Monster Project Art Show! #207Now #digitalart #collab @mainewestfab

 

Advanced Digital Art students joined forces with students in the Educational Life Skills (ELS) program to make collaborative artwork. The project afforded Advanced Digital Art students the opportunity to work with a client - taking direction and inspiration from the ELS students' sketches and leading client conversations to create and revise designs until the client was happy with the product. 

Thank you to Maine West's digital art teacher, Ms. Natalya Kljajic, on her vision for this wonderful collaboration!

Please enjoy some of the student artwork that resulted from this project below:

2022-2023: A Retrospective in the Visual Arts #207Now #arteducation #CreativityFuelsTheFuture #FindYouBeYou @mainewestart @lahartanddesign2 @lloyd_mwphoto

 

The Maine West visual art teachers - Mr. Cammarata, Ms. Kljajic, Ms. Lahart, and Ms. Lloyd - have collaborated to produce a final, end of the year 22-23 retrospective celebrating the work and events created and experienced through the visual art program this year.

Please enjoy perusing this year's Maine West Virtual Art Gallery HERE.

Maine West Artists Participate in Des Plaines Art Guild's 70th Anniversary Show at the Frisbie Center #207Now #visualart #artshow @mainewestart @lloyd_mwphoto @mainewestfab

Maine West visual artists are part of the Des Plaines Art Guild's 70th Anniversary Art Exhibit on display at the Frisbie Senior Center. Students' mixed media artwork can be enjoyed by the public at the Frisbie Senior Center on Friday, June 2nd. 

Congratulations to the visual artists with work in this show!

Thank you to Maine West visual art teacher Ms. Melissa Lloyd and Maine West alumna and Des Plaines Art Guild member Rhonda Popko for collaborating to make this opportunity available to our students!

Maine West Visual Artists Featured in the CSL Art Show #207Now #artshow @mainewestart @lahartanddesign2 @lloyd_mwphoto @cammarta120 @mainewestfab

 

On April 20th, the Art Center of Highland Park hosted a public reception to celebrate the artists featured in this year's CSL Art Show. The work in this year's exhibit is breathtaking! Many Maine West students have work represented. Be inspired, and go check out the exhibit! You have two days left: Friday, April 21st and Saturday, April 22nd!

More pictures of Maine West students' work featured in this exhibit can be found HERE. 

A HUGE thanks to the Maine West visual arts team: Mr. Rick Cammarata, Ms. Felicia Lahart, Ms. Melissa Lloyd and Ms. Natalya Kljajic for inspiring these young artists and for doing all of the work necessary for them to be represented in this impressive show!

Several Maine West Artists Featured in the 2023 CSL Art Show #207Now #artshow @mainewestart @lahartanddesign2 @lloyd_mwphoto @cammARTa120

The annual CSL Art Show will open on Friday April 14th and run through April 22nd at the Art Center of Highland Park (1957 Sheridan Road, Highland Park, IL 60035). There is a public reception to celebrate the artists with pieces in the exhibition on Thursday, April 20 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Come out to see this impressive curated exhibit that displays work by some of the best high school visual artists in the region!

CONGRATULATIONS to the 49 Maine West visual art students with work in this year's CSL Art Show! 

2D Art
Oreoluwa Adesayo (Acrylic)
Makayla Allen (Silver Gelatin Print with Halochrome)
Mark Cangelosi (Mixed Media)
Ash Carmichael (Digital)
Ben Castro (Digital)
Maribelle Catanaoan (Mixed Media)
Anna Cengel (Watercolor)
Ana Danz (Acrylic)
Addy DeRusha (Silver Gelatin Print)
Han Dinh (Drawing)
Nicole Duma (Marker)
Alex Dusold-O'Connor (Acrylic)
Maritza Espinoza (Silver Gelatin Print)
Mei Fertig (Silver Gelatin Print)
Elena Franco (Silver Gelatin Print)
Lana Gerstmayr (Digital)
Abby Gomez (Digital)
Kayle Griffin (Silver Gelatin Print)
Victoria Hernandez (Digital)
Weronika Kmiec (Acrylic)
Savannah Krzywda (Silver Gelatin Print and Ortho Film)
Isabella Lopez (Mixed Media)
Linzey Lucas (Watercolor)
Shylina Mendez (Digital)
Alina Mithani (Silver Gelatin Print)
Elia Muriel (Color Photography)
Amina Music (Acrylic & Digital)
Mirela Music (Mixed Media)
Maria Leonor Murillo (Mixed Media)
Kiara Ramirez (Toneline Silver Gelatin Print)
Nicolas Raya (Digital)
Jaclyn Riedl (Acrylic)
Adam Salinas (Silver Gelatin Print)
Isabelle Servin (Acrylic)
Gabby Szewczyk (Mixed Media)
Penny Wurster (Marker)
Bruktawit Yigzaw (Digital Photography)
Zensanna Yost (Mixed Media)

