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 4/12/2010
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 Two: High School Winners
High School Award for Excellence
Deluged Axiom Leading Impudent, mixed media
Mary Williams, 11th grade, East Lake High School, Tarpon Springs
Phoot, charcoal and white Prismacolor
Karla Diaz, 12th grade, St. Petersburg High School
Bonsai Baby, plaster
Penelope Acton, 12th grade, Tarpon Springs High School
Closer to the Sun, ink on paper
Lauren Olinger, 11th grade, Shorecrest Preparatory School, St. Petersburg
High School Award for Merit
Feminine Fusion, digital art
Arianna Dubauskas, 12th grade, St. Petersburg High School
Drop Me a Ladder, oil
Sarah Evans, 11th grade, Shorecrest Preparatory School
Unchained Melody, clay
London Hampton, 12th grade, Northeast High School, St. Petersburg
Handy Man, mixed media
Camilla Byrd, 12th grade, Seminole High School
High School Award for Honors
Evolution, clay
Zach Sladden, 12th grade, Seminole High School
By the Fire, acrylic
Cameron Sewell, 12th grade, Northeast High School, St. Petersburg
Gavin, digital photograph edited with Photoshop
Christian Hamburg, 12th grade, Northeast High School, St. Petersburg
Honey I Caught the Rat, clay
Kylyn Cervenka, 12th grade, Boca Ciega High School, St. Petersburg