Hazleton Area High School

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WONDERFUL NEWS!!!

MY SENIOR STUDIO IS NOW A PERMANENT DUAL-ENROLLMENT COURSE! (As of February 14th, 2022)

I have joined forces with Luzerne County Community College to have my senior Visual Art Studio also count as 3 college credits! I am now basically an adjunct professor, and I have aligned my curriculum so that I cover the syllabus of their drawing 1 course (CAR119). Thanks to a government grant, the credits are even completely FREE! This fall it will be free as well, after that, we will have to see if the grant can be renewed. I might even be able to eventually add a 2nd class...Drawing 2 (CAR120) next year, but for now I'm excited that my students will be graduating with 3 free college credits to transfer to the institution of their choice!

Many of the students from my class of 2019 Studio had the opportunity a few summers ago to earn 3 FREE college credits! Through the grant-wizardry and guidance of professional muralist and art professor Mary Veronica Sweeney, and the cooperation of our local LCCC branch, the students now have a college GPA (none lower than an A-!). The course was called "Materials and Techniques", and covered a wide array of styles, and topics. They students especially learned about, and participated in the planning of the next large mural for Hazleton! (Miss Sweeney painted the mural on the side of Hazle Drugs on Wyoming Street.) See the many pictures below that detail some of the great activities they participated in...Hollywood producer workshop, art contest, and more!

This is the projected view of the exterior of the new Art League! That mural has been designed by one of my students Mariluz Rodriguez, and my students will paint it...and earn 3 MORE college credits!!!

Miss Sweeney required the students to participate in the Peace/Love/Chalk Art Contest through the Hazleton Art League. We cleaned up on the Junior Division! 1st Apple iPad and $200+ in art supplies!), 2nd ($200+ in art supplies), and People's Choice ($50 in art supplies)!

Miss Sweeney gave a public demonstration on a First Friday about creating murals. One of my students, Julio, is an assistant that day.

Here she is shown with one of the many Hazleton children who posed for the mural on Hazle Drugs, and the ribbon-cutting ceremony for her mural. Also shown are some of my students helping Miss Sweeny putting the final sealant on the mural.

And the students also met and had a creative film-making workshop with Hollywood producer Christopher Coppola! (Francis Ford-Coppola's nephew, actor Nicholas Cage's brother). They each made a mini movie that was projected on the side of a building along with Coppola's new film on a First Friday in Hazleton!