Arts & Music Festival Drumming Parade

Thanks to the generosity of Ted Oppenheimer and his family, we were able to build drums and plan a school parade on the day of the Lane Art & Music Festival. Nani Agbeli came back to present Ghanaian drumming & dancing for the second year in a row. A huge thanks to Mr. Reed Flygt, our percussion teacher extraordinaire, and to Heather McQueen, our drum artist in residency, for a fantastic collaboration.

India A - National Art Portfolio Winner

India, a dedicated art major at Lane Tech, will be traveling to New York City next week to celebrate her award-winning portfolio at the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Hers is one of four portfolios from Illinois to be honored at a NYC gallery, then an awards ceremony at Carnegie Hall.

India has developed a truly original voice in her art during all her classes at Lane. I've described her style as "pop," "punk," "granny," & "feminist," and her art makes me think of the Chicago Imagists, and their fusing of the figurative with cartooning, compositing, and dadaism, among other veins of art. Her work represents her immersion in art classes at both Lane Tech and Marwen where she has dedicated a good chunk of her free time throughout high school. She will be attending the prestigious Cooper Union school in NYC this fall.

Her print below was created in Ms. Faletto's printmaking class and won a national gold medal. Her overall sculptural portfolio, created at Marwen and in our AP 3-D Design class, won a national silver. Congratulations, India! 

Tie Dye Days

After the portfolios, it was great to engage in some less serious art. We tie-dyed t-shirts, sheets, shawls, socks, and anything else we could get our hands on.

People's Choice Award

Angelica Z's portrait sculpture won the People's Choice Award at the Chicago All-City Show. Congratulations Angelica!

Vans Shoe Design Contest

 Jenny J's Design for "Art" Category - Henna

 Kristian R's Music Design

 Robin H's "Local Flavor - Chicago" Design

 

 Stephanie O's Surf Design

  

Lane Tech Group

All-City Art Show

Here are some examples of some Lane sculpture work recognized at 

Chicago's All-City Art Exhibition:

 Jack A

Ofelia D

 Angelica C

 Jasher G & Angelica Z

 Tori G

Angelica Z

Raku Firing

Carl & Weston, the amazing workshop leaders for our annual raku firing

Work is around 1900 degrees when we remove it with tongs. 

Glaze is like molten lava on the surface of the ceramic walls.

Ceramic work with traditional Japanese crackle glaze gets cooled quickly with water quenching, spraying, and old-fashioned blowing onto the surface. The cooled glaze quickly cracks and separates no longer fitting the surface, leaving black cracks along the piece where carbon from the fire darkens the clay. 

A post-firing reduction atmosphere happens when work is put into trashcans with combustible material, catching fire, then covered with lids, suffocating the work. The stubborn fire tries to keep burning, looking for oxygen in the glazes and clay and pulling out oxygen molecules, in turn creating metallic effects by transforming copper and other metallic oxides into copper. 

 Covering and cooling the work

Quenching in water and snow

Clay & Sculpture Scholastic Winners 2014

Congratulations to all the students who earned gold keys, silver keys, and honorable mentions in the Midwestern Regional competition of the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards! The following students from AP Sculpture took home over a couple dozen keys and certificates:

Super-Talented & Awesome-Students:
Front Row: Marissa, Robin, Marilyn, Torie, & Angelica Z
Back Row: Becky, Taylor, Jack, India, Vicky, Ofelia, Haley, Jose, Giana, Jenny & Shanali
Not pictured: Krystyna, Angelica C, and Piotr

Illinois Regional HS Portfolio Scholarship Exhibition

  Piotr J.'s Mythological Teapots

 

 

 Javier D & family at the group exhibition

Mr. Ceh - along with Celita, Javier, & Neomi - all scholarship winners!

Robin H Represents Lane Sculpture at Illinois Show

Robin created a series of zippered faces entitled "Secrets, Secrets are No Fun." Her work was exhibited along with 4 other Lane students' art in a premier show of suburban and city high schools at the Illinois Regional Art Exhibition. Each school was invited to submit five works in the categories of painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, and graphic design.

 

 

Hilton Contemporary Gallery Exhibit

Lane alum Alex Agudo invited our wheel throwing & AP Sculpture students to exhibit in a show along with him at the Hilton Asmus Contemporary Gallery in the River North Art District. In a "Homage to Gene" Exhibition, students created ceramic works in response to up-cycled works by Alex from vintage jewelry.