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.

Homage to Nelson Mandela

by Ryan L

Underglaze Thowing Rings!

This project has been so much fun! We have been applying colored slip with brushes and by hand onto bowls as we spin them out on the wheel. It brings back the lost art and joy of finger painting!

Pumpkin Carvings

The students just all ganged up on me one day and forced me to let them carve pumpkins for two days. I usually proudly refuse to do holiday art projects, but they broke me down...

Dia de Los Muertos Field Trip

We went on a tour of the annual Day of the Dead Exhibit at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago. After touring an excellent display of installations, ofrendas, sculptures and prints, we had a fortunate opportunity to work with the father & son Paredes artists from Puebla, Mexico, who create miniature scenes with calacas. Students were given boxes, clay, wire, & other media to construct a skeleton scene of their own in the art lab.

Daniel & Miguel Paredes

Students getting ready to make art

A variety of craft artists were offering demonstrations in the main hall. 

 Juana Gomez Martinez Ceramic Vessels & Animals

Jacobo Angeles Ojeda Wood Carvings

No trip to Pilsen would be complete without touring the neighborhood murals, then stopping by an authentic Mexican restaurant, bakery, and candy shop.  

Stenciled Cups

When the cups were leather hard, students cut out paper stencil designs from paper with utility knives, then dampened them with sponges to stick to the work. Once the edges adhered, underglaze was applied to create positive and negative images.

Ravenswood Artwalk Demonstrations & Exhibit

Students from Lane Tech demonstrated their talent at the Ravenswood ArtWalk.

Clay & Arts Festival - Friday, May 17th

Save the date for this year's Clay & Arts Festival! It's sure to be a wild evening with dozens of ways to get your hands dirty making art, from ceramics to tie-dye and more.  Also enjoy hilarious clay competitions, great music from violin to punk, deans and teachers in a clay slip dunk tank, an art equipment raffle, student exhibits, food, and more! Fun for all ages, young children to seniors; open to the public.

To cap off the night at 8 pm, Ghanaian artist Nani Agbeli will lead a drumming & dance performance that is not to be missed! We will drum and march our way from the festival into the Lane auditorium for an interactive performance - tickets only $5!

More Information about the Events at the Clay & Arts Festival:

ART ACTIVITIES

Try your hand at screen printed t-shirts, spray paint art and stenciling, tie-dye, the potters wheel, photo booths, air brush tattoos, face painting, mosaics, beaded earrings, doodling, sculpture, painting, printmaking, henna painting, hair dye, make a mug, clay faces, pop-up books, sidewalk chalk & kids’ art booths! 

RAFFLE

Great art prizes will be raffled off to lucky winners at the end of the night.

CLAY OLYMPICS

Watch students compete in crazy mud competitions! Tallest cylinder, left/right-handed duo, blind throwing, cylinder stacks, portrait look-a-likes, foot throwing, teapot teams, mud arm wrestling, and giant coil pots! Competitions every half hour with gold, silver, and bronze medals.

SLIP DUNK TANK

Sink administrators, teachers, and students in a clay slip pit! Featured guest Mr. Wendorf!

ENTERTAINMENT

An awesome array of Lane Tech musicians and performers!

FOOD

Kiln-baked cookies & mud pies, drinks, and pizza

ART SALE

Professional, teacher, and student work for sale

EXHIBIT

View the amazing talent of Lane Tech art students, including a senior show of art majors and advanced placement students.