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 4/05/2010
Spotlight on Student Surrealists
The Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg and Xpress Plugged In are pleased to present the winners of the Pinellas County Student Surrealist Art Exhibit, a juried competition of Pinellas County middle and high school art students. Through this exhibit, the Dalí Museum recognizes and celebrates the talent of Pinellas 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.
PINELLAS SSAE 2010
Part One: Middle School Winners
Middle School Award for Excellence
Movie Night with the Family, colored pencil
Roma Ostman, eighth grade, Thurgood Marshall Fundamental Middle School, St. Petersburg
Flowers of the Dead, oil pastel
Melisa Trockels, seventh grade, Oak Grove Middle School, Clearwater
Middle School Award for Merit
American Smoothie, oil pastel on paper
Justin Le, eighth grade, Pinellas Preparatory Academy, Largo
Family Tree, clay/acrylic paint
Zeyna Hadidi, eighth grade, Thurgood Marshall Elementary School, St. Petersburg
Middle School Award for Honors
Dream, pastel
Marlissa Curley, seventh grade, John Hopkins Middle School, St. Petersburg
One Way Conversation, pastel
Jordyn Zentz, seventh grade, John Hopkins Middle School, St. Petersburg