"For the past three weeks, Production Design has been working on an interactive Valentine’s Day themed art show. Open from February 14th-16th, The Heart Show is a series of rooms and murals meant to represent the different forms of love." -Grace Triantafyllos
For the past three weeks, Production Design has been working on an interactive Valentine’s Day themed art show. Open from February 14th-16th, The Heart Show is a series of rooms and murals meant to represent the different forms of love. The installments include a room full of broken mirrors, a garden room, and a wall displaying the word “love” in different languages.
“...[The Heart Show] is not like a theatre show where you sit down, but you walk through a maze of different rooms that the high schoolers thought would represent love,” says 7th grade Production Design student, Evaline Flamer. There are a total of seven rooms for viewers to enjoy, painted and decorated with murals, rose petals, lanterns, succulents, and even a student-made animation that will be playing throughout the show.
Hours of hard work went into putting the show together, and each student contributed in their own way. “I worked on the mural in the lobby, which will be 2 hands holding the Earth that’s shaped like a heart, with a stork, and the hearts over the Earth. I personally worked on the actually Earth a lot, and the hearts. We had to hand cut all those heart shapes. It took a very long time. Also, we did a lot of shading around the earth, which took a solid week,” says 7th grade Production Design student, Nola Clifford.
“...[The Heart Show] is not like a theatre show where you sit down, but you walk through a maze of different rooms that the high schoolers thought would represent love,” says 7th grade Production Design student, Evaline Flamer. There are a total of seven rooms for viewers to enjoy, painted and decorated with murals, rose petals, lanterns, succulents, and even a student-made animation that will be playing throughout the show.
Hours of hard work went into putting the show together, and each student contributed in their own way. “I worked on the mural in the lobby, which will be 2 hands holding the Earth that’s shaped like a heart, with a stork, and the hearts over the Earth. I personally worked on the actually Earth a lot, and the hearts. We had to hand cut all those heart shapes. It took a very long time. Also, we did a lot of shading around the earth, which took a solid week,” says 7th grade Production Design student, Nola Clifford.
While working on the show, the students came across many trials and tribulations. “Cutting the hearts was a challenge. It took forever. And I think generally just the painting and mixing colors [was difficult]. There’s just so much that you have to do that I didn’t really think of. Like, I would think they’d just have the colors for the hands, but no, we have to make our own colors. And then we mess up so we have to match the color again but it’s not matching so we have to repaint it,” says Flamer.
“The most challenging part of working on the show was actually brainstorming what we were going to paint for [our] mural,” says August Biddle, a Production Design student in the 6th grade.
Though there were disputes among students over the designs and concepts of the artwork, in the end they managed to collaborate and create beautiful pieces. “It was pretty tedious, but it ended up looking pretty good,” says Biddle.
“The painting was really hard to get right, but it was so relieving when we finally did it,” says Stella Tran, a 6th grade Production Design student.
“The most challenging part of working on the show was actually brainstorming what we were going to paint for [our] mural,” says August Biddle, a Production Design student in the 6th grade.
Though there were disputes among students over the designs and concepts of the artwork, in the end they managed to collaborate and create beautiful pieces. “It was pretty tedious, but it ended up looking pretty good,” says Biddle.
“The painting was really hard to get right, but it was so relieving when we finally did it,” says Stella Tran, a 6th grade Production Design student.
“I think actually, despite how much people hated it, [my favorite part] was the painting day. Having lunch was fun. Like, not having to bring any lunch. And we did a lot of different things that we haven’t done before. Like, we painted and we—well, we’ve painted before but [this time] we did actual walls. We’ve never done that before. We just painted pieces of ply wood and boxes and whatnot. So, that was fun. I also really liked using the jigsaw for the first time,” says Flamer.
“The stargazing room, the abstract forest room and the mirror room. They’re just so unique and different from the other ones. When I look at the room, I think, ‘How did they think of this?’” said Tran when asked about her favorite installment from the show.
“The stargazing room, the abstract forest room and the mirror room. They’re just so unique and different from the other ones. When I look at the room, I think, ‘How did they think of this?’” said Tran when asked about her favorite installment from the show.
“My favorite piece from the exhibit is either the abstract forest room or the stargazing room. I think they’re both beautiful ideas that represent love in ways that we haven’t seen before,” says Clifford.
“My favorite room is the red room with the animation. The hand drawn animation was made by the high schoolers. It’s my favorite because it’s a very simplistic room, but it means a lot,” says Biddle.
“My favorite room is the red room with the animation. The hand drawn animation was made by the high schoolers. It’s my favorite because it’s a very simplistic room, but it means a lot,” says Biddle.
