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"No You Can't Go To The Bathroom, Because You're Bored and Don't Really Have To"
-Taylor Mali

Appomattox Regional Governor's School Teachers Art Exhibition

I will have various illustration pieces in this exhibition. You will also be able to see a sneak peak at some original art of my comic adaptation of "The Little Black Fish"


Artists:
David Bartlett
Patricia Lyons
B. Khodabandeh
Susann Whittier

Opening 6-9PM Nov. 11th at
Petersburg Area Art League
7 E. Old Street
Petersburg, VA 23803

Up through December 3rd

My students comment on the "Right To Education"

Work by my students using the prompt of the "Right To Education" from Poster For Tomorrow. Some of them need some polishing, but given the time constraints - and the difficult prompt - I think that they did well.

By Hoyle Wang


By Maya Shaw


By Kelli Moore
A question mark created by to figures overlapped. One studying (figure in white) and one working (figure in black).


By Melissa Lewis
Unfinished, but a cool concept. Helping people understand the feeling of illiteracy. She intended for the entire poster to look scrambled.


By Peter Farrow



By Claire Sulivan


By Sidney Tighlman


By Christopher Poupore


By Cristina Peters

A selection of student work.

Below is a selection of work by my students during this 2010-2011 school year. Also check out a selection of typographic comics developed during this school here.


By Claire Sullivan


By Kyle Rudd


By Hoyle Wang


By Hannah Bracey


By Kyle Rudd


By Kelli Moore


By Cristina Peters


By Zach Jackson


By Jake Alder


By Kara Yenkevich


By Davis Jeffrey


By Rachel Meyer


By Kyshia Chernesky


By Kyle Rudd


By Claire Sullivan


By Cristina Peters


By Ben Youngstone

Appomattox Regional Governor's School on First Friday

This coming First Friday (Nov 5th), three of my students will have work up at the Central Virginia Legal Aid Society, Inc. (101 W Broad Street Richmond, VA 23220).

The festivities will include sketch improv, dance improv, a string quartet as well as 2D & 3D art. The students represent Appomattox Regional Governor's School talents from various departments.

Below is my student's work: Three versions of a poster for an up and coming musical at the school, "The Drowsy Chaperone." Jacob Alder's poster was officially chosen to promote the event.

By Megan Kitchen


By Jacob Alder


By Rachel Meyer

ARGS Student Work

Appomattox Regional Governor's School is having it's annual Spring Visual Arts Gala.

Opening Reception
Friday For The Arts, May 14th 6-9pm.

At The Petersburg Area Art League
7 E. Old Street
Petersburg, VA 23803
804.861.4611

Opening Hours
Tues-Fri Noon-6PM
Sat 10AM-4PM




Below are Illustrator portraits created by a selection of my students as an exercise in the pen tool and clipping masks. This work will be exhibited at the exhibition.

By Jake Dorsey


By Henry Schick


By Lia Bayne


By Holly King


By Ben Copolillo



By Alex Kolb



Below are a selection of information graphics developed from data gathered by students about their day. These images are also intended to be exhibited at the exhibition.

By John-Charles Holmes


By Fasendria Mungin


By Kevin Zweerink


By Boon Snavely


By Jimmy Cloutier

My student wins a National Gold Key

My Appomattox Regional Governor School student, Keven Zweerink, recently was awarded a National Scholastic Gold Key for his theater poster (seen below). He will soon be traveling to New York for the award ceremony.



More about the Scholastic Awards can be found on their website.

Golden Key Awarded to Two of My Students

Two of my Appomottax Regional Governor School students received a Golden Key for the Regional Scholastic Arts and Writing Awards by National Judges. Students used knowledge of semiotics to develop posters for a school performance of "The Crucible."


by Keven Zweerink


by John-Charles Holmes

New Work: ARGS Dance logo design

I was commissioned to redesign the ARGS Dance logo. The criteria was to utilize an androgynous figure that doesn't imply a specific type of dance and exhibits movement. I began with various reference photos of the dance students that focused on movement via long exposures. Above is the first - somewhat working - manifestation of the logo. Garamond seemed like the best typeface to compliment the figures. It has serifs that are reminiscent of a human being's arched foot.

Since the logo's quality at smaller scales would probably be mediocre - due to a loss of detail - I chose to isolate one of the figures.


After speaking with some of the dance students; I began to redraw the chosen figure multiple times. Their main concern was that the figure was just "a little too abstract." Above exhibits a progression from abstraction to a more satisfactory version (I spared you the multiple versions and narrowed them down to three).


This is the close to final version of the logo. I am currently working with the legs by implementing alternate poses and directional strokes. The type is also being reconsidered in placement and image to type ratio. The above version might stay the same or change slightly. Any changes will appear on this blog.