Welcome to the Hub for the Arts at City High School (Tucson, AZ)
The purpose of this site is to provide connections, information, and opportunities for artistic development at City High School. Art students can use this site to get information about assignments and projects, see work by fellow students, find links to important resources, and discover opportunities to share their work with the local and global community. Students can also communicate and share ideas with each other in the embedded forums during in-class discussions or outside of class (click the "Video Productions" tab for an example). Contact Jason with any questions or comments.
CHS ART NEWS...
City High School Welcomes Student Teacher of Art
Kari helping a student with book binding
We are pleased to welcome Kari Imoro from the University of Arizona's Art Education student teacher program. Kari brings a wealth of experience to the City High Arts classes and has been sharing those experiences with students since she started at City High in January. She is a former Peace Corps and Americorps teacher and is currently a Master's candidate at the UofA in Art Education.
Kari will be leading or assisting in unit instruction in all of the City High Arts classes this semester including a 'Cause' unit in Graphic Arts where students design logos, promotional characters, and posters for a local cause or issue.
Stories That Soar Book-Making Project Set to Begin
CHS students reading the finished books to the student authors
Entering its 3rd year, the Stories that Soar book-making project is a collaboration between City High School and SharMoore Productions. The project involves student writers of elementary school age submitting their stories that are chosen for illustration by City High School students. This year the CHS Graphic Design students will team up with CHS Photography students to illustrate the young writers' stories. The stories will be coming from students at Sam Hughes Elementary and upon completion of the project, City High students will visit the young writers to share the books with them.
1st Whole-school Film Fest a Success!
Student filmmakers at the
2011 "As We See It" video festival
City High School held its annual video festival, "As We See It" in May at the Screening Room, 127 E. Congress. Unlike previous years, this year the festival was open to the whole school (not just the Video class). The program included videos produced in the the 10th grade Humanities class as a part of the innovative "The Civil Rights Era as Our Neighbors Lived It" project. The "Civil Rights..." project was funded in part by a grant from the AZTEA/Qwest foundation.
The program also included works from VOICES, the after-school program at City High.
The City High Video Productions class organized the event and supplied many outstanding videos as well. The class is taught through a community collaboration between City High School and Pan Left Productions, the preeminent, progressive media cooperative in Tucson.
Selections from this year's festival can be seen on City High's YouTube channel.
