XPI Student Showcase
Welcome to Xpress Plugged In, our new online gallery of student expressions. Please follow the submission instructions CAREFULLY. New work will be posted every Monday.
-- Nancy Green, editor of XPI
Selections for the Week of 2/15/2010
Spotlight on Student Surrealists
The Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg and Xpress Plugged In are pleased to present the winners of the Hillsborough County Student Surrealist Art Exhibit, a juried competition of Hillsborough County middle and high school art students. Through this exhibit, the Dalí Museum recognizes and celebrates the talent of Hillsborough County students and their art teachers. In anticipation of the new Dalí Museum opening January 11, 2011, this year's theme is "Home, Surreal Home." This theme invites students to reflect on the meaning of home from a dreamlike or irrational perspective, exploring new ideas as they employ creative methods and concepts inspired by Dalí, his surrealist contemporaries and similar visionary artists.
HILLSBOROUGH SSAE 2010
Part One: Middle School Winners
Middle School Award for Excellence
Geisha House, mixed media
Maxine Martinez, eighth grade, Progress Village Middle School, Tampa
Home Grown, tempera paint
Emilie Abbott, eighth grade, Progress Village Middle School, Tampa
Middle School Award for Merit
Who Let the Dog Out, colored pencil and paint
Haley Babbitt, seventh grade, Wilson Middle School, Tampa
Dali's Exotic Fish Bowl, colored pencil
Ashley Denslow, seventh grade, Mann Middle School, Brandon
Middle School Award for Honors
A Look Back in Time, colored pencil
Maria Larias, seventh grade, Wilson Middle School, Tampa
Eye of Wonder, colored pencil
Nadine Lawton, seventh grade, Mulrennan Middle School, Valrico