Cam has been invited to be a part of the National Awards Celebration and Ceremony at Carnegie Hall in NYC June 1st-2nd and his work will be a part of a two year Art and Writing exhibition that will travel the country.
BCWMS had two National Scholastic Medalists for this year's competition. Nearly 320,000 works of art and writing were submitted this year and only the top 1% earned this acclaim at the national level.
Cam has been invited to be a part of the National Awards Celebration and Ceremony at Carnegie Hall in NYC June 1st-2nd and his work will be a part of a two year Art and Writing exhibition that will travel the country.
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You can vote once per day until the 25th. It was a great Saturday as I watched some of the most creative Michigan teens be recognized for their work in the 2016 West Central Michigan Regional Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. It was one of the most packed ceremonies I can remember as the speakers took a moment and framed the accomplishment for those in attendance. The featured speaker, Dr. Adam Schuitema (Associate Professor of English at Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University), helped frame the accomplishment for this year's winners as he invoked the names of Scholastic alumni like Truman Capote, Sylvia Plath, Lena Dunham, Robert Redford, Andy Warhol, and more. He praised students for taking the risk in sharing their work and competing in this prestigious competition which has a 94 year tradition. In his talk to students, Dr. Schuitema made note of the courage creativity takes and how much hope it brings to all of us to see these students share their talents as they look to find new solutions for the future. In addition, he shared the statistics from this year's Awards: 1,667 individual Art entries received 428 individual Writing entries received 45 Art portfolios received 22 Writing portfolios received 859 Awards granted: 5 American Vision 5 American Voices 179 Gold Key 262 Silver Key 408 Honorable Mention In addition to sharing the names of notable alumni, this year's award ceremony also had a former Scholastic Writing winner, Ken Burns, share encouragement and words of wisdom via video. He ended his video welcoming this year's winners into the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards family. It was exciting to see some of the winning work be displayed as winners were announced and to know that of them, many are from BCPS. Not all of our students were able to attend the ceremony, but here are some images from those that were. It was especially fun to see my past students Emma McCloud, Tommy Sadler, Krista Bartholomy, and Kennedy VanLeirop continue their Scholastic success and win as high school students. This is always a special day for me and my students. It is a time to celebrate accomplishments and recognize the hard work it took to earn their awards. It is also a great time to view the accomplishments of others and be inspired to think about what is possible next. I had such a great time talking with parents and meeting extended family members as we admired the creative courage so many students shared for this year's awards. I am very excited to find out if any of our Gold Key winners have National Medals in their future when we find out those results on March 15! Until then we will be still smiling from the great accomplishment achieved this year and may even start planning for next.
Tonight was the MAEA Region 9 Highlight Show at the Grand Rapids Art Museum. This is one of my favorite times of the year because it is show season and student work is popping up all over downtown venues.
The MAEA show is made of up student work from kindergarten through 12th grade and was selected by jurors. As a teacher, I am allowed 5 pieces to put into consideration per grade grouping. This year, I selected 5 works from Middle School and 3 from High School. Out of the Middle School grouping, three were selected and two will move onto State show and competition. Out of the High School work, one was selected and will move onto the State show and competition. As it is with any competition, it is hard to know what will be selected. I try to select works that are unique in style, material use, or meaning made by the student. Regardless of outcome, I am proud of all of the pieces entered this year! What makes this event so special is seeing the faces of parents and students as they view their work and the work of so many other accomplished student artists. Today was the Region 9 Adjudication for the Michigan Art Education Association. I entered works for both middle school and high school and I am excited to announce the following winners: Their work will be featured in the Region 9 show at the Grand Rapids Art Museum on February 11th and the State qualifiers will move onto to the next round of competition which will be announced in March. This is the first year I have submitted only works from the choice-based work I have been doing with students. I am proud that each one of these winning pieces was dreamt up by each student to reflect their interests and abilities.
BCWMS has had Top 15 award-winning students for the past three years with two finishing in the top spots last year! Good luck to this year's State qualifiers! Today was a day students have been working towards since the start of school (and some even earlier than that). We found out whose work was recognized for the West Central Michigan Regional Scholastic Art Awards. Our Byron Center 7-12th grade Visual Arts program had a stellar year, breaking our previous record of award-winning works! You can see the full list of winners here. The following are pieces from my 7-12th grade students that will be honored at the celebration March 5th. The thing that makes me most proud of these works is that all were imagined, designed, and executed by my students through their hard work and willingness to push further with materials and ideas. I am so thankful to the TAB community for encouraging this type of teaching in all classrooms. I feel so fortunate to have finally adapted a more open model in my classroom so that works like the ones below could come to life. American Vision NomineeGold KeysRiley DeJong, Jewel Richardson, Abby Boyle, and Abbie Clum What is Beauty? Jewel Richardson and Gabby Vitali The Little Crayon Silver KeysLexi Brummel, Cameron Rabideau, Austin VanderMarkt, and Alexis Wierenga Be the Sun Gabby Vitali, 8th grade: One Tenth Honorable MentionJessica DeRidder, Katie Hauch, and Sarah Koenes What if? Denver Lahay, 8th grade: Choose to be Good All Gold Key winning works will now move onto the next phase at the national level and we will be notified of outcomes by early Spring.
