Here's another classic. I took both honor's art courses in high school, both of which feature an art show near the end of the year. Kids from AP and IB both have booths strewn about the gymnasium filled with their own pieces, and the two days on which it takes place is almost like a holiday; The lion's share of teachers spend their entire hours, if not that, the majority, taking their kids to the gym just to look at the (oftentimes under construction) setup and artwork.
The actual show took place afterschool, set with dimmed lights, catering, and soft orchestra, rather classy stuff. Very high traffic, lots of familiar faces, really the only positive aspect of taking the course because Mrs. Hanson has to be the biggest, most artistically ignorant bitch on VHS' tenure and every unit we covered sucked. Anyway, I decided to try something different the second time around and do a sort of live painting show, with a 3'X3' square of drywall and some black and white paint. The result?
This painting now resides in the ownership of a good friend of mine, who even took it with him to Illinois to decorate his apartment when he was in art school. The fact that people have my artwork adorning the mantles and walls of their abodes is one of the universe's greatest pranks.
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