The Second Story Gallery will feature art by students from Camas High School’s Integrated Arts and Academics program in February, in a show the artists are calling “3 Print Methods x 3 Artist Voices.”
The colorful prints will be unveiled at a First Friday reception Feb. 3. The show will continue through the month of February in the gallery upstairs in the Camas Public Library.
Participants in the innovative IAA program at Camas High School have the opportunity to study connections between academic concepts and themes, while integrating those lessons with the arts.
According to IAA Program Leader Gina Mariotti Shapard, this makes their learning more connected, relevant and personally meaningful.
The art prints originate from an interdisciplinary unit on the theme of “Voice,” according to Shapard. This year, students studied political and artistic expression. The freshman cohort learned about artist Andy Warhol in preparation for a visit to an exhibition at the Portland Art Museum. They then chose current pop culture subjects of their own generation to create multi-color, reductive linoleum prints.