October 21, 2016
Ceramic Frames
These frames were more difficult than I’d imagined to construct! Students made a paper pattern first and then traced their design onto clay slabs. The photos slide into a little compartment in back and all the frames have a way to be hung too! Thanks students for your patience and creative designs!
Chad Quinn
Chris Kingsland
Tyler Goddard
Steven Osborn
Olivia Carney
Kalista Rodriguez
Walker McKnight
Sadie Lindquist
Meghan Mullaly
Trapper Allen
Nathaniel Basallo
Angela Tinker
Sophie Dow
Brendan McMurray
Allie Tollof
Basil Dougherty
Naomi Ifflander
Natasha Tolbert
Beau Freiberg
Emma Moore
Zen Petrosius
Forest Matheson
Akilena Veach
Nicole Charlie
Shalonda Vent
Kaylee Brockman
Heleana Backus
Braden Lane
Kobe John
Robert Chapell
Linnea Hribernick
Winter Richie
Clara LaRock
Sarah Meinema
Mikayla Dumars
Dana Van Slyke
Daisy Terry
Eliza Goddard
Jack Gunther
Raven Stevenson
Krisnan
Elena Hamner
Nele Hohenstein
Ruby Lindquist
Case Estes
Maddy Moore
Jessi Hood
Joshua Park
Jaylon John
Justin McMurray
Alexis Sullivan
Egor Sturdy
Kamryn Pack
Jacob Lodzinski
Alex Ursel
Brooks Berry
September 26, 2016
Egyptian Art For SMAF
If you went to the Seward Music and Arts Festival this past weekend, you got to see this Egyptian themed art in real life! This truly is a community centered event, with Seward El, Middle and High School students all helping by creating decorations. Here are some of the High-schoolers pieces:
Heleana Backus
Mycah Ebberson
Ruby Lindquist
Nele Hohenstein
Emma Moore
Linnea Hribernick
Hayley Unrein
Sholanda Vent
Maddy Moore
Zen Petrosius
Beau Freiberg
Ernesto Montoya
Dana Van Slyke
Alexis Sullivan
Gabby Keeter
Egor Sturdy
Josh Park
Kaylee Brockman
Daisy Terry
Meghan Mullaly
Rebekah Christenson
Lindy Guernsey
Basil Dougherty
Emilia Whitcome
Forest Matheson poses with the King Tut Sarcophagus Collage made by Seward High and Seward Middle Students!
Thanks for supporting this event and we hope you had fun 🙂
February 4, 2016
Ceramic Hands
For our first project in SHS’s Ceramics Class and SMS Art Class we went back to basics – the human hand. Hands have been connected to our personal identities and to our humaness since we lived in caves. Seward High Students took inspiration from henna designs, hand tattoos, folk art, and anataomy to name a few. Great job!
Human hands printed by spraying paint through bone-made pipes over a hand pressed against the wall. Cueva de las Mano, Argentina, circa 7300 BC
Allie Toloff
Jacob Hall
Riley VonBorstel
Trapper Allen
Simon Estes
Sully Hauze
William Storle
Hunter Allen
Ashley Guernsey
Blaze Havnen
Kjell Nilsson
Nick Woodard
Sequoia Sieverts
Lydia Jacoby
Cameron Bunch – Galaxy Hand
Bekah Christenson
Kyrsten Johnson-Gray
Sabrina Spiers
Coral Petrosius
Clara LaRock
October 12, 2015
First Quarter Ceramics
Seward High Ceramics Class has been up to a lot this quarter! They began by making paper mache circus animals to decorate the Seward Music and Arts Festival. This involved drawing out patterns, projecting them onto large sheets of plywood, cutting the parts out with jigsaws and routers, constructing the wooden forms with screws and nails, adding the muscle and flesh with newspaper and chicken wire, paper mache-ing the outside, and painting! Here are some process shots!
After all that work, they finally began with clay, and the first assignment was to create a sculptural container with a removable lid:
Megan Mullaly
Nathaniel Basalo
Nicole Charlie
Brandon Suddath
Justin Croft
Roma Hamner
Emilia Whitcomb
Tyler Goddard
Megan Mullaly
May 5, 2015
Paper Mache Projects
Paper Mache is a beautiful problem solving exercise – for any form you build, you need some sort of mold to drape the soggy paper over. We used balloons, balled up newspaper, egg cartons, cardboard, tin foil, paper towel rolls, etc for our forms. Our Paper mache recipe was wood glue + water. High School students were given freedom on what to make, and look at all the cool things they came up with!
