A Happy Holidays & Closer to the Deadline

At BHS art club we are all like family. We all talk together and work together as a team. As we approach the winter holidays the deadline to our biggest project of the year approaches without much notice. We see that during the holidays everybody grows more excited for the anticipated winter break. This is why we are working harder then ever to get our projects going in time for the big revealing in the next few months. The project that we will be doing will be titled "What's Your Cause?" and it's sure to be a big hit! We cannot explain the details of the project now, just know that it will be amazing! We look forward to the next two or three months of hard work and talk of the major project. 

A New Year & Face Painting!

Art club is back and already doing things to help our community! Already, people from art club have volunteered at elementary schools for face painting during a Halloween party. Now we are getting ready for Thanksgiving and the holidays by working on a secret project to be announced later! I hope that you all are looking forward to a great new year. Remember all of the things that you are thankful for and have a great Thanksgiving!

These pictures are from the BHS Art Club face painting at a local elementary school. Thank you to our wonderful volunteers!

Glow Night

Back in January, Mrs. Kaiser and one of our Art Club members designed the posters for Glow Night at the Blackstone Library in Branford. Using Photoshop and InDesign, the two created a wonderful poster that advertised the evening event of wonder and literature. Thank you to the two who worked on this marvelous poster ! It came out great.

The Memory Project

Following the success of the Sliney Workshop, the Art Club began its search for the next organization that the members would contribute to. During our pondering, Mrs. Kaiser revealed to us a touching video that she had found on a project that has high school artists creating portraits of orphan children around the world. This organization, known as the Memory Project, sends high school teachers pictures of orphans from various countries; each photograph costs $15, and the portraits are then sent to the children to keep ! All of our members are working very hard on this project, and we will be sending them in at the end of May. For more information on this organization, click here.

 

Enriching the Community in an Artistic Way

The Tisko Workshop was a great success, leaving the Art Club with a grand profit. Because we had made several hundreds of dollars, we decided unanimously to donate some of our gains to the community in some way. The club brainstormed for a while, throwing around many different names of organizations to whom we could aid in an artistic way. Our advisor suggested the Branford Community Dining House, and all the members agreed that this place would be a great place to enrich artistically. We donated $100 worth of art supplies to the organization, and one of our members was able to deliver the supply basket along with Mrs. Kaiser.





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Murphy Workshop

Our third and final workshop of the school year took place at Mary T. Murphy Elementary School in Branford. Just like our previous two events, we received a largely positive response from both the children and the parents, and we raised a large amount of money for the club. We are all very grateful to have been able to share our love of art with the younger students in the community; I believe that both sides equally enjoyed this wonderful experience. We hope to create new and exciting projects for next year's workshops ! Thank you to all the Art Club members who were able to attend the workshops and help out ! Thank you as well to all the children who attended for your enthusiasm and your stellar behavior that gave us the strength to work our hardest during these events !

Sliney Workshop

Following the success of the Tisko Workshop, we immediately scheduled another event at Sliney Elementary School this time. The projects were the same here, but there was the task of teaching new students. Thankfully, this project was also a success, earning us a hefty profit that would be used for one of our largest projects that will be coming up in the next few posts.