Don’t forget to come out for the First Fridays Art Walk tomorrow night! We’ll once again be hosting the amazing talents of art students from Shawnee Heights High School! Come out and see Dylan Clemmons, Raven Smith, Briana Caspers and Rachel Seuell showing Painting, Ceramics and Photography. Afterwards stop in upstairs at the Tinkham Veale Updown Gallery to see even more local artists from our area as well!
Artists statements for this month:
“Dylan Clemmons is currently a senior at Shawnee Heights High School. She is involved with many art classes but her favorite has always been photography. Dylan enjoys bringing out the beauty she sees in everyone and everything through this art form. She adored her first windup film camera (which she got as a 2nd grader), and carried it with her everywhere even though it didn’t have a flash. Her parents, Dale and Kate Clemmons, were thankful when her grandmother helped her purchase a 2 mega pixel digital camera at the age of 12, since she went through rolls of film faster than her mom could buy them. She now owns a Pentax K 100D and is hardly ever found without it. She appreciates still life but really loves “people pictures”. Recently, she attended Washburn University’s Art Day and received 1st place in the photography division.
If you care to see more of Dylan’s work, visit her online gallery page at: deeceemarie.deviantart.com”
“Raven Smith is a senior at Shawnee Heights High School. She has had an interest in photography for several years and has created images both for fun and for school. Along with photography classes in high school, Raven has taken classes from Washburn Technical School in photo technology. Raven enjoys working in the darkroom with
B & W film as well as in the digital realm. She likes that photography allows her to show the world as she sees it through the lens of her camera. She likes to experiment with different perspectives on her world and has experimented with alternative printing techniques. Raven has recently worked with and enjoyed a medium format old style Holga camera to create vintage looking images. Her goal with her photography is to enable others to see life from different perspectives and to help them see and appreciate simple wonders around us. Raven plans to attend Highland Community College next year to pursue a degree in Commercial Photography.”
“Briana Caspers is a senior at Shawnee Heights High School. She first became interested in ceramics when she was able to work with clay in her 8th grade design class. She has been in ceramics classes since her freshman year and is currently in ceramics 4. Briana enjoys making her pieces as gifts for friends and family members and is inspired by their likes and interests. Painting on details with colored underglazes is her favorite way to finish her pieces. During her time in high school she has attended Highland Art Day and an art workshop at Washburn University.”
“My name is Rachel Seuell and I am a Senior at Shawnee Heights High School. I have always loved art and knew that one day I would learn to paint. Although I have been painting since my Freshman year, I don’t think that day came and I truly learned how to paint until this year. My grandmother has always been one of my biggest inspirations because she is an amazing artist. I am so captivated by natural and beautiful things, and I like to paint things how I see them. Painting is my passion, and I will keep painting and loving art for the rest of my life!”