15th Annual High School Invitational at CSUN

Here is a picture of this year's display, representing Grant.

Two Studio 401 students are featured:
Leetal Cohen with a character line-up of "My Boys." 
Zarui Boyadjian with a typographical self-portrait.

CSUN: 14th Annual High School Invitational

As noted in a previous post, Studio 401 was represented in Grant's display at this annual CSUN art show.

Art from our school was displayed on one of the most prominent walls in the gallery, putting our talented students in the spot light.

To see the original post, including the artwork, go here.

International Printing Museum

Studio 401 had its first official field trip, today.  The period 1 advanced class and TAs went to the International Printing Museum in Carson, CA.  We had a great tour led by Phil, Gary and Mark.  As it turns out, Gary is an Alumni of Grant H.S. and learned to print in our classroom!  On the tour we saw working print shop equipment that spanned from the 1450's to the 1980's.  Students learned to mind their p's and q's and avoided becoming out of sorts while learning print shop phrases and history.  After the tour everyone got to try their hand at making paper, casting their name in hot metal and even got to print on three different types of presses.  Here are a few pictures from our visit:

A large hand press used to print a page of the LA Times.

 This is a replica of Gutenberg's printing press (c. 1455).

 Jose and Alan search through the matrices to spell out their names.

 Haylee, with her name in matrices ready to make type.

 

Andrew's name in hot metal type.

Recycling paper with a blender to make a slurry called "stuff."

 A paper mold as it is pulled out of the vat.

 Augustin is pulling the mold out of the vat to make paper.

Ben couches the newly made paper onto a layer of felt.

 Mario inks the matrix on a proof press.

Students learn about bookbinding from Mark Barbour.

14th Annual High School Invitational Exhibition @ CSUN

Its here, the annual CSUN High School invitational art exhibit!  Fifty-two San Fernando Valley high schools and over two hundred students will be participating in this show. This includes three students from Studio 401: Kayla Putman, Jazmine Sanchez and Pedro Vargas, as well as their teacher: Ms. Dozois.   The show will be up from January 10th to 29th.  The big party for the closing will be on Friday the 28th from 7 to 9 pm.  Don't miss it!

Learn more about it on the art gallery website: here.
Read a newspaper story about it in the Sundial: here.

Here are the artworks from Studio 401 for the CSUN show:

Typographic Portrait by Kayla Putman

Imagination Drawing by Pedro Vargas

Typographic Portrait by Jazmine Sanchez

Fall Play Poster Designs

This year's Fall Play is "Pure as the Driven Snow" by Paul Loomis. Once again, the advanced Studio 401 students were asked to come up with concepts for the poster art. The increasing rate of creativity amongst the Studio 401 students is making it more and more difficult for the play production class to choose a design. This year they chose three designs! Each of the chosen designs show a different aspect of the play: a classic villian, a love story and danger. Below are the final designs, soon to be seen posted around campus.

Artwork by Marina Ghazanchyan

Artwork by Jose Juarez

Artwork by Ben Villalobos

PIASC T-Shirt Competition

Today marked a fabulous ending for a months long process. Back in February, advanced Studio 401 students began to come up with ideas for their entry into the annual Printing Industry Association's T-Shirt competition. Although it was our first time using our new silk screen equipment, Studio 401 wanted to make a strong entrance into the realm of graphic arts competitions. Several design ideas were explored and all Studio 401 classes voted for their favorite ideas. The designs were required to incorporate a pro-literacy concept aimed at children. In the end it was Alan Martin's concept of a dragon coming out of a book that won the imagination of our students.

Phase two of the process involved finalizing the artwork. Angel Martinez stepped in to illustrate Alan's idea and bring it to life. Next, more students stepped in to help with the production process which included not only printing the shirts but documenting the process and creating a storyboard that outlined the entire project.

All of the hard work put in by the Studio 401 students and their teacher paid off at the PIASC award ceremony on April 29th. There were many worthy contenders from other schools, but the new kids on the block, Grant's own Studio 401, stole the show by winning 1st place in both categories: Best Production and Best Design. Two large and showy trophies were awarded to Studio 401 as well as $900 for the graphics program.

Congratulations to the 2010 Studio 401 T-shirt team:
Design: Alan Martin & Angel Martinez
Production: Edward Agazaryan, Jorge Ramirez and Edgar Romero

For more information about the competition, visit the PIASC website.

Fame: Spring Musical Poster Designs

Congratulations to Andrew Gary who's artwork was chosen to be used on the poster for the Spring Musical: Fame.  Andrew's artwork was so well liked that he was asked to make a series of similar posters for the play.  Andrew's designs show colorful silhouettes of some of the actual cast members that you will see performing in the show. Everyone at Studio 401 looks forward to seeing these beautiful posters around campus and to seeing the exciting performances starting on April 29th.

Artwork by Andrew Gary: