Riverview High School Art and Design

RHS Grad of 2001 ❤️😊

Thanks to artist Laura Watson for virtually visiting Creative Arts class last week and speaking about her practice. We followed up with several student-made zines and copies of a collaborative class book.
Thank you to Frye Fest and ArtsLinkNB for making this classroom connection.

An exciting new arts appreciation course to share for course selection this week:

Creative Arts 110 Creative Arts is a challenging new course that will guide students to a deeper understanding and appreciation of the arts in all disciplines.

« In a world of so many distractions, silence is a choice », reflects Aiden H in this thoughtful video produced for Journalism 120

Silence is a choice — Royal Report “In a world of so many distractions, silence is a choice”, reflects Aiden Hatchard.

Journalism 120 student, Liv M reflects on the importance of the arts. “We’re straying from the things that make us feel alive. We’re losing something vitally human.”
Read her thoughts here:

Living is a dying art — Royal Report Living is a dying art. Not surviving, that’s human instinct, it’s in our bones; but capital “L” Living? The things we live for, art, music, poetry; they seem to be disappearing, and the people who create these things, being underappreciated. Society simply does not value the arts as much as ...

Some great ideas to keep everyone creative 🎨 ✏️ 😊

A long and entirely subjective list of creative challenges to get you through COVID-19 Trying to keep busy during quarantine? Join the club — these clubs.

Drawing gives your brain different ways to engage with new material: you must figure out how to draw it by imagining it in detail, you experience the physical feeling of rendering that idea, then you see a visual of it.

Drawing Is the Fastest, Most Effective Way to Learn, According to New Research You are probably not using the most effective, research-backed study technique.

For the Harvest moon photographers:

As we point our tiny iPhones at tonight's Harvest Moon, astonishing to remember that photography has only been around for a blink of geologic time. Here is the story of the first surviving Moon photograph and the visionary 30-year-old daguerreotypist who took it: https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/09/10/john-adams-whipple-moon/

Explorations in Photography in Digital Productions 120. Student examples to illustrate camera angles, composition and light & Shadow.

Starting next week. Sketchbook Club. Creative exercises- no judgement, no marks, no pressure