Monsters, music and carnival mayhem at annual school art fair
Wareham alumna Sophia Maniglia, center, performs with other students and music teacher Jason Roth, to her left. Photos by Nick Mossman
Tape Art is a Providence, Rhode Island-based creative duo who with schools and other organizations to create tape murals.
Part of the featured carnival-inspired tape mural at the art fair.
As the kids say, "6-7!"
This carrot-like creature was brought to life in sculpture form.
These monsters were imagine by elementary schoolers and brought to life by high school artists.
A sculpture of a converse shoe created by Ryan Dame.
Walls of art were displayed at the high school on Thursday, May 21.
The high school band invited alumni, like Malachi Samuels who graduated in 2024, to play with them.
Wareham alumna Sophia Maniglia, center, performs with other students and music teacher Jason Roth, to her left. Photos by Nick Mossman
Tape Art is a Providence, Rhode Island-based creative duo who with schools and other organizations to create tape murals.
Part of the featured carnival-inspired tape mural at the art fair.
As the kids say, "6-7!"
This carrot-like creature was brought to life in sculpture form.
These monsters were imagine by elementary schoolers and brought to life by high school artists.
A sculpture of a converse shoe created by Ryan Dame.
Walls of art were displayed at the high school on Thursday, May 21.
The high school band invited alumni, like Malachi Samuels who graduated in 2024, to play with them.
The halls of Wareham High School were filled with monsters, music and carnival-themed tape art during the school’s annual “Celebration of the Arts” fair on Thursday, May 21.
Students showed off all types of artistic works which included poetry, band performances, student-made food, sculpture art and a large tape art mural spanning multiple walls inside and outside the building.
“We’ve kind of got all the arts represented here tonight,” high school art department chair Amy Dion said.
Dion said that over 150 students worked with the Tape Art organization on Wednesday to put the carnival-inspired mural together, which she said took the whole school day to put together. Tape Art is a Providence, Rhode Island-based creative duo and arts organization founded in 1989 by artists Michael Townsend and Leah Smith.
The mural featured circus animals, clowns and acrobats made by students at Wareham High School. The movement uses low-adhesive tape to temporarily transform public buildings and spaces into massive murals.
The art wasn’t limited to high school students either. One of the collections included monsters that were hand-drawn by elementary schoolers and brought to life by high schoolers who made them into 3D sculptures.
“The elementary kids get to create their monsters and draw them and imagine them,” said art teacher Colleen Cuneo. “And they send them over and my kids get to then create them into sculptures.”
Cuneo said that high school students get to take a bit of artistic freedom transforming the monsters from 2D to 3D creatures.
“It’s just a fun collaboration project where they get to create a monster and turn it into two different types of art,” Cuneo said.
High school sophomore Ingrid Beaudoin displayed a collection of art from her Advanced Placement art class portfolio.
Beaudoin said that part of her portfolio focused on the influence of animals in mythology and the connections between animals today and what was written long ago. Her collection included a hand-made spider on a mannequin.
“Clothing and art really is how I express myself, so I made this mannequin which the spider is climbing, ” Beaudoin said.
Aside from art creations, students also performed excerpts from the upcoming high school production of Mean Girls, ran a poetry table and snacked on dishes made by the school’s culinary program.
“The kids did such a great job,” Cuneo said. “…Obviously it’s all their art work, and then they do all the work setting up, they did all the cooking, so it’s a lot of work by them.”