3D Art

Nora Brown (Glass Mosaic and Handbuilt Ceramic)
Jris Kyle Dela Cruz (Glass Mosaic)
Nicole Duma (Handbuilt Ceramic)
Vianey Gonzalez (Handbuilt Ceramic)
Natalia Habczyk (Class Mosaic and Handbuilt Ceramic)
Vivian Mckenzie (Handbuilt Ceramic)
Ashley Mansell (Mixed Media Mosaic)
Marco Mendoza (Mixed Media Sculpture)
Mirela Music (Handbuilt Ceramic)
Yasmine Saini (Handbuilt Ceramic Series)
Ashley Schreyer-Miller (Handbuilt Ceramic)
Maya Woroszylo (Mixed Media Sculpture)
Penny Wurster (Handbuilt Ceramic)

Congratulations to the Student Artists & Musicians on a Fantastic Dimensions Concert and Art Exhibit! #207Now @mainewesthighschool @maine_west #creativityfuelsthefuture

 

Congratulations to the students and faculty involved in Dimensions: Premiere Concert and Art Exhibit! 

Many families and friends of student artists attended tonight's public reception to view the incredible student artwork on display in the LRC, and the Maine West Fine Arts Boosters treated all student artists with custom-designed art cookies!

For many of the music students, staff and their friends and family in the audience, tonight's concert was the first formal concert performed or attended in nearly two years...and the students did not disappoint! The band, choir and orchestra performed a diverse selection of repertoire beautifully. A highlight was the Percussion Techniques class performing Soup's On by Katrina Cavaliere, a piece performed using dining ware! The two compositions by Digital Audio + Music Production students Jose Martinez Vitela and Pavlina Panagiotidis were a special treat - to see and to hear! Thank you to the student musicians for sharing your music with us and enriching our hearts and souls!

Thank you to the students in the theatre tech crew for their work on the sound and light board! You really enhanced the sound and ambiance of tonight's show! 

Thank you also to the Broadcasting students for covering tonight's performance. The broadcast of tonight's 5:30 p.m. performance can be found HERE!

A HUGE THANK YOU to the Maine West Fine Arts Boosters for buying cookies and pizza for every student involved in tonight's events! Additionally, thank you to the mighty AND GROWING cadre of parent volunteers who worked with the FABulous Fine Arts Boosters to help make tonight's event happen by working the box office, assisting with the art exhibit, selling merchandise, and buying and serving pizza to 250 people! MW Fine Arts Booster Volunteers and Contributors - Your support of all of our Fine Arts students is appreciated beyond words!

More pictures from tonight's Dimensions: Premiere art exhibit and concert can be found HERE.

Come see the ART DIMENSIONS EXHIBIT 2021 @mwactivities @mainewestart #art #artseducation #creativity #craftsmanship #skill #dimensions

Come visit the Maine West Learning Resource Center (LRC - Library) to view the student artwork on display in the Art Dimensions Exhibit. The show will run from October 27th through November 19th, 2021. This show features student art work created during the 1st semester of this year, and includes examples of art work from every art class offered at Maine West so that students can learn about the kinds of art created in each class offered in art.

There will be a reception open to the public on Thursday, November 18th from 4:30-5:30 p.m. in the Learning Resource Center. 

Also on November 18th is the Dimensions Concert, featuring student musicians in the band, choir and orchestra programs. The Dimensions Concert will  have two performances: one at 5:30 p.m. and another at 8:00 p.m.

Here is a teaser of just some of the incredible student artwork on display!