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Corbett Art Featured at MHCC High School Art Exhibit by Anthony Young

Anthony Young — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 15:22:11 +0000

All students, friends and family are invited to come see work created by Corbett’s student artists displayed at the Mt. Hood Community College Visual Arts Gallery from April 2-26. The Opening Reception will be held this Thursday, April 5, from 5:00 – 8:00 pm, with awards presented at 7:00 pm. Work by seventeen Corbett High School students were entered to the show to provide a sample of our fine arts program. Congratulations to all Corbett art students, your work this year has been quite impressive!

For more information about the show you may contact the MHCC Visual Arts Gallery at 503-491-7309 or see the MHCC Visual Arts Center Gallery Schedule.

Student Artwork Featured at Heart of the Country Show and Sale by Anthony Young

Anthony Young — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 21:45:18 +0000

Visit the 32nd Annual Heart of the Country Show and Sale presented by the Larch Mountain Country Artisans. Virtually all of Corbett Schools’ art students (10th-12th graders) have submitted a piece created this year. You will see artistic approaches ranging from Pictionary-inspired compositions to mixed-media collage. Congratulations to Corbett Schools’ creative and hardworking students on a successful first trimester!

Where: Glenn Otto Community Park, Sam Cox Building, 1106 E. Columbia River Hwy, Troutdale

When: November 18 (1pm-7pm), November 19 (10am-5pm), and November 20 (10am-4pm)

For more information visit www.lmca-artisans.com.

A special thank you to the Larch Mountain Country Artisans for your support year after year!

What do blue concentric circles sound like? by Anthony Young

Anthony Young — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:34:45 +0000

In the pursuit of understanding some of the major elements and principles of design we have been focusing on Kandinsky for the past month. This week we finished an intensive round of peer critique. What an experience! Nearly every student presented their nonobjective works to their classmates, answered clarifying questions and received feedback. The insight communicated by students this year to their peers was among the strongest I have heard in my career of teaching.

For the first project, students chose one piece by Wassily Kandinsky and created its companion by drafting a new composition that employed some of the elements and principles (e.g., shape, line, color, scale for emphasis, movement) found in their chosen work by Kandinsky.

The second of the two required the student to translate rhythm, texture and melody of music into a visual experience design and execute an abstraction based on a song of their choice. They were introduced to this project with a viewing of Scriabin’s Prometheus: Poem of Fire, a documentary featuring an attempt to realize composer Alexander Scriabin’s vision of combining light and sound in a multi-sensory symphony.

If you didn’t get a chance to see your child’s artwork during Wednesday’s conferences, feel free to drop by and check it out after school!

With a strong start in the nonobjective world, Corbett’s students will continue building on foundation for modern art.

Welcome back, see you in Art and Psychology by Anthony Young

Anthony Young — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 18:25:36 +0000

The air is filled with enthusiasm for what is sure to be a fantastic new school year. Corbett’s students have a great foundation of success to build on this year.

Congratulations to the AP Art and Psychology students of this past year. Here’s a nod to the entire class of 2-D Design students, who as a class matched its global passing rate. AP Psychology was within one student of exceeding its global passing rate. We have much to be proud of as a non-tracked AP program.

This year’s psychology students can look forward to receiving a calendar of reading, assignment due dates and scheduled quizzes and tests on the first day. We will continue to focus on articulating the vocabulary and concepts seen in a collegiate introductory psychology course. Student projects and presentations will take a greater role than in the past. This class is far beyond reading a prep book. That said, I do encourage students to purchase a 5 Steps to a 5: AP Psychology published by McGraw-Hill as a supplement to the classroom curriculum. It is not required, but the past two recent editions have proved a useful to tool to diligent students.

All AP art students will be spending more focus on planning and building sophisticated concentration sections to their portfolios. Remember, if this is your second or later year in art, you will be submitting an AP Studio Art portfolio in May, 2012.

Enjoy the final weekend of summer. I look forward to seeing students on Monday, and everyone else at the open house on Wednesday, September 7th!