HHS Friends of the Arts

HHS Fine & Performing Arts

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HHS Students Receive Top Honors in the 2012 Boston Globe Scholastic Art Competition
The Boston Globe Scholastic Art competition received 14,000 entries this year from students in grades 7 - 12 throughout Massachusetts and the following HHS students received awards.
 
Abby Hanus: Gold Key for Printmaking, Silver Key for Painting, Honorable Mention for Photography
Marlee Galloway: Honorable Mention for Painting
Tiffany Harris: Honorable Mention for Painting
Olivia Howland: Honorable Mention for Printmaking
Bri Meehan: Honorable Mention for Sculpture
 
Gold and Silver Key Award work will be on display at the State Transportation Building in Boston,
February 13 through April 20. The award ceremony will be held March 11 at the John Hancodk Hall in Boston.
 

The Guild of Harwich Artists will exhibit February 15-26 at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod with an opening reception Friday, February 17 at 5:00 PM. The Guild artists have been frequent visitors to HHS art classes and were the artists with whom students painted plein air last spring for the

"Painting the Town with Charles D. Cahoon" project in cooperation with the Harwich Historical Society.

 
Harwich Art Teachers Exhibit
Art Teachers, Deb Donovan (HHS), Liane Biron (HHS) and Bernadette Waystack (HMS) are exhibiting work at the Cultural Center of Cape Cod in South Yarmouth as part of "Creativity Flows".

Deb Donovan with one of two pieces on exhibit.
Liane Biron with one of two pieces on exhibit.
   
Bernadette Waystack
The Guild of Harwich Artists is exhibiting in the Great Room and having an opening reception on Friday, Feb 17 beginning at 5:00 PM. February 15-26

 

GREAT NEWS!!!

At its December 13, 2011 meeting, HHSFOTA voted to give the Fine and Performing Arts teachers the go ahead to spend $10,000 to augment the Mobile Apple Computer Lab that HHSFOTA purchased for the department in April 2007 at a cost of $9,384. The vote was taken after careful consideration of successful fund raising events including the Holiday Basket Raffles 2009 & 2011, Rockin' For the Arts, Disney Art Raffle, Ad Booklet 2011 and Bake Sale 12/3/2011. The laptops are an integral part of the program at HHS and enable students to use highly specialized computer programs in music and art.  Thank you to all who helped make this possible - teachers, students, parents, sponsors, alumni and friends! We will keep you posted. 

 

THE 8th ANNUAL ALUMNI SHOW & CONCERT
Friday, January 6, 2012
To view photos courtesy of Clemence Photography click here.

Special thanks to the alumni artists who contributed the works of art that were displayed in the main lobby!

Gillian Smith ‘08
Shawn Sessler ‘11
Paul Donovan ‘72
Ramsey Musk ‘10
Deborah Donovan ‘72
Ron Lindholm ‘71
Laura Smith ‘11
Brian Blackmore ‘77
Liz Wetherbee ‘64
Sweety Panchal ‘11
Danielle Ryder ‘05
Rachel Doddridge-Spring ‘04

Alumni Art Exhibit, January 2012
  
Alumni Concert, January 2012

Thirty-four alumni presented pieces ranging from Brahms to Bon Jovi before performing with the HHS Select Choir, Full Chorus and Concert Band.

 

Listen to and download the mp3 music files here.

Here is Robert Pirtle's (HHS 2010) Slam Poetry Performance:
 
 
More Alumni News:
Kate Heemsoth (HHS 2007) will be working with Rose Richard and Deb Donovan on the spring musical.
   
Ramsey Musk (HHS 2010), a Boston University Art major, presented a self-portrait demonstration
to HHS Art classes.
 
Ramsey's art work on display for the Alumni Art Show.

 

FEBRUARY MEETING:
You are invited to join our fun group of parents, teachers and friends. We always welcome new faces. Our next meeting is Tuesday, February 14, 2012 at 7:00 PM at the 400 East Restaurant in East Harwich. Come early for dinner!

VISUAL ARTS NEWS
The following students had art work on display at the Cape Cod Museum of Art as part of the
Through Young Eyes Exhibit, a K-12 Cape-wide Student Exhibition that ran from
December 10, 2011 - January 15, 2012:
 
Sam Labelle
Abby Hanus
Yasaellie Figueroa
Caitlin Hoban
Tiffany Harris
Katie Chase
Olivia Hoyland
Michael Veary
Bri Meehan
Katie Chase
Michael Veary
 
Olivia Hoyland
Bri Meehan
   

The 2011-2012 Ad Booklet is online here.
Please support our local business sponsors. There is still time to place an ad as the booklet will be available at the POPS Concert (March 6, 2012), Spring Musical (March 29-31, 2012) and the Spring Concert (May 24, 2012). Prices are $25 for a business card, $50 for a half page and $100 for a full page. Contact Liane Biron -

 

DRAMA

Auditions for the spring musical "How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying" were held Tuesday, December 20, 2011. In anticipation of the upcoming merger with the Chatham schools, Chatham High School students were invited to audition.

