Photography At Watchung Hills Regional High School

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Photography Watchung Hills Regional High School
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To meet the National Standards in Visual Art,
students must learn vocabularies and concepts
associated with various types of work in the
visual arts. As they develop greater fluency in
communicating in visual, oral, and written form,
they must exhibit greater artistic competence
through all of these avenues. In grades 9 12,
students develop increasing abilities to pose
insightful questions about contexts, processes,
methods and to express sophisticated ideas about
visual relationships using precise terminology.
They can evaluate artistic character and
aesthetic qualities in works of art, nature, and
human-made environments. They can reflect on the
nature of human involvement in art as a viewer,
creator and participant.

National Standards of Arts Education.
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• Built upon the rich history of photography as an
  art form and having at its base the principles
  and elements of visual art, WHRHS photography
  program provides opportunities for students to
  use industry standard technology to create visual
  images that communicate meaning and make artistic
  statements.

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Photography Instructors Vincent Colabella Mr.
Vincent Colabella follows in his fathers
footsteps as an art educator. He holds a BFA
from Pratt in Photography and has worked as a
commercial photographer for 25 years specializing
in portraiture for editorial and advertising.
Before coming to WHRHS, he taught at Marymout
College, Upsala college, Parsons School of Design
and Pratt. Mr. Colabellas work has been
published in American Photo, Leica Fotographie,
Fotografiea Italiana and others. His work has
been and continues to be exhibited in numerous
galleries. Mr. Colabella has published two books
Creative Approaches to Photography and
Photographing People and Sightings. Joan
Thomson Mrs. Joan Thomson hold a BA in Art
Education from Glassboro State College and a MA
in Fine Art from Kean University. She began her
teaching career in Bernardsville and Plainfield
teaching middle school. In addition to her
accomplishments within the photography program,
Ms Thomson is the ceramics specialist for WHRHS.
Her work is shown throughout the New Jersey and
New York area. Ms. Thomson believes that teachers
must continue to study and does so herself each
year at Peters Valley Craft Education Center in
Layton, NJ.
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Gallery of Student Work
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