Night of the Arts Community, May 5, 2016

Gwen, Emily, EmilyLin, and Lisbeth working the T-Shirt Booth

Marissa and Angelie creating magic with face paint

The Night of the Arts celebration was a fantastic night which included families, students, faculty, artists, and friends. Seeing the smiles on the students faces as they pointed out their art work on the walls to their enthusiastic parents was priceless. The henna booths kept the artists busy the entire night as students and guests took home some body art. Zombies, vampires, and other creatures roamed the exhibit as they left the special effects face painting booth. The music flowed from the DJ and coffeehouse performances which included dance, chorus, poetry, and other acts. In honor of the recent passings of David Bowie and Prince, the mocktail menu included a Lemon Stardust, Raspberry Beret, or a Mascarade Tea. Besides the bursts of color lighting up the 1st floor from the various artwork, community members gazed at the science fair and photos from the photography club. The baked goods kept the sweet tooth happy and finger sandwiches appeased bellies throughout the night. Event fundraiser t-shirts were high in demand and sold out quick. We were also lucky enough to be recognized with a surprise visit from the Manhatten Borough President Gale A. Brewer.

Thank you to the 9th grade team, Photography Club, Richard R. Green HS Administration and all that helped organize to make this 3rd Annual Night of the Arts a great night. Extra special thanks to those that went above and beyond such as the Mural Club, Dream Team, my advisory, Joyce Gendler, Gina Malanga, and Emily Stetson for your time and dedication to this event.

#rrghst #rrgart #brianbachisin #nycart

Kimberly Mendez beuatifying skin with art

A visit from my boys!

Ninth grade teaching gurus Jocelyn and Gina pouring our delicious mocktails

Our special effects face painters Marissa and Anjelie

Henna booth preparing for the evening rush.

RRG students and parents making their way into to the exhibition

RRG All-Stars Celine, Nayelly, Aqsa, Jocelyn, and Rosemeiry

Johanna with Fiona and Cody

AP Evda Darios and friends

Giovanni and family 

Alex Veras displaying his "rocking out" skills

Custodian Andy, Gina, and I reppin the RRG Art Community

The muscle behind the organization of the exhibit, Gina and Joyce

Alexandra and her brother

Manhatten Borough President Gail Brewer and I

Proud family with Evelyn under her Pomagranite drawing

Waiting for Coffeehouse performances to begin

Principal Nigel Pugh and I

Raising awareness and clothing for victims of the earthquake in Ecuador

Coffeehouse audience

Artwork for the 3rd Annual Night of the Arts

Proud artists Celine, Kimberly, and Xinocol 

Close to completing the hanging of the show. Here is a little taste of some of the artwork chosen for the Night of the Arts. The long hours of preparation and planning of details is well worth the celebration for our NYC Art Community at Richard R. Green High School. #rrghst #brianbachisin #highschoolart

The gallery

Chinese Landscape Scrolls and mixed media landcape paintings

Still lifes and fruit oil pastel drawings

Chris Corporan hiding behind trawberries

Model sketches by Liz Sanchez

Chinese scrolls and Buddha painting

Destiny and Malasia with some juicy looking paintings

The gallery

Parent Artist  Kelvin Bourne's display 

Mixed media coffee can still lifes

Night of the Arts Logo for 3rd Annual

Richard R. Green HS of Teaching will be hosting its 3rd Annual Night of the Arts in May 5, 2016. Here is the final shirt designed by student Helem Carpio and myself. These limited shirts will be on sale as a fundraiser for the arts.
#brianbachisin #rrghst #rrgart

Buddha Paintings

Here are two large scale Buddha paintings continued from the interdisciplinary work with Global Studies. Every student in this particular class had two 1'3" squares to paint. Each square has its own little flavor of self expression. The other Buddha paintings posted earlier were done in groups of 3-4 students.
#brianbachisin

Mixed Media Landscapes

Painting by Kimberly Mendez #brianbachisin

Painting by Isaac Santiago #brianbachisin

Paintin by Jessiah Lucien #brianbachisin

Painting by Angelique #brianbachisin

Painting by Jarlinson Matos  #brianbachisin

These 1st year art students learned about basic color theory and did some painting exercises experimenting with value through mixing primary, secondary, and tertiary colors. They had to implement these practices into a landscape painting. The criteria for the painting included use of value through color theory, collage with magazines or other materials, and the use of texture. Some students used paper mâché to make the foregrounds of the landscape appear 3-dimensional and other used torn paper collage as their texture. Students learned about color theory, value, and texture in this project through the act of art making and had fun experimenting at the same time. Much of this procedure was experimenting, trial and error. I encouraged students that the process was more important than the outcome.
For many of these students, it's was their first time working in a paint medium. It's natural for them to try to make perfect paintings and struggle doing so. That's why I encourage experimentation with the medium. Being so flexible, there are so many directions to go with the paint medium and students must have time to find what they are comfortable doing through extensive exploration. I always tell them, "No painter has a style until they have created at least 100 paintings. This is your first painting. Decide what you're comfortable with after 99 more."
#brianbachisin #rrghst #highschoolart

National Museum of the American Indian

One of the many benefits of teaching in the Financial District NYC #brianbachisin

Grateful to have this group as my advisory for the next two years!  #brianbachisin

Emily Lin and Jazlyn Soto soaking in the museum vibes #brianbachisin

Rashida Ali and Crystal Seecoomer in the zone reflecting on captivating works of arts.  #brianbachisin

Examining the pencil techniques of a Native American Wizard  #brianbachisin

Great period long field trip across the street writing about, reflecting, and drawing some Contemporary Native American storytelling artwork with my amazing advisory class. #brianbachisin #rrghst #rrghstart

May 5, 2016 Night of the Arts

3rd Annual Night of the Arts at Richard R. Green HS of Teaching coming up May 5, 2016 at 7 Beaver St, New York, NY. All are welcome! We don't have advanced art classes or sequential art electives, but the work produced in our Studio Art 1 classes will make you think we do. Come check out our photo booth, henna station, science fair, face painting, coffeehouse performances, and art exhibit. Come have a mocktail and a light snack and support NYC student art!!!

Mural club

Making progress on the large staircase wall at RRGHST!