Roseland University Prep Artwork-Identity Project

Roseland Students at work.

Juan Arragon

Morgan Caricchio

To view more Roseland students' work  go to slides 60-73

Joshibi's Interpretation of the Indentity Project

Emi Szuki

These are just a few pieces by Joshibi students. Go to the slideshow to view more great examples.

The final display at Joshibi, Tokyo, Japan.

American and Japanese artwork.

Kanna Himeno

Riho Minemura

Emiri Nomura

To view Joshibi's artwork view slides: 45-65 in the slideshow.

Students & Faculty from Beijing #4 School Visit and Experiment with Encaustics

Lin YanJie, Zhang XinFang, Liu WenJun

These are the first high school students and English teacher in all of China to paint with encaustics! (Their teacher is on the left.)

Beijing #4 Painting

 Beijing #4 is one of the top high schools in all of China. For the last 13 years students have come to visit Sonoma Academy and our students have gone to Beijing. This year a few students wanted to try painting.  They decided to paint the symbol of their school using wax.

Students touching the work of an SA student.

Starting the painting.

RUP & SA Students Paint at Sonoma Academy

RUP students working on their first encaustic piece!

 

Building Texture

SA student & RUP student

Sonoma Academy Art Class Visits Roseland University Prep Art Class

Fred Vedder's Classroom

 Today, students from Sonoma Academy went to visit Roseland University Prep for an introduction to the joint project, Iconography of the Ancient Civilizations of Mesoamerica, Greece and Rome through Encaustic.  Art instructors, Hillary Younglove and Fred Vedder gave encaustic demonstrations to the students.

Hillary demonstrating gold transfer.

The project introduces students to the iconography of the ancient civilizations of Mesoamerica, Rome and Greece through the medium of encaustic. A variety of techniques will be covered: painting flat and building texture, embedding photography and doing tranfers, and applying three-dimensional objects.  Each student will complete a minimum of two 8x8 inch panels, one Roman or Greek inspired, and one Olmec, Aztec, Zapotec, Mixtec or Mayan. These panels will become part of two 4x6 foot installations using motifs from these cultures, comparing and contrasting epigraphy, colossus heads, other forms of sculpture, architecture, and wall painting. These panels will reside on both campuses.

RUP students experimenting with encaustics.

Fred talking about building texture with wax.

Hillary demonstrating image transfer.

http://www.roselandsd.org/RUP/

http://www.sonomaacademy.org/

This project has been generously sponsored by R&F Paints Color for Knowledge Program and Friedman's.

Various encaustic styles and samples.

The Identity Project

Caleb printing a soccer ball pattern.

View the slideshow for images created by students from Sonoma Academy, SOLA, Roseland Prep, and Joshibi.

Switchboard-A Meeting Place for Art Exchanges

Switchboard Photo: P.K. Weis

For 20 years I've had students involved in art exchanges with schools abroad and within the US. Through these exchanges we share artwork, our cultural identities, and deal with the issues of our times and past. This fall the theme is Identity. We will do a virtual art exchange with the SOLA school in Afghanistan, Joshibi School in Japan and Roseland University Prep . Students in Sonoma Academy's foundation art class (a beginning art course of primarily 9th graders) will be initiating the project.

This spring the studio art class (10-12th grade) will be doing an exchange with a local public school, Roseland University Prep. The theme will deal with the Iconography of the Ancient Civilizations of Mesoamerica, Rome and Greece through the Medium of Encaustic. Two collaborative works of art will be created to reside at both schools. 

Here are some projects we worked on with the Joshibi School over the past few years. These were real art exchanges where each school mailed the collaborative art pieces to display in Tokyo and Santa Rosa.