Mustang Muse

Visual Arts Department 3/13/2017 Volume 2

Featured Artist

Our Featured Artist for March is Emma
Corbin McCoy! Emma is a creative soul who
always goes above and beyond with her
work. The piece to the right is only one of her
amazing pieces but it has inspired many staff
members to ask about commissions. Way to
go Emma!

Throw Me the Clay

Sculpture One:

This class has been busy! We have

learned The coil method and created our first
functional mug in the style of an artist we
researched. These are waiting to be glazed.

We have learned all about the glazing process

and had awesome results in our first glaze firing
of our expressive line rattles. Most of these have
traveled home already.

We have just finished a recycled artwork project

that focused on formalism in the style of Louise
Nevelson. Figure One is an example of this. It
involved using found objects, and assembling
them in an aesthetically pleasing way. The Figure 1: Emma Corbin McCoy,

projects were then painted with one color to Recycled Assemblage

emphasize the form and different textures of the Up Coming Events
found objects.
Artist in Residency:
AIR is Meeting in room 304
Monday- Thursday this month.
Sculpture Two:
Come when you are able. To get
connected to our remind text
Sculpture II Honors students have been
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engineering a functional kite! They have to take
into consideration not only visual aesthetics but Art Exhibition: Our art exhibition is
aerodynamic movement to keep the kite a flight. coming up on the 31st of March and
As they finish with the kites they will prepare for 1st of April. This will feature
artworks from all classes this
Potters wheel 101, which is up next!
semester as well as National Art
Honors Society students. We are
Paint me a picture pairing with the musical this
Art One: semester so feel free to stay for
MCHs presentation of Cinderella!
Mr. Gilliams Art One students have just
finished unit on Form & Value and just
beginning to investigate color through the use
of pastels on construction paper. (Figure 2 and
3)

Mr. Gilliams Art 1 students are now on to

creating personalized stoneware plates decorated
with colored slips. They are creating their forms
on press molds that they are designing.

Figure 2
Figure 3
 Ms. Taylors Art One is working on a three
dimensional letter, number, or symbol.
They will emphasizes balance, freestanding
sculpture, form, and space. The students
will understand the importance of all sides
of the sculpture in the round. They will,
also, to learn how balance is important in
sculpture.

Art Two:

In this class we have been working as a group to

created a large scale portrait. This process
involved a focus on scale and value. Each student
received two one inch squares and were asked to
blow them up to 6x6. When they had
completed their squares they attached them to a
gridded background. We critiqued as a class and
students made adjustments as necessary. Ms.
Wagoner loves her new artwork!

Figure 4: Ms. Wagoner by the Visual Arts Two students

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Art Three/Four

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time period of the Fauves. The Fauves focused on
newsletter on what is happening in color relationships, specifically using

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color wheel. These juxtaposed colors will be used
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Art Four Honors is also delving into art history
by adapting a famous artwork to become a
study in anatomy. They are exploring the
skeleton in different positions by removing the
figures from the famous work and replacing
them with a skeleton. They will mimic all other
aspects of the painting for a spooky twist on a
classic artwork.
 AiR Projects
Our Artist in Residency Projects have begun! We have had such great feedback from the community
and staff about these projects. We cannot wait to see these completed!

Project Dream Catcher:

Our Concept

The students designed this piece of public art to be a highly interactive representation of the MCHS
Community. It focuses on each individuals goals for the future. All those surveyed will be represented
by a balloon with their dream on it. These dreams will be placed inside of a 7 foot sculpture in the shape
of an octagon. At the bottom of this structure there will be a fan that blows around the dreams of the
community creating an illusion of a snow globe.

Our Progress

This project is in its infant stages. We have our materials and a design with all the
measurements. The wooden frame will begin to be created next week.

Project Light Bulb:

Our concept:

The purpose of this project is to inspire positive change in the Middle Creek culture. We wanted to
allow all of our student and MCHS Community to get involved in brainstorming the question, How
can we inspire positive change to Middle Creek High School?

The vision of the project is to recapture the beginnings of change in the concept of an idea. We took the
popular understanding of the lightbulb as a symbol of ideas and expanded upon it. We plan on creating
a large paper mache lightbulb to hang in the foyer of the school. This will be created from chicken wire
covered in a rice paper. We will also survey the different demographics for the school to begin to create
ideas for positive change in the school. These Ideas will be compiled and displayed on large posters
intended to look like post it notes around the central column in the entry way to the school. These ideas
will draw the eye upward through a thin rope that will hang between the lightbulb and the post it notes.

Our Progress:

We have been very successful with our time so far. We developed the structure for the whole lightbulb
this past week. This week we will begin applying the outer level of newspaper. If you are helping out
this week remember to bring clothes that can get messy!

As Community Members we want to know your opinions too! Please follow the links below to our two
surveys all answers are anonymous.

Dream Catcher: http://tinyurl.com/MCHSdreams Lightbulb: http://tinyurl.com/MCHSchange

Follow our progress on Twitter : @art_mchs