OHHS Art and Design Student Awarded 1st Place at the Taft Museum of Art’s ARC Exhibition Opening!
OHHS Art and Design students enrolled in Schorsch’s Drawing and Printmaking class had the opportunity to participate in the ARC program this year. The Taft Museum of Art’s Artists Reaching Classrooms (ARC) offers an immersive educational experience to Greater Cincinnati high school students that includes a range of activities, including museum visits, classroom sessions with professional artists, and studio tours.
Throughout the first semester, students had the opportunity to engage in meaningful interactions and mentoring with artists Kay Hurley, Cedric Cox, Kevin Muente, and Saad Ghosn. The students built an understanding of artists, art, and society, working artists’ methods, exploration of various careers in the arts and culture sector, and appreciation for the Taft Museum of Art as a local resource with a rich history.
The experiences culminate in the creation of original artworks, 5 of which could be selected for a juried exhibition at the Pendleton Arts Center Annex Gallery. Students were challenged to consider their interpretation of “Wonder” and generated works that demonstrate their approach to the term after brainstorming, project planning, and setting up their own resource images.
5 students from each participating school were selected for this year’s competition. The 5 Drawing and Printmaking students who were selected for this year’s exhibition to represent OHHS were:
Miles Frisch (10)
Aubree Fuson (9)
Austin Haarmeyer (9)
Jackson Mundstock (9)
Michael Smith (9)
The “Wonder” Exhibition, which opened on February 18th, 2024 at The Annex Gallery, showcased the work of students from Aiken, Hughes STEM, McNichols, Oak Hills, Princeton, School for the Creative and Performing Arts, Spencer School for the Gifted and Exceptional Students, St. Bernard, Summit Country Day School, Walnut Hills, Western Hills, and Winton Woods High Schools. At the opening reception, Miles Frisch received the Noteworthy Award for the Best in Show from OHHS and Jackson Mundstock took home the 1st place award!
As part of the award, Jackson will continue to learn the professional aspects of the life of an artist by being paid for the use of his image, having the work reproduced onto the Taft Museum of Art’s reusable bags, having his work showcased to funders and the community to show the outcomes of the ARC program, as well as the creation of a museum banner that will be displayed outside of the Taft Museum of Art as well as Oak Hills High School!
Jackson Mundstock, Grade 9, “Les merveilles de se demander”, Charcoal on Canson Paper
Check out “Wonder” now through March 30th, 2024 at the Annex Gallery!
