Blind Brook High School Art Program-Rye Brook, New York
NEWS- scroll down for info and updates from the Art Department
Welcome to our new student gallery! At Blind Brook High School the number of students taking AP art and applying to art programs grows each year. Often their artwork gets sent off for evaluation without the opportunity for others in the school or community to see it. I am so proud to be working with such talent and wanted to share the amazing hard work and accomplishments of our art students. Over the year we will be adding student work, featuring student artists and hearing from alumni about their artistic pursuits-so please stop in again. Thank you for supporting the Blind Brook art program! Enjoy!
Sincerely, Ms. Petras
November 8th, 2012
The week before Sandy hit, Altered Ego hosted their annual event "Oodles of Doodles". At this event everyone is invited to draw together, share ideas and eat snacks. Here are some pictures of their last event:
OCTOBER 24th- PORTFOLIO DAY at PURCHASE COLLEGE
Purchase College is hosting a NATIONAL PORTFOLIO DAY. Follow this link to find out more.
April 24, 2012-
A few pictures from the Bronx Botanical Garden Orchid Show field trip!
Tara Tempesta
Ryan Breslow
Jordan
Jordan
March 23, 2012
An interesting new book and interview with the author:
interview with Jonah Lehrer on Fresh Air
February 2, 2012
Congratulations to Dean Scelfo on his recent acceptance to School of Visual Arts! Awesome!
January 17th, 2012
The new Altered Ego website is here:
http://bbhsalteredego.weebly.com
Find out news as we prepare our next issue.
You can even make submissions here!
January 4th, 2012
The Winter Edition of Altered Ego came out today! Great job AE!
Remember, if you want to submit drawings, writing or other creative, publishable endeavors:
send them to alteredegomagazine@gmail.com
The next book comes out in the Spring.
January 4th, 2012
Happy New Year!!
Congratulations to Alexa Maizes on her upcoming art show:
December 12th, 2011
Congratulations to AP Art student Ali Dulman!
She was recently accepted to her top choice school:
Washington University in St. Louis for Communication Design in the College of Art.
Way to go!
December 8th, 2011
It has been chosen
November 8th, 2011-
Yesterday a group of students from the BBHS literary and art magazine Altered Ego, the BBHS school newspaper Focus and the journalism students all went on a field trip to Columbia University for the Scholastic Press Association Conference. During the day they were all able to select five different sessions of workshops that covered a range of topics surrounding publishing including: Law and Ethics, Journalistic Writing, Layout and Design, and Creative Writing to name a few. It was a great day!
October 31, 2011-
AP Drawing student Nicole Chandras just finished her new website:
nicolechandras.com
October 28th, 2011-
A very interesting article about artists in the workforce here.
October 28th, 2011
Oodles of Doodles: Altered Ego, the school's arts and literary magazine hosts this fun event twice a year before each issue is published. Students meet in the commons to doodle together while snacking and socializing. Each issue features a page if doodles from this event. Here are some pictures of this years Ooodles of Doodles this past Wednesday:
an interesting article about doodling to listen to and read
an interesting article about doodling and memory
October 25th, 2011
Today some of the advanced art students went to the Neuberger Museum to see the Dana Schutz show. We all wished we could stay longer.
October 19th, 2011
Today Rebecca Fong from Rhode Island School of Design came to present about their program. She also had one on one portfolio reviews with six of our very talented and lucky students!
October 6th, 2011
Rhode Island School of Design is coming to BBHS art room October 19th at 8:30am. After a brief presentation about the programs RISD offers, an admissions representative will giving portfolio reviews for six students. If you are an interested junior or senior see me to see if we can squeeze a review in for you too.
October 5th, 2011
AP Student Kira Helberg just started her own website. Check it out here: kirahelbergportfolio.weebly.com
her most recent piece
October 4th, 2011
National Portfolio Days are coming to our area!
Students:
If you are interested in checking out many art schools, and getting feedback about your portfolio, check out these National Portfolio Day events below. Get there early because lines can get long. Also do some research about the schools that will be there and make a plan. I recommend going to schools that are the farthest away because you probably won't get to visit them.
Here are some dates to remember:
Sat, Oct 29: Hartford, Connecticut, Hartford Art School
12:00pm - 4:00pm
Sat, Oct 29: New York GRADUATE Portfolio Day, Parsons The New School for Design
12:00pm - 4:00pm
September 27th, 2011
Advanced Drawing and Painting students will be heading to the Neuberger Museum of Art to see the amazing paintings of Dana Schutz next month. The exhibition opened this weekend.
Check it out:
DANA SCHUTZ: IF THE FACE HAD WHEELS
September 25, 2011 - December 18, 2011
Dana Schutz combines fantasy and reality, humor and horror, to create figurative paintings that abound with expressionist energy. This first ten-year survey her work features approximately thirty paintings and twelve drawings created by the artist from 2001 to the present and will include work from each of her endlessly inventive series.
September 26th, 2011
Today one of our AP students showed me her new weebly website: http://www.allisondulman-artportfolio.com/ It is so great! Check it out!
September 22, 2011
Yesterday New York School Interior Design came for a presentation about interior design and the school. It was a very inspirational presentation for all!
One students shared her thoughts about the presentation:
Ali: The info session was fascinating! Even though I'm not interested in interior design, it was still awesome to hear about different types of art degrees and seeing all the amazing work done by NYSID students! I'm so thankful that Ms. Petras arranged this presentation for us!
September 15th, 2011
Check out the Student Work and AP Art pages! The art making has begun. Also check out the pictures and interview with BB alum Victoria Ferrer. Look under "other" on the blog to see the "alumni" section. Here is one of Victoria's photo's below. See more on the alumni page.
