Fall 2013

Graphic Design: Logo and Corporate Identity

AP Art 2013 Students

Congratulations AP Art class of 2013 on all your accomplishments!

Newest Members of the National Art Honor Society

National Art Honor Society gives back!

Club members volunteered to decorate and run booths for the Halloween Carnival last week for the community of St. Peter's of San Francisco - and had a blast!

Zoo mobile visits Mercy

A branch of the SF Zoo Outreach Program, entitled the Zoo Mobile, came to Mercy! The students in Honors and AP drew from live animals; baby alligator, chinchilla, parrot and tortoise.

Artist Trading Cards

Students in Honors and AP Art participated in the global exchange known as an Artist Trading Card Session.
Students enjoyed the range of images and skilled media displayed in these mini works of art...

Visual Puns

Anatomy Photomontage

Anatomy referenced montage...

Memory Book

Accordian Style Binding for this unique memoir...

Artist Trading Card Session

3rd Annual A.T.C. Session held today for the Honors and AP Art Students as part of the global cultural performance exchanged in artist communities world wide. See below photos and a video from the gallery and performance. For more information on Artist Trading Cards visit http://www.artist-trading-cards.ch/

Welcome Class of 2012

welcome to the Digital Portfolio Website of Mercy High School AP 2D Art students. Here you will find the growing collection of finished works of students ranging as they develop their 2D portfolio. Their websites are located to the right in alphabetical order

Class of 2011

Mercy Artists Visit Corpus Christi School

The senior art students at Mercy High School, as the most advanced Art students in the Visual Arts program, are offering their valuable experience working with young children in the arts, as part of a service learning component to their art curriculum and their membership in the new chapter of the National Art Honor Society here at Mercy. These Honors and AP Art students are dedicated to compassionate service, inspired by our foundress, Catherine McAuley, and have been planning for this visit for weeks.

Our students, guided and directed by their instructor, Nazira Kury-Arnold, visited the Kindergarten/First Grade class of Corpus Christi School in San Francisco, and taught these students Visual Arts on Friday. Corpus Christi is an elementary school in the Excelsior District of SF and is run by an order of the Salesian Sisters. A senior artist was paired with a K/1 student for one-on-one instruction in the Visual Arts, following the California Visual Arts Content Standards for Kindergarten/First Grade. Our Mercy students came up with the lesson plan, aligned it to the Art standards and prepared all the material for this lesson. Art education is a method of discovering each child’s skills and talents, while enhancing their creativity and self-expression. Learning experiences in the Arts contribute to the development of academic skills, including the areas of reading and language development, and mathematics. We believe that this service was not only a uniquely valuable experience for the community of Corpus Christi, but also for our Mercy students. We hope to visit again next month to foster the relationships our Mercy students have begun with their new art students!
See images below!

Mercy Artists Visit Corpus Christi School

Honors and AP Art Students at Cantor Art Center, in Stanford.

Artist Trading Cards

AP and Honors Students had their first Artist Trading Card session, taking part this second annual global cultural exchange at Mercy!
Below you will find a short video of the trading of cards and soon you should find uploaded to student blogs their favorite ATC.Enjoy!

Welcome Class of 2011

AP 2D Studio Art Students are ready for their senior year portfolios!
We have many plans for developing our skills and incorporating service learning to enhance our creative expression.
Stay tuned throughout the year for our progress. Student portfolios are listed to the right.

AP 2D Studio Art Student Exhibit

Ghosting with Gesso

AP students experimented with a ghosting/gesso technique on their first project this semester, "Significant Moment."
Students wrote about a significant moment in their life, covered their writings on bristol and ghosted images over it.
Check out samples in their potfolios!

Cantor Arts Center

Our AP and Honors students visited the Cantor Art Center at Stanford University.

Student have finished their futuristic cityscape and their cut-paper portraits.

Here is Mrs. Kury's Cut Paper Portrait!

Great work everyone!

ATC Session

A Collaborative Cultural Performance.

Our very own ATC session will be on 9.29!

Welcome AP Studio Art Students

Welcome back from summer!
We are all refreshed with concentration ideas and breadth almost completed!