Posts Tagged ‘Camden Hills Regional High School’
Mural Paintings in Multi-use Space
June 16, 2011Camden Hills Regional High School
Painting students in art teacher Russell Kahn’s classes painted a series of four trompe l’oeil windows offering views of four exotic locations. The places selected by students were Paris, Greece, Africa, and Venice. The windows are in a classroom that is used for many purposes including evening meetings. They are framed with “brick” arches and sills as well as a brick band that runs the full width of the wall underneath.
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Photo History Project
May 27, 2011Photography Class Five Town History Project – Camden Hills Regional High School
Thank you to art teacher Carolyn Brown for submitting this blog post.
Kevin Johnson
Students in Ms. Brown’s Photo Studio classes at Camden Hills Regional High School are working on a “Then and Now” photo history project of the Five Towns CSD, including photos from Appleton, Hope, Lincolnville, Camden and Rockport.
Guest photographer and photo archivist Kevin Johnson, of the Penobscot Marine Museum, visited classes in late May. He showed students historic photos from the Eastern Illustrating photo archive, which includes photos of the Five Towns shot between 1909 and 1947. He explained how these photos were made with large cameras and glass plate negatives, and how he and his team of archivists have been cleaning, restoring and digitizing the glass plates. Students then tried out Kevin’s large-format camera, to get a feel for how the old photos were set up and shot.
Kevin Johnson, Heather Eaton
Students have selected old photos from the collection to reshoot with modern tools. The classes will select the best shots and create 25 pairs of images- one of the old shots with the scene as it looks today. These photos will be matted and framed, and become a permanent collection for CHRHS. Additionally, local historians will work with students to give background history about the history of the Five Towns area depicted in the photos. Eventually, the photos will be available on the Penobscot Marine Museum website, and mapped using GIS tools.
This project is supported by Youth Arts, the Bisbee Fund, and a donation from Laurie Adams. Anyone interested in learning more about the project, please contact teacher Carolyn Brown at Carolyn_Brown@fivetowns.net
More information about the Penobscot Marine Museum historic photo collection can be found on their website at http://www.penobscotmarinemuseum.org/photo-collections/index.html
Kevin Johnson, Dinara Galilulina
Congrats to Camden Rockport Student
May 16, 2011
Lizzie Cox, a junior at CHRHS, had her artwork selected as First Runner Up in the Congressional Art Competition for the State of Maine. Lizzie is in Advanced Art Portfolio class with Ms. Carolyn Brown, and additionally takes a painting class outside school with instructor Ron Frontin.
Recently Lizzie attended a reception at the Blaine House with Governor and Mrs. LePage. At the reception, she was awarded a $24,000 scholarship ($6,000 a year for 4 years) to Maine College of Art, if she chooses to attend.
BIG congratulations to Lizzie for this award and to her Carolyn, her art teacher!
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