September 6th, 2011
Welcome Back students! We are back. I hope you all had a restful and fun summer and ready to make art! Check back often to see our art progress.
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JUNE 21st, 2011
CONGRATULATIONS to all the graduates! It has been a great year. Have a fantastic summer!!
March 21, 2011
Happy Spring!
Last week students from Blind Brook High School Photography and Digital Media classes went to the Youth Media Conference in Westchester. Many other schools from the Hudson Valley and Westchester County also participated. We are proud to report that the following BBHS students all received Viewer’s Choice Awards in the following categories.
CHEMICAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Jason Mandel / Blind Brook HS
DIGITAL PHOTO
Sydney Grau / Blind Brook HS
Melanie Greenwald / Blind Brook HS
ANIMATION
Karan Das, Dylan Symonette, Kate Citron, and Austin Brettshneider / Blind Brook HS
Oleh Hushtyk / Blind Brook HS
March 10, 2011
THIS WEEKEND
Friday March 11th- Sunday March 13th
There will be a student art exhibition hung in the High School Commons in conjunction with the high school production of Urinetown. Students photography, drawing and painting will all be part of the exhibition.
Students included in this exhibition are:
Lindsey
Smith
Jesse
Bauer
Emily
Chekmeyan
Katelyn
Kim
Logan
Lott
Jack
Levine
David
Zaccagnino
Kelsey
Mansfield
Sam
Rubenstein
Danielle
Landau
Taylor
Salvatore
Andres
Ortiz
Sabrina
Parisi
Emily
Conrad
Christian
Bucci
Samantha
Handler
Sage
Yockelson
Andrea
Knox
Kira
Helberg
John
Henry Herkert
Dean
Scelfo
Sarah
Berger
Rachel
Joseph
Greg
Occhicone
Cynthia
Segal
Alexa
Alter
Andre
Alves
Nicole
Chandras
Jackie
Ciraldo
Ali
Dulman
Nora
Fisher
Michelle
Riesenfeld
Anna
Rietti
Lauren
Spatafore
Alex
Woychowski
Peggy
Shi
Hayley
Groglio
Sydney Grau
Melanie Greenwald
Rebecca Kaplan
Spencer Jardine
Sal Scappatura
Scott Bass
Justin Gluck
Brian Lorys
Jason Mandel
Tom Ferrer
Jenna Poplausky
Julia Newman
Ali Kupin
Nola Werlinich
Adelel Heib
Eleana Landau
March 4, 2011
Check out our new banner above! It was taken from the artwork of Marianna Howard (below)-AP 2D students with Ms. Petras
March 2, 2011
I am pleased to announce that several advanced photo students have been honored with exemplary award ribbons from the NYS Media Art Teachers’ Association for work they submitted in January. Students will be traveling to a media arts conference being sponsored by NYSMATA on March 15, along with some other students in the art department.
The talented students are:
Melanie Greenwald
Sydney Grau
Jason Mandel
Spencer Jardine
Justin Gluck
Brian Lorys
Rebecca Kaplan
Jenna Poplausky
Tom Ferrer
Sal Scappatura
Sydney Grau's award winning photos below
Feb. 17th 2011
SAVE THE DATE:
We are excited to announce that Hayley Groglio, Dean Scelfo and Jason Mandel will be participating in The Rye Art Center’s annual exhibition, Students Studio: Emerging High School Talent. Their work will be hung along with other high school art students from Westchester and Lower Fairfield Counties.
An opening reception honoring the selected students will be held at The Rye Arts Center on Wednesday, March 9th from 6-7:30.
There will be a recognition ceremony at 6:45.
Please stop by if you are able!
Feb. 14th 2011
SAVE THE DATE :
Blind Brook students Jenna Poplausky, Rebecca Kaplan and Melanie Greenwald each have three photographs in this show at the Calumet Gallery in NYC. We are proud to announce that Melanie has received an Honorable Mention for her work.
The Reception for the 2011 Student awards will be -
March 5, 2011
3 - 5 PM
Calumet Gallery
22 West 22 St (between 5th and 6th Avenues)
NY, NY
Join us to celebrate the photography of young women photographers from high schools in the metropolitan area. We have received many submissions and this will be an exciting event from the perspective of seeing what young women are photographing these days as well as the talent they exhibit and the excitement
generated by their friends and families.
Dec. 14th 2010- Students have been making some amazing work (a few examples below). Make sure to check out the student works page to see more!
above, 9th grade artist Danielle Landau
Portfolio Development artist, Dean Scelfo
above, 10th grade artist Sage Yockelson
Nov. 15th 2010
BBHS ART STUDENTS IN THE WESTMORE NEWS!
In the Nov. 12th issue of the Rye Brook Westmore News, writer Nathan Mayberg wrote an article about four of our high school art students who participated in the 17th annual female high school exhibition at the College of New Rochelle. This years participants were Kira Helberg, Jackie Ciraldo, Melanie Greenwald and Sydney Grau. Congratulations girls! We are so proud of all your hard work.
In the Nov. 12th issue of the Rye Brook Westmore News, writer Nathan Mayberg wrote an article about four of our high school art students who participated in the 17th annual female high school exhibition at the College of New Rochelle. This years participants were Kira Helberg, Jackie Ciraldo, Melanie Greenwald and Sydney Grau. Congratulations girls! We are so proud of all your hard work.
photographs by Nathan Mayberg
November 9th 2010
Welcome back to another year of great art!! We are starting out the year strong with very full classes and lots of excited students. Please check our other pages to see some new student work!
