Arts Academy Art Showcase for the Seniors!

The Arts Academy seniors just had their Senior Art Show, showcasing all the amazing pieces ranging from photography to sculpting. These pieces created by the seniors were not only creative, but showed the personality of each artist through their pieces.

Jasper Holland's Art Display

Jasper Holland's art which was showcased in the show contains a lot of his own created characters. He finds his passion mostly in the art form of mixing human and animal anatomy. Jasper's art uses a lot of colors and shapes, such as crescent moons.

Jasper's most noticeable art on display was his dolls. Jasper has taken dolls such as Monster High dolls found in thrift stores, and re-created them into completely new characters. His dolls are well crafted and very unique, using different materials to create different creatures.

Jasper's Favorite Doll Stryga

Jasper's favorite character he has created a doll for so far is his own character Stryga. A living female gargoyle with large wings and horns. Stryga's legs are built with metal joints allowing her legs to move much more freely compared to Jasper's other dolls.

Jasper explains his process of removing the original faces of the dolls, changing their bodies if necessary for the character's anatomy, and then adding the new paint and hair. For the hair of the dolls, Jasper takes yarn and brushes it out until it resembles hair.

Jasper's style with these dolls is very representative of him and his other pieces. Many of his pieces contain mythical creatures such as gargoyles and fauns. Jasper mentions how he takes most of his joy in drawing dragons, loving the many different ways they can be drawn.

Stephen's Art Display

Stephen Foreman uses his art in a more political sense, with many of his art pieces representing his political views. His art is very symbolic as well as beautiful. He focuses on both the political genre as well as the abstract genre.

Steven's art is more directed towards attention grabbing visuals rather than color. His art can invoke a feeling of power and inspiration, such as his self-portrait in which he is holding his fist in the air. Stephen was even chosen from the senior class to design the senior hoodie for the class of 2020.

Stephen's Self Portrait Sketch

Natalie standing in front of her Art Display

Natalie Tun had created an eye catching three dimensional piece with hair extensions and photo-shop art. Natalie's photo-shop self portrait was a popular addition to her display, so much so she was even commissioned by another student to create a poster similar to it.

Her art is very color expressive, and creative in the use of the hair extensions and images. Her photo-shopped images stood out in the show with their beautiful design and symbolism.

Jacob's Art Display

Jacob Kusmierski also aimed for a more photo-shop style art display. Jacob's pieces on display were a mix of his natural photography as well as his altered images.

Jacob's photography uses both a mix of black and white as well as color. His art is very expressive in regards to the emotions that it can encourage and uncover. Jacob's art is the kind you can find many different meanings in depending on the angle you look at it from.

Wende's Art Display

Wende Caltoux isn't afraid to show people images that really make them think. The gore in her art is not only very well executed but also causes people to think about the symbolism she uses behind it.

Her photography is very nature centered, with most of her images being of nature scenes such as different grounds in different environments. However she is very experimental with her photography, having several different photos on display.



The Art Majors have also begun designing tee shirts which they have printed and sold at the show. If you missed the chance to buy one of this shirts, it was a huge opportunity missed.

Layanna Sciandra sold many of these shirts to her fellow students. She was providing different colors of tye-dye as well as the option of the design printed in black or white.

The design on her shirts was a rose created with small abstract diamond shapes. The design was very popular among the other students.

The senior art show was a great representation of how expressive, unique, and original the senior's art is. Each senior's art was very showing of not only their talent but their personalities as well. The class of 2020 artists definitely have the potential to move on to great and fulfilling careers in the art industry.