Growing up as a queer Black child in the Jim Crow era South, Ramekon O’Arwisters and his family had many barriers to overcome. His grandmother,

Artist Glen Taylor (previously) solders ridges of metal to porcelain fragments, completing a halved teacup or broken saucer with a range of unusual materials: barbed wire, tarnished silverware, old book pages, and multicolored twine form a portion of the household objects. Each intervention contrasts the pristine, delicate qualities of the porcelain with the visible rust,Continue reading "Barbed Wire, Rusty Knives, and Found Objects Mend Artist Glen Taylor’s Broken Porcelain"

3d AP art portfolio, senior year

This year I have 8 AP students. Most have never really considered themselves artists, but decided to take the class because it seemed interesting. I have been so pleased watching them develop and grow as artists over the course of the school year. Now is crunch time, and with all of our snow days, it is SUPER crunch time! The AP 3D portfolio has three components: Breadth (range of abilities) Concentration (sustained focus on one central concept) Quality (top 5 pieces tom Breadth or…

A sculptural installation made entirely of cardboard, “The Garden: Real and Imagined” is the work of 16 high school art students who are strangers to one another, to the material they would use, and to the group process required to achieve their vision.