Creative Arts Champlain

The following images are from an assignment given in the Drawing Option class. Loosely based on the format of an exquisite corpse, students were asked to do a self-portrait in three segments. The top segment consisted of a direct form observation portrait of themselves. In the middle segment, they were to consider themselves as something else – either as an animate or inanimate object. And finally they were asked to place themselves in a specific location, environment, or situation.

Here are a few examples of pinhole cameras and the resulting images that were made by photo students in their 2D/3D design class. Most use paper negatives, but the chair actually has a built-in film mechanism.

Below you will find the winning entries from our In Transition/En Transition Creative Arts Contest for high school students. We received a number of outstanding submissions and would like to thank everyone who participated. Emilie Parenteau took top honours with her mixed media book project. Second place prize was awarded to Claudel Routhier for her black and white photograph. Third place went to Caelen Costigan-Roberts for her painting. And an honourable mention went to Milyncia Létourneau Prud’homme.  All the award winners were presented with certificates  at our 38th annual year-end exhibition and film screening. Congratulations to everyone!

These three films explore the idea of the photographic frame and how it relates to time. Forget the Decisive Moment and think about the extension of the temporal.  Andre Lai, Xavier Bleau-Prévost and Caoimhe Beaulé have all created beautiful time pieces for their Image and Light photo option class.

Stillness in Time by Andre Lai

Clementine by Xavier Bleau-Prévost

Daydreamer by Caoimhe Beaulé

The images below, from Melissa Del Balso and Tsz Ho Tsang, are documentations of their time based sculptural interventions – made for a third semester DISA sculpture class.