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.
High Class Trash, ceramics
Katie Fredrickson, 12th grade, St. Petersburg High School
A Thousand Little Peaces, sculpture
Joseph Quartetti, 11th grade, St. Petersburg High School
The Taste of Music, earthenware clay, acrylic paint and wire
Samantha Schmid, 12th grade, East Bay High School, Gibsonton
Dog House, ceramics
Kelsey Anderson, 12th grade, Freedom High School, Tampa
Tree Spirit, sculpture
Christian Dyer, 12th grade, Shorecrest Preparatory School, St. Petersburg
Hand Built Vessel, ceramics
Albert McCoy, 10th grade, PCCA at Gibbs High School, St. Petersburg
Geisha House, mixed media
Maxine Martinez, eighth grade, Progress Village Middle School, Tampa
The Cat, sculpture
Christopher Kennedy, 12th grade, Gibbs High School, St. Petersburg
Inside Out, ceramics
Laura Unger, 12th grade, Newsome High School, Lithia
Libre, mixed media
Sarah Walston, 11th grade, Steinbrenner High School, Lutz