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North High Art Department hosts the 1st Annual WAEA Art Teacher Idea Exchange

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On January 14, 2012, North High School Art Department hosted its 1st Annual Art Teacher Idea Exchange hosted by the Wisconsin Art Education Association and local WAEA members, Carol Rokicki of North/South High School and Brian Sommersberger of Random Lake Elementary School worked together along with Lee Amborn of Black River Falls Middle School to develop an open invitation to K-12 art educators in the North East Region, which included local colleges and private schools. Lee Amborn has been doing the Annual Art Teacher’s Idea Exchange in his district for the last 28 years.

Carol and Brian thought it would be a wonderful opportunity for art teachers to get together and exchange ideas/lesson plans and instructional thoughts. Those who participated were told to bring numerous copies of one lesson plan plus visual samples. Teachers were also asked to bring one “teacher tip” to share. Participants were excited about having the opportunity to see different ideas and approaches to art instruction. About 10 art educators attended the 1st Annual Art Teacher’s Idea Exchange from various grade levels and districts. The 2nd Annual Art Teacher Annual Idea Exchange is already being planned for next year.

Brian Sommersberger is currently serving as WAEA’s North East Regional Vice-President. Carol Rokicki is currently serving as WAEA’s Secondary Representative.

Click here to view video and see photos of this event.

The End is Fast Approaching

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We are about 97% finished with the AIDA banners. The only thing that is needed are the addition of text and minor finishing touches. Working on this project was not an easy task for this group of art students working with different personalities and various degrees of work ethic and not to mention motivation. Overall, the banners are turning out great. I cannot wait to unveil them.

submitted by: Mr. Juarez

The Final Stretch

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Everyone is almost done with the banners. Its tough staying on task now that its been a couple weeks but all of the students are doing a great job. The four banners are just getting some finishing touches and we will be all finished up. Its exciting thinking about how far we’ve come and how cool the banners will look hanging as the backdrop for the play.

Submitted by: Sarah B.

The Egyptian Ladies

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We have finished drawing the entire design and have started painting. It’s really going pretty good. We have started on the skin tone, and the other shade of brown on the type. Of course gold, the gold it really a really cool color, all shiny and what not, but the gold is oil based, which means that it dose NOT come off you hands like acrylic. We are doing good on progress and will finish on time if not earlier. This is going to turn out amazing. We have and awesome group and every one works well together.


submitted by: Annya E.

Thee Egyptian Ladies

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Hey, do you wonder what’s new with Thee Egyptian Ladies? Well so far, we’ve traced the drawing onto the canvas, and are preparing the paint. Now the thought of just looking at the image and drawing it onto the canvas was a bit challenging, so we made a grid to help us effectively scale the egyptian female. The result was magnificant, and now our next step is painting. So until next time, best of luck to us!

Work in progress

Submitted by: Minah L

Sarcophagus

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We picked the sarcophagus and drew it. I like the colors of our design and the different egyptian patterns we made. We drew the side view of the sarcophagus, one shaded and the other colored.

one of our proposed sketches

Submitted by: Kyanna B.

The Egyptian Ladies

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Our group has put to use everyone’s ideas to create a masterpiece of the egyptian women. By incorporating everyone’s ideas, we are all able to take credit for our artwork, which no one is left out. Our outline for the chosen artwork was based on royal cards. Also, we decided to put a “slave” version of AIDA on one half and the “royal” version of her on the other half of the rough draft, following the concept of a royal card.

One of our proposed sketches.

We incorporated the colors that was listed under the color scheme into our artwork. The reason for our border and writing AIDA in Egyptian letters was to add an effect to the Egyptian theme.

Submitted by CharlesX

Egyptian Cat

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Our group’s topic was an Egyptian Cat. For our designs we had a large cat, one was a straight on view and the other was a side profile. We incorporated hieroglyphics into our designs containing the main colors gold, blue, and red. Black and green were also used in creating our designs.

one of our proposed sketches

Submitted by Kristina G

About Anubis

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This week, we began our scenery designs for the upcoming school musical, “Aida.” The theme for our group was ‘other,’ so we chose to do Anubis, the Egyptian God of mummification.

one of two proposed sketches

Our design incorporates Anubis with Heiroglyphics and background designs. We are excited to further our design and have it on display during the play.

Submitted by: Morgan P.