As the year is coming closer and closer to the end, art students are filling out forms for their final competition. This is our most local competition, the St. Clair Art Association Awards. In previous years we have done rather well, including numerous honorable mentions, pieces in the top three, and the 2012 cover award. Our fingers are crossed that an outcome returns as good as our previous competitions. We also, in the past week, received one award in the top ten pieces for the Congressional Art Show. We will not know the piece or placement until this coming Saturday.

The time is running short. Our three senior AP Art students are working very hard as their return date is approaching. On May 6th the students must digitally send in their concentration, pieces that they have been working on for this past school year that deal with one topic that they are passionate about, breadth, a collection of work over the years that displays talent and knowledge of art principles, and quality, five pieces that are the strongest of all their work that get mailed in to the readers. The students are very close to completing this and the stress will soon be gone.

Jordan Kelly - Jordan is working with the role of genders in society and making a statement about gender identity. Jordan is working largely with oil paint, marker, and photoshop for this concentration. 

Faith Gwozdz 

Faith Gwozdz - Faith is focusing on life and death cycle in the animal kingdom. She is a master of media and has been using oil paint, colored pencil, charcoal, and pastels for her work. 

Katie Lensmeyer - She is working with the idea of being contained or trapped both literally and figuratively.  This is fueled by the current young generation that sadly experiences a lot of stress and depression causing them to feel closed in or contained in where/what they are. Katie works strictly with photography.