safety is Sonoco’s #1 priority. They have a tremendous record of keeping their workers safe from injury on the job. We decided that all of the high school art students would create posters to be hung around the factory to remind workers to be safe. This is the 15th year EHS students have taken a personal interest in helping out the community by sending a positive message to others.
To make things a little more interesting....Sonoco makes it a contest to choose the top 12 posters . All of their employees get to cast votes for the best posters. Toward the end of the school year they come to the school to meet students, bringing lunch, grab bags of sweet treats, and cash prizes. It is an event that everyone who participates looks forward to celebrating.
A group of art students visited the newly renovated Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University. With over 45,000 objects, it is considered one of the largest holdings of art of any American university art museum. Photos include a docent led tour, Cheyenne Tabor's favorite painting, a fun photo and a group photo with the giant, red 21-foot Indiana Arc.
Ms. Gacsko’s High School students were working on acrylic paintings inspired by Cubism.
Cubism was a revolutionary new approach to representing reality invented in around 1907–08 by artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. They brought different views of subjects (usually objects or figures) together in the same picture, resulting in paintings that appear fragmented and abstracted.
