CLAY CREATIONS: MS. HELD'S CLAY CLASS BLOG: November 2016

The Orange County Human Rights Commission Exhibit: AN ARTIST'S RESPONSE TO HUMAN RIGHTS

Students from Ms. Held's Clay Classes and Mrs. Wurster's Human Rights Class are participating in this year's annual exhibit: AN ARTIST'S RESPONSE TO HUMAN RIGHTS. This exhibit is sponsored by the Orange County Human Rights Commission in collaboration with SUNY Orange and the Orange County Arts Council. 57 Clay students have submitted ceramic Monuments/Memorials and 10 Human Rights students have submitted scrap books.

This is an exhibit of visual and literary art work to raise awareness among high school students of the importance of human rights and the significance of Human Rights Day celebrated annually across the world on December 10th.
High School juniors and seniors are invited to illustrate any one of the 30 Articles of the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

We invite you to attend the gallery opening which will take place at Orange Hall Gallery at SUNY Orange in Middletown on December 4th from 1-3pm (snow date December 18th 1-3pm). Refreshments will be served. Exhibit will remain open from December 1-18, 2016.

UNIT 2: FANTASTICAL ANIMALS: Subtractive/Additive Sculpture

UNIT 2: FANTASTICAL ANIMALS: Subtractive/Additive Sculpture

The week of 11/14 Ms. Held introduced Unit 2 in our Clay Curriculum

*PROJECT GOAL: Since the cave paintings of early humans, the visual depiction of animals has embodied great spiritual and cultural significance for indigenous cultures throughout the world. Inspired by animal symbolic beliefs and artwork from a variety of indigenous peoples and contemporary artists students will choose two or more animals of personal symbolic significance and create a clay sculpture of a fantastical hybrid creature. Students will explore with the paintings styles of 20^th century Mexican artists and their Alebrijes, which are brightly colored Oaxacan-Mexican folk art sculptures of fantastical creatures.

Empty Bowls WHS Parent Bowl-Making Workshop-November 2016

Our second annual EMPTY BOWLS DINNER & FUNDRAISER will be held on

Friday, March 24, 2017, 530-8pm

in the HS Cafeterias

LIKE us on Facebook @Empty Bowls WHS

On Saturday, 11/5 parents from Ms. Held's Clay Classes came to a bowl-making workshop to make bowls for Empty Bowls WHS 2017.

Empty Bowls WHS Staff & Faculty Bowl-Making Workshop-November 2016

Our second annual EMPTY BOWLS DINNER & FUNDRAISER will be held on

Friday, March 24, 2017, 530-8pm

in the HS Cafeterias

LIKE us on Facebook @Empty Bowls WHS

On Monday,11/7 staff and faculty members from Washingtonville High School joined Ms. Held for a bowl-making workshop to make bowls for Empty Bowls WHS 2017.