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
For the month of September, Xpress Plugged In will feature a four-part Best Of series. Each week the spotlight will focus on the 10 best pieces of art, photography, writing and 3-D work published in XPI from August 2009 through July 2010. Student grades and schools are based on the date the work was originally submitted.
The Reaper Rides, pencil
Kaitlyn Little, 10th grade, River Ridge High School, New Port Richey
An Itch You Can't Scratch, chalk pastel and charcoal
Jacqueline Amick, 12th grade, St. Petersburg Catholic High School
Salt Dragon, watercolor, salt and marker
Wade Ferris, first grade, Christ the King Catholic School, Tampa
Pillows, Coffee, Memories, digital painting
Anastasia Magloire, 11th grade, Land O' Lakes High School
Family Time, mixed media
Amanda Hunter, 12th grade, Seminole High School
Deluged Axion Leading Impudent, mixed media
Mary Williams, 11th grade, East Lake High School, Tarpon Springs
Just Sittin' Around, watercolor and colored pencil
Maleia Melone, third grade, Espiritu Santo Catholic School, Safety Harbor
Drop Me a Ladder, oil
Sarah Evans, 11th grade, Shorecrest Preparatory School, St. Petersburg
Tear, drawing
Jiamin Yu, 11th grade, Dixie Hollins High School, St. Petersburg
Home Grown, tempera paint
Emilie Abbott, eighth grade, Progress Village Middle School, Tampa