January 08

Birmingham Southern's Regional high School Art Show

This past weekend marked the opening of the 30th annual Birmingham-Southern Southeastern Regional High School Art Competition and Exhibition. This is a prestigious art show and extremely competitive drawing work from all across Alabama and neighboring states. There were over 300 works of art submitted to the show and just over 100 accepted.

SPHS accounted for 20 of these accepted works of art.
Of the works accepted, SPHS students received 3 awards and 2 honorable mentions!

Here is a gallery from the show

K Lansden, drawing
K Little, drawing
K Wilcoxson, mixed media
J Mark Alston, drawing
Z Zinger, drawing
J Miller - ceramics
A Strickland – ceramics
K Wilcoxson, painting
L Jett, drawing
J West, painting
E Jones, photography
M Tanner, photography
A McComb, digital collage
K Stewart, digital collage
N Jackson, photography

Award Winners:
Amy McComb, painting
Victoria Williams, ceramics
Wade Collier, painting

H Mentions:
S Sidwell, photography
L Jett, photography

January 07

Success at Birmingham Southern's Regional high School Art Show

Spain Park Art students recently participated in the Southeastern Regional High School Art Competition and Show. Spain Park was invited to show eight pieces, which is a great accomplishment considering that the show attracts the best student art from Alabama and many neighboring states. Approximately 300 works of art were submitted. There were 100 works selected. Recieving Honerable mentions for their work were C Selman and S Moffett.

October 06

C Selman second place in the "Love your Body" poster contest.

May 06

March 06

Two digital photography students have had their works selected to the Alabama State House Student Art Show. The works from Abby Garver and Jason Quinn will be displayed in the Alabama State House for a full year, along with students' work form around the state. A ceremony will be held in their honor on March 14th.

February 06

Four student works were selected for the 2006 State Superintendent's Visual Arts Exhibit. This prestigious event will be held from February 17 to March 3rd, in the Old Supreme Court Library of the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery. Selected for this honor were the following students' work ; Michael Columbus for digital photography, Paul Orman for graphite on paper drawing, Leah Kay for prisma color on gray paper drawing and Jamie Cartledge for collage.

Photography student Elizabeth Allen had here work chosen for the 2006 Annual High School Competition at Alabama State University. The competition commemorates Rosa Parks' involvement in the Montgomerey Bus Boycot.

January 06

More Success at Birmingham Southern's Regional high School Art Show

Spain Park Art students recently participated in the Southeastern Regional High School Art Competition and Show. Spain Park was invited to show thirteen pieces, which is a great accomplishment considering that the show attracts the best student art from Alabama and many neighboring states. Approximately 34 high schools participated of which 400 works of art were submitted. There were 238 works selected. Mr. Cooley’s student Madison A. Disalvo won a place with a mosaic covered vessel. Mrs. Childers’ students: Chase Goodwin, Kelly Harrington, and Erin Zeanah won four places with drawing and painting. Erin Zeanah was honored by winning two places. Mr. Myers’ students: Lindsay Lagrange, Eli Cockrum, Elizabeth Cotter, and Brittney White won four places with digital imaging and photography. Mrs. Ripp’s students Hunter Milling, Benjamin J. Thompson, and Catherine Warnat won three places with their Advanced Ceramic pieces and Hunter Milling won an award of merit with a cash prize. Mr. Roos’ students: Ashley Lovell and Amber Wilkerson won two places for their drawings. An awards ceremony and the opening of the show were on January 15, and the work will be on display at Birmingham Southern College, Kennedy Art Center, Mon-Fri. 8:45 A.M.-4:30 P.M., through January 28.

January 05

Spain Park Art Students Receive Awards and Recognition

Art students at Spain Park High School have been recognized for their creations at several different competitions this January. At a southeastern regional art show, hosted by Birmingham Southern University, junior and senior students had fifteen works accepted to the show. This was a great accomplishment considering that the show attracts the best student art from Alabama and many neighboring states. Over 300 works of art were submitted of which 120 works were selected. Art IV and AP students had eight works accepted in various media including printmaking, drawing and painting. These students include Nick Dolce, Brigham Godfrey (two works), Morgan Sawyer, Kevin Tate, Zak Taylor, Rachel Turner and Adam Westenhofer. Mr. Myers’ Digital Imaging and Digital Photography students provided the other seven works in photography and digital art. These students include Daniel Easley, Igor Khot, A Minor, L Reeves, Kevin Tate, Chris Whitehead and Adam Westenhofer. An awards ceremony held on January 9th further recognized the work of several of these students. Zak Taylor won an award of merit and a cash prize for his relief print. Allison Minor won an award of merit and a cash prize for her self-portrait photograph. Adam Westenhoffer won an award of merit and a cash prize for his digital art as well as an honorable mention for his charcoal still-life drawing. The work will be on display through January 28th in the gallery at Birmingham Southern University. Three of Students were also recognized in the Birmingham Art Association’s Birmingham’s Best High School Show: “Visions of Unity”. Nick Dolce, Adam Westenhofer and Daniel Easley all received 2nd place honors as well as cash awards for their work.

February 05

Several students of Mr. Myers' Digital Imaging class at Spain Park have recently had their work selected for various shows around the state. A Monceret won third place for his photograph of an Abercrombie & Fitch zipper in the 9th and 10th grade photography category, at the recent State Superintendent art show held in Montgomery. C Bevis, S Young and A Minor all had works accepted to the annual State House Art Show. These works will hang in the Alabama State house in Montgomery along with 47 other works submitted by students of all grades from throughout the state. These students were honored at an awards ceremony on March 15. Here is C Bevis and A Minor with their artwork. Shelby Young's self portrait can also be seen at the Birmingham Museum of Art's Youth Art Month exhibition along with other Spain Park artists Erin Zeanah, Ivanova Yuliya and Cassie Warnat.

March 05

Congratulations to C Bevis and D Dimuro, their artwork has been selected to represent the district in the upcoming state art show and competition in the categories of digital art and print making.

April 05

"Bubble Balls" by CBevis was chosen as the best of classification in computer images at the 2005 Visual Arts Achievement Statewide Exhibition! The work will be on display from April 4-29 at the exhibition hall in the RCA tower in Montgomery. There will be an awards ceremony at the State Council for the Arts on April 29th. The work will also be on view at the state website- www.artsAlabama.org