Rehearsals have begun.

 

MUSIC:

Winter Concert

Thursday, December 8, 2011

 

 

 

Listen to and download mp3 files here.

To view a slide show courtesy of
Clemence Photography click here.
 
All CAPE & ISLANDS MUSIC FESTIVAL - February 2 - 4, 2012 - Barnstable High School
Concert on Saturday, February 4

The Music Department is incredibly proud of the successful auditions for the All-Cape and Islands Music Festival. All Harwich musicians who auditioned made it!

Representing Harwich High School in the Mixed Chorus will be

Sopranos: Juliette Locke, Cheyenne Gingras, Anastacia Athas

Altos: Luz Arregoces

Tenors: Seth Andreasson, Cody Fontaine, Scott Benson, Josh Ford, Dominic Locantore

Basses: Collin Bauer, Tyler Hadfield, Colin Hamilton, Donald Cataloni, Ethan Thacher, Sam Anderson, Billy Fleming

 

In the Women's Choir

Sopranos: Amanda DeOliveira, Hannah Gorman, April Crowley, Lily McMurrer

Altos: Brooke Paulsen, Marissa Donovan, Jessica Blute

 

In the Concert Band

Clarinet: Heather Gallant seated 2 nd clarinet 1 st chair

Annie Flynn seated 2nd clarinet 4 th chair

Morgan Anderson seated 3 rd clarinet 4 th chair

Alto Saxophone: Samuel Hammond seated 2 nd alto saxophone 5 th chair

 

We also had students successfully audition for the highly competitive Southeastern Massachusetts District Music Festival.

Bass: Collin Bauer

Tenor: Dominic Locantore

Dominic also auditioned successfully for the American Choral Directors Association Eastern Division Honors Choir and will be singing in the Latino Repertoire Honors Choir in Providence, Rhode Island in mid-February!

WE ARE SO PROUD OF ALL OF YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HHS Friends of the Arts provided bus transportation for both the auditions for the All Cape & Islands Music Festival and the Southeastern Massachusetts District Music Festival.

 

DRAMA: Students presented - "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" November 17 - 19th. The play was adapted by Rex Stephenson from the novel by Mark Twain. Mr. David Breski was the Director.
All crew members were on stage as part of the cast and some cast members played multiple roles.  Costumes were designed by Mrs. Biron's class. Since some cast members were multiple characters, the costumes included simple changes so they could go from one character to the next without a full costume change. Mrs. Donovan's class worked on the set and figured out how to manage all the scene changes. Mr. Breski's Engineering class created special effects.   
   
To view more rehearsal photos courtesy of Clemence Photography click here.

 


 
DISNEY ARTIST VISITS HHSFOTA
Brian Blackmore, Harwich High School (1977) and Principal Character Artist at Walt Disney Company in Orlando, Florida visited HHSFOTA on Tuesday, September 6 in the Harwich Community Center. Blackmore expressed appreciation for all the support he received from his family and the Harwich community in the pursuit of his dream job at Disney and encouraged HHSFOTA to continue their important work of advocacy for the Fine and Performing Arts at Harwich High School.   
 
Brian Blackmore personalizes illustrations for HHSFOTA members.
 

FALL FUNDRAISER: Thank you to all who attended and contributed to our Fall Fundraiser, Rockin' for the Arts, held on Saturday, September 24, 2011 at the Harwich Port Seafarer. Read a list of donors here.

Very Special thanks to:
Brian Blackmore, Principal Disney Artist, Harwich High School, Class of 1977
Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank
Channel 18
Harwich Chamber of Commerce
Harwich Port Seafarer Staff and the Wiseman Family
Monomoy Regional School Committee
Paul Widegren
Rachel Trieble, HHS 2011
Shawn Custer, Chef, Harwich Port Seafarer
The Total Strangers

 

HHSFOTA mourns the loss of accomplished Harwich artist, Milton Welt (April 17, 1914 - October 1, 2011).
He was a frequent visitor to the HHS Art rooms, a HHSFOTA supporter and an inspiration to all.

Milton Welt painting during a demonstration to HHS Art students and .....

...with the painting he then donated to an HHSFOTA auction.

HHSFOTA is forming a committee to "Save the Milton Welt Mural" that graces the HHS lobby.
We will need folks to help with ideas for location, removal, restoration, and installation.

If interested, please contact us at:

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Harwich High School Friends of the Arts, Inc.  is a non-profit 501 (c)(3) organization.
............................... P.O. Box 775, Harwich, MA 02645