WHS Art Show Brings Together Student Art From Across the District

is holding its 24^th annual student art show at the high school. The show opened on May 25 and runs through May 26 with student artwork from kindergarten through 12^th grade.

Each elementary student in the district has at least one piece of art in the show, and the middle school and high school art students are well represented in many different media, including live music playing during the event.

Ami Amada, art teacher at and , said, “We have an amazing art department.”

Her big project in both schools was a mask project where students have their faces plastered, and each student creates his or her own myth to go with the mask.

Because the show is districtwide, Amada said, “I can see where my students have led.”

David Miller, chair of the high school art department and coordinator for the show, said people in the professional art education field judge the high school pieces.

This year, judges included someone from the Kansas City Art Institute, an art education professor at Moore College of Art and a person from the art admissions department at Delaware College of Art and Design.

Judges not only judge the art, but also talk with the students about their work to find out what they were thinking when creating their pieces.

Amelija Sorg-Taylor, a high school senior, focuses on abstract pieces and has been working on combining realistic and the abstract. She said she has been into art since she was little, and she would often watch her dad as he worked on oil paintings of cities. She added that art class was always the class she looked forward to at school.

Sorg-Taylor is headed to Temple University in the fall.

Theresa Sadowski, a ninth-grader at Wissahickon, had two pieces in the show, one from the Mixed Media I class and one from Art Club. Sadowski said she has always liked to draw since she was little.

Garion McCauley, a senior, has some large-scale cartoon pieces and a long animation piece in the show. McCauley said he has always wanted to work in animation, but is not a writer. The animation he created is a skateboarding story. McCauley himself skates; however, he did not perform any of the stunts in the piece.

McCauley said he has always been into art and comes from a creative family. He is headed to University of the Arts in Philadelphia in the fall to study animation.

The student art show is open again Thursday, May 26, from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. in the gymnasium.