If you have any students awarded, please share the work and celebrate the success with us! This is a great competition with an over 90 years of honoring students' creative ideas and skills in the classroom! I am not going to sugar-coat it; this first week back from break has been rough. Each morning has been a little harder than the one before to get out of bed and be energized for school. Luckily I have some of the best students out there to help me bear with the transition back to limited bathroom breaks and the rush that occurs as we tie things up before the end of the term. Because we only have two more weeks before exams, it is important to finish up loose ends and get one last project in there before we say our final goodbyes. Here is what we have been working on this week and some thoughts on the eve before the announcement of West Central Michigan Scholastic Awards: Empty BowlsI used Holiday Break as a perfect opportunity to catch up on firing our bowls that were glazed in preparation for our annual Empty Bowls event. This year will mark the 9th year of the event and we are planning to try some new things in hopes to keep it fresh and the community involved. What stays the same is how much students love the fact we use clay on the first day of class to make these pieces and how impressed I am with their ability to see the connection art can have to impacting others in a positive way. Several students already brought in donations so they could claim their bowl! Here are a few of the finished bowls and thoughts from my students on the experience. You can see the full gallery here. Mwansa: his was a good experience making the bowls because it made me think about how some people don't know when their next meal will come, and It makes me want to do something nice for the community. One way we are helping with empty bowls is, by doing this people donate money to the foundation, and they community enjoys a good time with the food and music. Alexis: In my art piece, I made a bowl that says be happy on the inside, and has a rainbow city on the outside of the bowl. This art piece is more than just a bowl. This bowl will be one of many that will be used for the less fortunate and people who don't know where their next meal will come from. These bowls will help our community by bringing everyone together in a community and to help the needy. This is the reason we make the bowls. Its to help our community. Porter: This empty bowls brings the community together because the bowls are given away if you bring a thing of canned food. Then after all of the canned food is collected they donate them to a food bank. The bowls that the students created give other kids in need that aren't fortunate. We are helping our community and bringing our society by giving to kids that aren't as fortunate. Empty bowls is a create way to donate goods, and bring our community together Something OldFor our final project of the semester, students have been given the theme "Something Old, Something New." This theme challenges them to look through their Artsonia portfolio (some students could go back to works from 1st grade) and select a work to reimagine. Students were asked to think about how they might use a different media to interpret the previous work, or switch up the composition, or even use a similar media, but focus on showing new skills and growth in the way it is used. Before getting to work on their sketches, students also viewed the work by Takashi Murakami. He is influenced by the past and present and discusses this merging of ideas in this video, which students viewed. Students then worked in their sketchbooks, conferenced with each other, and then presented ideas to me before finally diving into their final works. We will be finishing up this project next week before we move onto Final Exam prep, but here are some snapshots of work in progress so far: Scholastic ThoughtsTomorrow Kendall College of Art and Design will post the outcome of this year's West Central Michigan Regional Scholastic Awards. Regardless of what happens, this is the most excited I have been for a result since I started entering student work in 2008. I am super proud of our kids either way and look forward to sharing the news of the results tomorrow. If you are antsy, like me, and do not want to wait for a post, you can always go here at noon tomorrow and see for yourself!
I want to wish all of my Art Teacher friends much luck as they await their students' results, too! If your students are recognized this year, please do share the results! The Scholastic Art Awards are right around the corner, with submissions due early next week. BCPS students have participated in this annual competition since 2008. Each year, I wonder how students will manage to top the year prior, especially since last year was our most successful with the third most pieces recognized in our region and three of our students receiving medals at the national level. I think our chances of topping the success from last year is as good as it could ever be, though. Students have stepped up to the challenge, creating some of the most innovative, evocative, and skillfully crafted works I have seen over my years of encouraging students to submit. The following works are not all of the pieces we are submitting, but a sample of some of the great work that will represent BCPS when we compete in the 2016 Scholastic Art Awards! Last weekend, I had the opportunity to share with other teachers at the MAEA Annual Fall Conference. This year, the conference was in our neck of the woods in downtown Grand Rapids. I took advantage of that opportunity and presented at four sessions as well as attended all kinds of different workshops to help improve my teaching. ComiCon was also in town and it was very entertaining to see fans dressed as their favorite characters around the convention hall. In additional to all of this, students who participated in the ComiCon art competition had their work displayed at DeVos Place. It was really neat to see some of my students' works on display and I am thankful for the teachers who took and posted these pictures on the MAEA Conference Facebook Page. This year marks the fifth year for the annual Sooper Art Competition. This environmentally themed competition asks students to render works based on concepts and ideas inspired by nature. Out of 400 works submitted from 29 schools in the state, BCWMS had four winners from the 48 awarded! It was fun to see the five student works from our district recognized and also enjoy the works on display in the current exhibition at the Grand Rapids Art Museum!
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