Naperville Central Art Department

Congratulations to Osiel Aldaba for his photograph "Social Isolation" being included in the Congressional Art show! Please vote for your favorite images by giving that image a "Like."

A big congratulations to Aanya J. & Henry R. our two National Silver winners in Scholastic's Art and Writing competition!!!

The new Fine Arts Video is here! Mr. Padgett really out did himself. Check it out!!
https://youtu.be/a5N9VfCeLK0

Naperville Central Fine Arts Courses 2019 This video highlights the Fine Art courses that are available to take at Naperville Central High School!

CONGRATULATIONS to Christina, Hannah, and Eric for winning a NATIONAL MEDAL at the 2019 National Scholastic Art & Writing Awards!

Today is the day! The Scholastics Opening reception is at Downers Grove North High School from 1:00-4:00. Come support all of the NCHS winners!

Let's do this! Make Fine Arts a part of your day in the 2019-2020 school year! https://youtu.be/S6We0h8ZA0M

Fine Arts Course Selection Video 18-19 Naperville Central High School has a large selection of art and music classes to choose from. Please take a look and enjoy! TAKE ART!

We had a fun time on our Photography One field trip to Chicago!

napervillecentral_art🚨ATTENTION REDHAWKS 🚨 (AND ALUM!!) Join our 🎃 RULES 1) make a drawing in ink 2) post it 3) tag on Twitter or on Instagram 4) repeat everyday

Intro to Printmaking is wrapping up the course with a print exchange! Congratulations to our students on their outstanding work this summer!

The printmaking class is working on screen-printing today! Be sure to sign up for Printmaking next summer!!!

The printmaking class is exploring Lithography today! Lot's of amazing prints!!

Some awesome samples of Chine-Colle and Intaglio printing from the new printmaking summer class!

Having fun with solar printing in the summer school Printmaking class!

Summer school is in full swing! Mr. Padgett and our students have been busy! Check out some of the wip. Design Concepts: Frank Lloyd Wright inspired carved ceramic tiles & Intro to Printmaking: insect themed relief prints.

Hello Everyone, the painted heart sculptures have been installed in Downtown Naperville!!!! Check out the awesome images! Be sure to vote for NCHS's heart titled "Ingenium!" Vote in the following link: http://downtownnaperville.com/sculptures/

Raku day is in full swing! We ❤️ Raku Day!

A HUGE thank you to our visiting artist and guest judge for the Annual Senior Art Show, Prof. Michael Barnes from NIU School of Art. Prof. Barnes, a printmaker, shared some of his work from varying stages of his career including some drawings from high school, some artist in residencies from around the globe and his current body of work. We loved every minute of it!

Current NCHS students come check out the wild and wonderful work of visiting artist Michael Barnes!!! Stop by room 54 during your lunch period 5th or 6th hour to see his presentation. More information in the invite below:

Check out some of Ceramics 3 student's Toy themed teapots! Great work Charlotte, Olivia, Grace and Miriam!

Some fun with Writing with Light in Photography Two!!

Is anyone else hungry?

It's CAW week! Mr. Padgett wants to know what Art classes you are signing up for next year. Watch for Art Department special events and activities all week!

🎵It's beginning to look a lot like... 🎶 Photo 2 working on their bokeh projects!

Some fun with manipulating images in the darkroom. Lot's of dodging & burning, and double-printing.

Some pinhole camera images from Photography One. All you need is a shoe box, a pinhole, and some photo-paper (and tape, lot's of tape).

Rakuuuuuuu Day!!

Stop by the Naperville Art League today from 1:00-3:00 for the closing reception of the D203 Art Instructor show. Nearly 20 Art teachers on display!

Viewing Day! Watching and discussing student films in Mr. Padgett's Film and Video Arts class.

Are you following us on Instagram? Head over there to see student work and more hilarious pictures of Mr. Hodge.