High School Art Show
Submit art from your formative years and the stories behind it to gina@ginafitch.com
High School Art Show performs live!
Email gina@ginafitch.com for bookings.
SUBMIT a photo of a piece of art you created during high school and tell us all about it!
You, the contributor, created the art, and are able to include memorable details about the piece.
Please copy and paste this questionnaire into your submission form at http://highschoolartshow.tumblr.com/submit. Then fill it out to the best of your ability and include it along with the image of your submission. You may also email your submission directly to gina@ginafitch.com. In which case, please copy and paste this questionnaire into a new document and return it as an attachment along with the image of your submission. Your submission will be edited before it’s published.
While you do not have to answer every question, the more you share, the better we’ll be able to tell your story! To that end, please add anything else that you would like us to know about this piece of art’s existence.
Your Name:
Email Address(for follow-up questions; will not be published):
High school attended:
Hometown:
Title of piece:
Media:
Approximate date created:
Was this an assignment?
Was there a primary source of inspiration for this piece?
Who was involved or influential in its production? These could be teachers, classmates, family members, friends — even enemies!!!
How were you feeling when the piece was created?
What music, films or other media were you into at the time?
Did you encounter any obstacles when making this piece, and if so, what were they?
Were you happy with the end result?
What do you feel the piece says?
What do your loved ones say about this piece?
Where are you now, both geographically and in terms of how you spend your time or support yourself?
How did making art as a teenager impact your adolescence? Your adult life?
Does studio art still excite you?
Please tell us anything else you would like us to know about yourself and your submission.
Thank you so much for taking part in High School Art Show. We look forward to getting acquainted with your submission, and you.
Sincerely,
Gina and Kate - Creators, High School Art Show
HIGH SCHOOL ART SHOW
High school was the worst. Chances are the art you made there was, too. High School Art Show (HSAS) is a collection of self-portraits, still-lifes, scribbles, and sketches that were created by the angsty, the passionate, and the unaware. It’s the shoebox in your childhood bedroom that you could never throw away, and aren’t you glad you didn’t?
High School Art Show is a heartfelt yet silly way of showcasing teenage art. HSAS accepts submissions (photos or digital scans) of original works created by the contributor during high school. Contributors answer a series of questions designed to provoke detailed memories. Stories are edited by HSAS to capture a tender moment in a person’s upbringing. Anecdotes are then posted to tumblr with their corresponding artwork.
As a book, High School Art Show would be a compilation of hilariously heart-wrenching images of adolescent art and their backstories. The HSAS tumblr would continue to exist during and after the book’s release, leading to additional volumes, perhaps broadening internationally. A celebrity edition could make a must-have coffee table book.
High School Art Show is accepting submissions! High School Art Show is an online museum that displays the most ridiculous, sad, tortured, or just really bad art from our unfortunately unforgettable years.
Click http://highschoolartshow.tumblr.com/submit to present your artwork for review!
Back-story and or history of the object are welcome. Explanations of how you were feeling when you made the piece, what music were you listening to at the time, and if you were watching Empire Records are all helpful details.
Thanks and I look forward to seeing how sad you once were.
-Gina Fitch, Museum Curator
This blog is a museum of art from a horrible time period that should only be revisited through perspective and figure drawings, through landscape paintings and self-portraits gone wrong! This horrible time is called High School and this is its Art.
Enjoy the Show!
