I think the Echo Art Show was a great success. Almost every single art, tech, design and media student had their work (or works) up on display. Some of the work was incredible and deemed fit to be in a gallery while others…well they got some criticism. All the work was made using hard child labour paid for in units. But I don’t think the students minded the child labour. 
They (and by that I mean me too) got our reward through our good marks and the fact that our art was displayed in the exhibit. Unfortunately, the entrance fee of $4 through off some people and made them keep away from the show. In the end, the show rose over a $1000, or so I’ve heard…. That’s not too bad but pretty bad compared to what I expected. I thought that at least every student would come to see the show and support the art department. That alone would give us around $4000, not including the teachers, the parents and the students from other schools. Oh well, I think it was a great success, lets see what some other people thought: -"It was good but not as good as last year. They could have put more work and etc. (because it felt kinda empty in some places)." -Beatrice Tan
-“ The amount of people that showed up was very under whelming in comparison to other years, yet the content maintained the high level of consistency that had become synonymous with Mary Ward art shows.” -Jason Ng Lee
-“ Although I enjoyed going through Echo, I really wish they had more art to display.” -Stephanie Sarmiento
-“It was very nice…lots of great artwork.” -Vernon Szeto
- "I think the Echo was really good, overall. Even though there were many 'last minute cramming, I think it was able to successful come together in the end. Shout outs to the makers of A Walk in the Park, Wild Card, and Sixth Ripchord." -Brian Millado
- "I thought the show was unique" -Angelique Malcolm
Personal Contributions:
Well, being an art student myself, I had quite a few contributions to the art show. Since I take media and visual arts, I had more works than some others. From my media course, I had my hybrid, photo-collage and storybook put up. The hybrid was myself fused with an animal…not going to say which one because mine’s was pretty bad. The photo collage was a collage of pictures, taken by me and from the Internet, which explained a fortune from a fortune cookie. The storybook was a book that a couple of other friends and myself made to explain an ecological disparity. My group did our book on zebra mussels!
From my art course, I had three pieces up too: my print’s, my painting and my weird slidey thingy… The prints were made from carving a piece of soft linoleum, inking it and pressing it onto paper. I carved mine into Bob Barker! The painting was to be of a tree but with us “jazzing” it up. I made it morph with buildings and random junk. My last piece was called “Sliding Fate” and was supposed to be in the McMichaels Art Gallery but due to the fact that it was interactive, they said they couldn’t put it up. So we got it back for our art show.
Thoughts:
Well I thought the overall show was pretty good. I personally prefer last years since it had more interactivity and the movies were funnier. The best part about this year’s show was the mini golf. Too bad it broke down after the second day. I almost liked the storybooks; they were quite interesting and some were hilarious. Other than that, thanks to all who participated and made this art show one more for the books!
And now for some other random pictures i thought were pretty cool:
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