Julia Lindberg
Brandon Lynch
Jessica Fry
Clara LaRock
Maddy Rea
Jasmyn Calhoon
Gabe Bignell
Bekah Dean
Zen Petrosius
Mondo Ramirez
Andy Hughes
Elannah Camp
February 19, 2015
Middle School Grid Portraits
This quarter, I have the pleasure of teaching 6th graders art (plus the lovely 8th grader Julie German)! Our last project was inspired by Chuck Close, an artist who uses grids to draw amazing portraits on a large scale. Check out their work!
Onaangel Williamson
Julie German
Katelyn Sawyer-Lemme
Nick Katsma
Paola Baez
Matthew Stanley
Marisa Phasomsap
Gunnar Davis
Levi Deboard
Araya Fejes
Max Pfeiffenberger
February 13, 2015
Mount Marathon Designs
It was only January but SHS Art class was already working on Mt. Marathon logo designs. The Seward Chamber of Commerce set rules: 4 colors, including Mt. Marathon Race, July 4th 2015, 88th Running, Seward Alaska, and Finisher! This was a cool exercise in local pride and graphic design for my students, here are some of the top ones! None were chosen this year but we will definitely enter again next year!
Erin Lane
Kim Leavitt
Kriziel Sarmiento
Emma Moore
Ruby Lindquist
Josh Wood
Kiana Clemens
Ryan Johnson
Clara LaRock
Brandon Suddath
Tyler Zacher
March 7, 2014
Graphic Design
Here are a variety of Projects from SHS Graphic Design Class made using Photoshop:
Hybrid Animal Ads
Andie Morell
Carrie Anderson
Grant Orvis
Jon Valencia
Dakota Nickell
Reid Broughton
Concert Posters
Alice Pfeiffenberger
Carrie Anderson
Dakota Nickell
Grant Orvis
Kinze Hauze
Logan Smith
Nickalus Walker
Victoria Piro
Money
Kinze Hauze
Dakota Nickell
Grant Orvis
Jon Valencia
Logan Smith
Victoria Piro
Pop Art
Carrie Anderson
Jon Valencia
Reid Broughton
Victoria Piro
Great joB!
Aboriginal Style Dot Paintings
Seward High Art Students looked South to Aboriginal Australians for inspiration for a painting project. The indeginous people of Australia have been creating works of art covered in dots for tens of thousands of years. They dip sticks into pigment to stamp out dots historically on bark, rocks, logs, and today on canvases. These dot patterns tell stories and map out journeys.
SHS Art Students created paintings for the National Oceans Science Bowl Art Show with Ocean themes . We drew out our designs, painting solid color down, and then used paint pens to decorate with dots. This was a super fun project and they all did a great job!
Jasmyn Calhoon
Rhett Sieverts
Kelsey McKean
Justin Schutter
Brandon Moore
Dustin Newman
Darci McFaul
Ryan Johnson
Erin Doty
Erin Spradlin
Roma Hamner
Elannah Camp
Grace Callicut
Cassidy DeLand
Michael Walker
Diana German
Kinze Hauze
Erin Lane
Brittany Baldwin
Dakota Nickell
Zack Maly
December 19, 2013
Mandalas
Seward High art students all made designs with radial symmetry, looking to the mandalas of the east for inspiration. We used compasses, protractors and rulers to design the rough drafts, some drawing by hand and others tracing images to make even designs repeated around a center point. They ended up using all sorts of media, colored pencil, oil pastel, paints and markers and really did a great job!
Josh Dotomain
Tessa Lyman
Ashley Whiteshield
Alyssa Leisure
Darci McFaul
Hannalyn Ohlsen
Rachel Tougas
Izzy Barnwell
Sara Tolson
Shyanne Washik
Jessica Fry
Logan Smith
Moriah Doepken
Vitali Sturdy
Anthony Gibson
Zane Zimmerman
Catelynn Hettick
Michaela Osenga