Arts

2020 Arts Captains announced

Kajal Desai and Zoe Unterrainer are our newly appointed Arts Captains for 2020. I look forward to working in collaboration with them next year. Please read Kajal's and Zoe's reflections on becoming a 2020 Arts captains.

Kajal:

Being chosen to be Co-Art Captain is a great honour and privilege. For as long as I can remember Art is the class I have always looked forward to the most. Creating art is a way for an individual to convey their emotions and unique meanings as well as express themselves creatively. I believe anyone can create art which is why I want students to enjoy art as much as I do. I would love students to be more involved in Koonung’s Art Program, either by joining ‘Art Space’ or alternately choosing an art subject as one of their electives. As Art Captains, Zoe and I would be happy to take into consideration anyone’s ideas or thoughts to create an art community within Koonung where everyone feels welcomed and involved.

Zoe:

As Co- Art Captain for 2020, my goal is that I want students to express themselves through their artworks. Art is a great way to express yourself and in 2020 I would like to encourage the idea of building a sense of belonging and community at Koonung, because I understand what it feels like to be an outsider as I am from overseas. I understand isolation, but I also understand what belonging feels like and I want everyone to feel part of the Koonung community. I want people to be able to come up to me or Kajal and share their ideas with us whether it’s about the Arts program, Arts space or about choosing Art as subject. “Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world” Leonardo da Vinci”.

VCE Arts Exhibition

As we celebrated the Opening of the VCE Arts Exhibition on Wednesday night we witnessed amazing pieces of artworks from very talented students. It is so exciting to be part of all this creativity and be inspired by the talents of students in Art, Media, Studio Arts and Visual Communication Design. Thank you to all the students who exhibited in the exhibition – you should all be very proud of your achievements, hard work, dedication and success.

Many thanks goes to the Arts Domain who worked very hard to set the exhibition up, to Mat and Peter for setting up and dismantling the display boards, our amazing office staff, Helen and Gill for creating awards, editing newsletter items and organizing light refreshment supplies.

To the Senior School staff for the loan of the Senior Centre. Thank you to the Principal team for supporting the Arts and taking the time to select the Principal Acquisition Award winners.

To the Arts/Technology Domain staff- David Foote, Amy Mclellan, Richard Leask, Georgina Russell, Kirby Sens, and Sandy Angliss, for all they have put into making this VCE Exhibition look polished, refined and creative.

To David Forward for setting up the microphone system.

To the Arts captains (2019) Marina and Erin who both undertook folio subjects yet found the time to give back to the Arts. To Zoe and Kajal (2020 Arts Captains), thanking you for all your efforts in supporting the Arts and starting off with a big bang.

We say goodbye and thank you Marina and Erin and welcome Kajal and Zoe.

To the students of Art, Media, Studio Arts and Visual Communications-well done! We can see the amount of work that you have completed and we are so proud of you all!

Congratulations to the following students who were award reciprocants at the VCE Art Show:

Principal Acquisitions Award

Mina Wakefield

People’s Choice Award:

Art- Mina Wakefield
Media- Jazmyn Flintoff
Studio Arts- Hannah Clauson
Visual Communication-Vicky Mangonis

Highly Commended

Class teachers selected one student from each subject area based on their ideas, thought processes and perseverance towards their Arts subject

VCD- Vicky Mangonis
Media – Jazmyn Flintoff
Art- Emma Hocking
Studio Arts- Nicholas Hadj Michael

Congratulations to our Arts DUX- these students showed excellent skills, talents and amazing creativity with both practical and theoretical components of their Year 12 Arts subjects for 2019:

Art- Mina Wakefield
Media- Jazmyn Flintoff
Studio Arts- Hannah Clauson
Visual Communication Design- Elizabeth Odria

VCD - Elizabeth Odria

Helen Briffa

Arts Domain Leader

Box Hill Rotary Whitehorse Art Show

Our Year 11 Studio Arts class are entering this Exhibition – their work is on view from Thursday of this week until Sunday.

Arts Space Term 4 Lunchtime Activities

Please click on the table above to view the weekly lunchtime Art space activities. Talented artist, Sandy Angliss, will be running the sessions for the remainder of the term.