Kidney Shilling (All photos taken by Kidney Shilling, all art done by BISFA Visual Artists)
On April 22nd, 2022 the Visual Artists held their last art exhibition for this school year. It featured all of the grade's art work along with some art that was shown in the Senior Exhibition. This year’s spring exhibition showcased many of the mediums the visual artist learned how to use at their time at BISFA: pottery, digital art, photography, and multiple other mediums.
The spring art exhibition had a big showing of plates that the artist made during a workshop with a special guest. These plates were outlined in beeswax and then cooked and glazed in the kiln. These plates were shown all over the BISFA lobby. They had a special significance considering they were some of the only pieces that all of the grades made. Along with these plates, were some amazing displays of photography that were taken all over Hagerstown. Most of these photos were taken on the photo walks the visual art students go on with their teacher Mr. Youngblood.
This exhibition was put up on opening night of this year's school musical, Something Rotten. Many of the artists were thrilled by the amount of parents and students who came to admire their art.
Since this exhibition showed many of the students amazing art I wanted to get a few inside opinions on the creative process and how artists chose the art that was shown. “We built a series of projects that we wanted to put in the spring exhibition,” said Wanja Ramadhani. Some of the sophomores also stated that they had a few projects that they wanted to put in the show but they didn’t make it in time. And with the showing, which is in the BISFA lobby until May 1st, being as amazing as it is now, it’s wonderful to think about all of the other pieces of art these artists were able to make throughout this year.
Even though this exhibition was the first of many for some of the freshmen and sophomores, many of the seniors were feeling a bit of shock considering this was their last show at BISFA. “I’m not going to register that this is my last show until later next week and then I’ll be sad. But right now I think it’s like a normal art show,” said Phoenix Cardwell. It’s safe to say all of the seniors were feeling this way while looking around at all of their art along with their peers' art.
The showing at this art exhibition was one to remember, not only for the people who attended to see the students' art, but for the students, too. A big congratulations to all of the visual artists!
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