The artwork is part of two separate projects that will decorate the school.
By DENISE DICK
VINDICATOR STAFF WRITER
BOARDMAN — Some Boardman High School students will leave a legacy of art at the school when they graduate next month.
Members of the high school's National Art Honor Society and its Spanish 4 classes are creating murals to leave their mark on their soon-to-be alma mater.
They are separate projects, but both will leave the now-blank hallways with colorful works of art.
The art students chose a collage of great literary works to hang in the stairwell in the school's academic wing.
Spanish students replicated works from famous Spanish artists to decorate the hallway in the foreign language area.
"There are two murals in the school that have been there since the '70s," said senior Matt Liptak, president of the art honor society. "But they're about science and math. I've always loved literature, loved art and other classes."
Their mural embodies both art in its written and visual forms.
Edie Davidson, art teacher and honor society adviser, said the students chose six literary classics combined into a collage.
"They chose books that they read during their time in high school," Davidson said.
Choosing the topic
Liptak said the group collaboratively chose the literary works to be represented in the mural.
"We chose the classics," he said.
The eyes of "The Great Gatsby" cover provide the main focus, with symbols from "Moby Dick," "The Catcher in the Rye," "To Kill a Mockingbird," "Of Mice and Men" and "The Scarlet Letter" filling in around it. A silhouette of William Shakespeare adorns the mural's bottom, and to represent the students' generation, there's a winged quidditch ball from the Harry Potter books.
Liptak and fellow senior art student Danielle Deley sketched the design onto four large Masonite panels.
The students started painting — with latex house paint donated by the Tul family of Northeast Ohio Paint and Equipment — over spring break.
Maria Mooney, another senior art honor society member, said they've been working to complete the mural after school. Mooney, Liptak, Deley and Jenna Buffa, another senior, have logged many hours, paintbrushes in hand, trying to finish the mural before the end of the school year.
"We wanted to leave our mark," Liptak said.
Murals completed
Up in the school's foreign language department, seniors in teacher Terry Shears Spanish 4 classes just completed three murals to hang in the hallway.
Last year, Shears' students completed two murals that remain in his classroom.
He selected the works of Spanish and Mexican artists and divided each panel into 16 rectangles, giving each student a rectangle to complete as a piece of the painting.
This year's students completed Joan Miro's "The Farm" and "Prades, the Village," and "Zapatistas" by Clemente Orozco. Last year's students worked on paintings by Pablo Picasso and Diego Rivera.
Seniors Rebecca Theophanous, Marissa Borosky and Alex Marsco don't consider themselves artistic and initially didn't like the idea of replicating the paintings.
"I think at first we were really angry — it just seemed like none of use considered ourselves artistic," Marsco said.
Warmed up to idea
But the idea grew on them and as work progressed, they actually enjoyed it, she said.
Theophanous said the painting grew out of a unit the classes studied of Spanish-speaking artists.
The most difficult part was working together.
Borosky, who worked on Miro's "The Farm," experienced that because her panel was along a joint in the painting panels. She and the students with the adjoining panels had to make sure their respective work lined up into one painting.
Shears said the works, a bit smaller than mural by the art students, will line the hallways behind Plexiglas.
"All of the kids signed the back and we're going to get plaques so one day, they can bring their grandchildren in to show them what they did when they were in school," the Spanish teacher said.
Sunday, May 13, 2007
The artwork is part of two separate projects that will decorate the school.
By DENISE DICK
VINDICATOR STAFF WRITER
BOARDMAN — Some Boardman High School students will leave a legacy of art at the school when they graduate next month.
Members of the high school's National Art Honor Society and its Spanish 4 classes are creating murals to leave their mark on their soon-to-be alma mater.
They are separate projects, but both will leave the now-blank hallways with colorful works of art.
The art students chose a collage of great literary works to hang in the stairwell in the school's academic wing.
Spanish students replicated works from famous Spanish artists to decorate the hallway in the foreign language area.
"There are two murals in the school that have been there since the '70s," said senior Matt Liptak, president of the art honor society. "But they're about science and math. I've always loved literature, loved art and other classes."
Their mural embodies both art in its written and visual forms.
Edie Davidson, art teacher and honor society adviser, said the students chose six literary classics combined into a collage.
"They chose books that they read during their time in high school," Davidson said.
Choosing the topic
Liptak said the group collaboratively chose the literary works to be represented in the mural.
"We chose the classics," he said.
The eyes of "The Great Gatsby" cover provide the main focus, with symbols from "Moby Dick," "The Catcher in the Rye," "To Kill a Mockingbird," "Of Mice and Men" and "The Scarlet Letter" filling in around it. A silhouette of William Shakespeare adorns the mural's bottom, and to represent the students' generation, there's a winged quidditch ball from the Harry Potter books.
Liptak and fellow senior art student Danielle Deley sketched the design onto four large Masonite panels.
The students started painting — with latex house paint donated by the Tul family of Northeast Ohio Paint and Equipment — over spring break.
Maria Mooney, another senior art honor society member, said they've been working to complete the mural after school. Mooney, Liptak, Deley and Jenna Buffa, another senior, have logged many hours, paintbrushes in hand, trying to finish the mural before the end of the school year.
"We wanted to leave our mark," Liptak said.
Murals completed
Up in the school's foreign language department, seniors in teacher Terry Shears Spanish 4 classes just completed three murals to hang in the hallway.
Last year, Shears' students completed two murals that remain in his classroom.
He selected the works of Spanish and Mexican artists and divided each panel into 16 rectangles, giving each student a rectangle to complete as a piece of the painting.
This year's students completed Joan Miro's "The Farm" and "Prades, the Village," and "Zapatistas" by Clemente Orozco. Last year's students worked on paintings by Pablo Picasso and Diego Rivera.
Seniors Rebecca Theophanous, Marissa Borosky and Alex Marsco don't consider themselves artistic and initially didn't like the idea of replicating the paintings.
"I think at first we were really angry — it just seemed like none of use considered ourselves artistic," Marsco said.
Warmed up to idea
But the idea grew on them and as work progressed, they actually enjoyed it, she said.
Theophanous said the painting grew out of a unit the classes studied of Spanish-speaking artists.
The most difficult part was working together.
Borosky, who worked on Miro's "The Farm," experienced that because her panel was along a joint in the painting panels. She and the students with the adjoining panels had to make sure their respective work lined up into one painting.
Shears said the works, a bit smaller than mural by the art students, will line the hallways behind Plexiglas.
"All of the kids signed the back and we're going to get plaques so one day, they can bring their grandchildren in to show them what they did when they were in school," the Spanish teacher said.
Sunday, May 13, 2007
Some Boardman High School students will leave a legacy of art at the school when they graduate next month.
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