Exeter-Milligan Update: Art Department

 Natalie Meyer

Saydee Kassik

News from the Exeter-Milligan Art Department

By Lisa Kanode, E-M K-12 Art Instructor

Congratulations to the following GFWC State Contest winners!

Kindergarten              Saydee Kassik, First place Third Grade

                                     Natalie Meyer, Second place Junior High

Printmaking           Dravin Birkes, Second place Acrylic Pop Art                Dravin Birkes, Third place

High School

Batik                      Colton Bossaller, Second place Mixed Media   Katherine White, Second place Chalk Pastel        Katherine White, Second place Sculpture          Peytan Brandt, First place

   Photography         Katherine White, First place and Best of Show

The E-M art students are wrapping up their contest entries and taking home their artwork as we are nearing the end of the school year. We had many students recognized for outstanding art thanks to the Exeter Area Women’s Club for collecting and judging the artwork. There will be one more display this year of Kindergarten- 4th grade art that will not be going home in the students’ portfolios as we have been asked to submit artwork to the Fillmore County Fair display again this year. These works of art will be returned to the school after the fair and I will send them home next school year. I am extremely pleased with the growth of so many of our talented young artists. From the beginning of school until now each elementary class has worked in a variety of media from tissue paper collage and foil sculptures to printmaking, watercolor techniques and paper mache. The 7th graders have art first semester and E-M offers 4 levels of art in high school. The high school students worked on a variety of things as well from agamographs and chalk pastel portraits to batik designs and fiber coil baskets.

We have recently started working on spray paint that was introduced in January at our

Cohort day with a workshop by Nate Bockus. Art IV student Colton Bossaller has wanted to work with spray paint and it is finally time to give it a try. We display the artwork in our schools, on twitter and on our online gallery called artsonia. Each year the parents have to give permission for the artwork to be made public on artsonia but you can see years of artwork created by our Exeter-Milligan students. Thanks so much for supporting the arts and encouraging creativity in our communities and among our youth.

Pictured are Saydee Kassik and Natalie Meyer with their award winning artwork.