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Early in my career, I have learned that if I want to implement something into my curriculum, then I need to cater it to my students. It is important to use a resource that will engage them in the learning process, to put them into a situation where they would need to utilize the knowledge they have learned thus far in real-life scenarios, to effectively navigate the web to seek specific information, and to make inferences based on information presented. Read more.
How we approach the art of muraling at our school makes a difference on how others view it. It is centered around creativity, originality, collaboration, presentation, and professionalism. One way of achieving this is by designing our murals to be aesthetically pleasing, meaningful, and supported by our curriculum with the same intensity as one of our art units. Read more.
One of the best approaches that I see as life-changing is integrating advocacy with the business side of art education. If you take a close look at how a business operates, you will notice that we experience similar objectives in art education. For example, who is our audience? What makes us stand out compared to another art program? In what way can we attract new students? How can we retain current students? What successes have our alumni accomplished? Read more.
After learning and discussing French painters in class, students chose a French artist to research, and present to their peers. Included in their presentation they had to create their own original art pieces based on sources of inspiration from their chosen artist and research.
Gallery
About the NHS ARTifacts Gallery
The NHS ARTifacts Gallery was launched at the beginning of our 2013-2014 school year. The gallery is designed to provide all North High School staff the opportunity to showcase their students’ work in a professional exhibition space by infusing art into their curriculum. This exhibition space is facilitated, organized and installed by the Sheboygan North High Art Department.
Join us Friday, April 5th from 6-8pm for an art exhibition featuring over 100+ student works of art ranging from 2-D to 3-D. The following art programs are participating: Central High School (Mrs. Matter), Sheboygan North High School (Mr. Juarez), Sheboygan South High School (Mr. Sommersberger), and Tower Program (Ms. Higgins).
EBCO ArtWorks is located at 1201 Erie Avenue in Sheboygan.
Doors open at 5:50pm.
Here is a sampling of what North will be exhibiting.
See you there!!!
While getting familiar with couple of teachers and their classrooms I have been working on some painting studies as well as continuing work on a series of tapestry inspired mono-prints. These prints are built using the screen printing process, I intuitively work to compose these minimal compositions with balance in mind as I play with color and shape to develop the compositions. My work is inspired by light and color of nature, compositions reflect broken down or minimized ideas we find in our surroundings.
April 5 – 13, 2019
EBCO ArtWorks, 1201 Erie Avenue, Sheboygan, WI 53081
Artist reception: Friday, April 5, 6-8pm
Press Release
Sheboygan, Wisconsin (March 8, 2019) – Central High, Sheboygan North High, Sheboygan South High, and Tower Program are pleased to present “High School Art Spring Exhibition”, an exhibition featuring artwork from high school students.
This high school art exhibition celebrates the creative vision and artistic voice of our student artists. It will feature 100+ pieces of student artwork created this school year based on the art teacher’s respective high school art curriculum. It will also feature works created outside of the classroom. Works will range from traditional media to experimental media including drawings, paintings, mixed media, collage, fashion, 3-D works, and so on. Art teachers participating are Lizabeth Higgins (Tower), Frank Juarez (Sheboygan North), Antoinette Mattern (Central), and Brian Sommersberger (Sheboygan South). This is their first collaborative art exhibition bringing four art programs together.
This exhibition runs from April 5 – April 13, 2019, with areception on Friday, April 5 from 6-8pm. EBCO ArtWorks is located at 1201 Erie Avenue, Sheboygan, WI 53081. Come meet the student artists and their art teachers. The gallery will be open on Saturdays, April 6 and April 13 from 11am-1pm.
For further information on this exhibitionplease contact Brian Sommersberger at bsommersberger@sasd.net.
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Work by Amy Sherald
Mr. Juarez co-edited the April 2019 Issue of SchoolArts Magazine. This is his second time co-editing.
Bottom left corner: drawing by Emma Wilson, grade 12. Design inspired by the work of Albert Chamillard.
Bottom right corner: a quick lesson inspired by the work of Albert Chamillard.
This article was written by Ms. Cavanaugh, Social Studies teacher and Poetry Advisor. For the past 4.5 years her poetry students responded to the work of our artist-in-residence. They would read their poetry during the artist’s reception.
Craig Grabhorn lives and works in Sheboygan, WI. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin- Stout, he is currently employed as Community Arts Residency Coordinator with The John Michael Kohler Arts Center. He was born and raised in rural Minnesota and has made a career as a practiced designer, printmaker, painter, curator and arts organizer.
His work is inspired by a meditative exploration or observation of place and the opportunities within our natural surroundings. Through intensive listening he translates environment into material works, including prints, paintings and sculptural works. Objects he creates are often tools or vehicles of exploration, used to help capture and interpret the emotions and opportunities he finds.
Since moving to Sheboygan, Craig has been communing with Lake Michigan and the expansive horizon in a photography project titled 50over50atmos. This meditation was inspired after a two year retreat in the hills of the Driftless region to study and create a print series exploring the an- cient landscape. The 50over50atmos project documents the ever changing colors, surfaces and atmosphere of Lake Michigan as a daily capture from the same location on the shore. The prac- tice of watching with an intimacy, fuels a passion to find connection to local environment.
Craig will be with us for our Spring 2019 semester. We look forward to working with him.
Image courtesy of the artist.
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