Art and
Community Club
Wellesley
High School
Art & Community Club is a student-run club that focuses on creating and
exhibiting artworks around specific themes that bring awareness to essential elements
of a healthy community. This year’s exhibit, “Ecomagination”, is centered on ecological
concerns. Students dealt with issues of recycling, pollution, and reminding the
community that we are part of nature.
Juyon Lee
Art and
Community Club President
Class of 2014
The Green Way for Change
Juyon Lee, Eva Loh, Jin Kim, Monica Ong, Zahra Pirani, and Nicki Sizing
Mosaic - wooden board, newspaper, recycled paper, aluminum cans
Our art project was inspired by Vik Muniz, a Brazilian artist who uses trash to create mosaic art pieces. We made paper stars out of old newspaper and used paper. The stars represent individual's hope to make a green difference. Together, they portray nature scenery of trees, flowers, and leaves. The road is made out of pieces of aluminum cans and rolls of newspaper because we wanted to remind our community that if no one tries to make a green change, we would have to step on trash that we make every day. The newspaper rolls symbolize cigarettes, which are not only harmful to our environment, but also to one's health. In addition, the parts of aluminum cans at the bottom of the board have green messages to encourage the viewer to start making a small change. If we make a green difference little by little, there'll be a greater outcome like how the stars create this nature scenery. We hope that the Wellesley community will consider how we impact our environment every day and the importance of protecting our planet.
Pin Cushion
Serena
Benages
Sculpture - cookie cutter, pillowcase, newspaper bags, recycled box, yarn
Found Music
Serena
Benages
Sculpture - sardine can, cigar box, coffee filter, nails, wire, newspaper bags,
coke can
My artwork was made with all recycled materials. The message I portray
through my art is how beauty and music can be found everywhere. These gifts are
not limited to a few people, but rather the hope of the many. I was inspired to
make these pieces when I first saw a musical instrument made from recycled
materials. The creativity in which it was made inspired me to make it my own.
Untitled
Anonymous
Sculpture - wire, flowers, glass bottle
When Pigs Can Fly
Anonymous
Sculpture - scrap metal
Beachcombing
Cora Hersh
Trees in the Meadow
Laura
Scott
A Mirror
Chloe
Kolbet
Painting, mixed media
Nature and the human spirit are deeply interconnected. The beauty and laws
of one are mirrored in the other. With this knowledge one can learn deep truths
about oneself through the observance and exploration of nature. Humanity, in
this way, is called to immerse itself in and grow closer to nature. However,
they are not one and the same. As with a mirror, the human and nature are
reflections of each other, not a singular being. They differ in that the human
mind sorts and classifies, while nature grows without order, making them
opposites.
Humanity, therefore, is called not to become nature or even imitate it, but
to morph in response to it. It is so easy to just study nature, but to grow
with it is more difficult. In school, we study the wonders and beauty of nature
throughout the grade levels. We are taught to respect its glory with a kind of
reverence. Yet, this leaves a gap between nature and us that should not exist.
Instead of living among and knowing nature with familiarity, we place it upon a
pedestal, which isolates it from us. This twists and stretches the bond between
humanity and nature in such a way that we grow distant from not only nature’s
beauties, but also, as a result, our own. Our connection with nature in not
intimate, but rather that of a distant relative. We choose to just exist in
nature; instead we must interact with it, and, in this way, allow ourselves to
grow and change in response.
Mother Nature
Juyon Lee
Where Is My Bamboo?
Eva Loh
Scratchboard illustration
Capture The Sun
Laurel
Hennessee
Photograph
Paint the Sky
Laurel
Hennessee
Photograph
Summer
Laurel
Hennessee
Forests of Steel
Katie
Pedersen and Nicki Sizing
Photograph on Newspaper
We shot photographs in Boston and
printed them on newspaper. The inspiration came from the idea that cities have
replaced forests. When you look up you see concrete, not canopies, and when you
look into the harbor you see trash instead of fish. We tried to show the
coldness of being surrounded by metal rather than life, and we tried to choose
visually interesting images.
Today’s Garden
Olivia
Czubarow
Mr. Clean Collection
Han Li
Sculpture - plastic water bottles and aluminum cans
Dancing Flowers
Zahra
Pirani
Sculpture - flexible garden tie, recycled magazines
"Dancing Flowers" exhibits the techniques of wheel throwing and
collage combined into one sculpture. The artist's intent was to create artwork
from recyclable materials, such as magazine cutouts, as well as to incorporate
her own favorite sculpture techniques. In creating art from reusable materials,
the artist hopes to convey the union of environmentalism and "green"
artwork. "Dancing Flowers" was inspired by various displays of
artificial flowers the artist had seen and the artist's desire to combine
nature, recyclable materials, and sculpture into one artistic creation.
Ocean Chimes
Monica Ong
Jewelry - seashells
Crossroads
Nic
Shepard
Digital Art
Taken in the outback of Australia,
this was originally a picture of a river entangled by roots of surrounding
trees. From these pixels, and heavy editing, this piece was created.
Patched
Kate
Westenberg
Mosaic - bottle caps, old rug samples, reused Styrofoam board
The Cove
Connor
Perry
Oil on Canvas
Paleolithic
Alexander
Golob
Oil on Wood
Dear Hunt
Juyon Lee
Scratchboard Illustration
Grimm's Tale
Alexander
Golob
Music of the Flowers
Alice
Rocha
Mosaic – paper, aluminum cans
