Week Eight

Celebrating Scholastic Winners

Last weekend students were celebrated in the West Central Michigan Regional Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. We will find out next Tuesday if any of our Gold Key winners received National recognition. If we do, it will be the 5th year in a row that a BCPS student has!

It was pretty amazing to celebrate the success of BCPS Visual Artists and the other winners from around our region.

Here is a list of the winners from our 7-12th grade program: 

High School (45 awards):
Krista Bartholomy (Gold Key, Drawing; Silver Key, Drawing)
Abigail Brouwer (Honorable Mention, Painting)
Leah Cook (Gold Key, Drawing)
Emmaleigh Crumback (Honorable Mention, Photography)
Lauren Daly (Silver Key, Ceramics)
Lauren Doyle (Silver Key, Jewelry)
Kennedy Emmons (Honorable Mention, Ceramics)
Alyssa Jones (2 Silver Keys and 4 Honorable Mentions, Ceramics; Honorable Mention Art Portfolio)
Emma McCloud (Honorable Mention, Digital Art)
Alexis Perdock (Honorable Mention, Ceramics)
Ethan Pipe (4 Gold Keys, Digital Art; 1 Silver Key, Architecture)
Thomas Sadler (Gold Key, Silver Key, and Honorable Mention in Photography)
Tristan Sharp (2 Gold Keys, 3 Silver Keys, 1 Honorable Mention in Ceramics; Silver Key in Art Portfolio)
Tian Ruoxi (Silver Key, Digital Art)
Anna VanderLaan (Silver Key, Photography; Honorable Mention, Digital Art)
Kennedy VanLierop (American Vision Nominee, Digital Art; Gold Key Art Portfolio, Gold Key, Photography; Gold Key, Digital Art; 2 Silver Keys, Photography; 3 Honorable Mentions, Photography; 2 Honorable Mentions, Digital Art)
 
West Middle School (30 awards):
Damien Afienko (Honorable Mention, Painting)
Alayna Arms (Honorable Mention, Jewelry)
Hannah Barney (2 Honorable Mentions, Fashion and Painting)
Brandt Bobeldyke (Silver Key, Film and Animation)
Abby Boyle (Silver Key, Film and Animation)
Clayton Brown (Gold Key, Film and Animation)
Carmen Davidson (Silver Key, Mixed Media)
Kenzi Feuerstein (Honorable Mention, Film and Animation)
Matthew Garbarino (2 Honorable Mentions, Digital Art)
Avery Heron (Honorable Mention, Jewelry)
Samantha Kitchen (Silver Key, Film and Animation)
Maddie Lange (Honorable Mention, Film and Animation)
Shelby Lubbers (Silver Key, Film and Animation)
Sophie Millhouse (Honorable Mention, Architecture)
Ella Perry (Silver Key, Film and Animation)
Lindsey Peters (Gold Key, Fashion; Silver Key, Photography)
Ella Petit (Silver Key, Sculpture)
Jenny Phung (Honorable Mention, Film and Animation)
Magnus Smith (Gold Key, Film and Animation)
Colton Sommers (Silver Key, Comic; Honorable Mention, Mixed Media)
Merrick Susan (Honorable Mention, printmaking)
My Tran (2 Honorable Mentions, Photography and Jewelry)
Justin Walter (Honorable Mention, Architecture)
Corinne Wayman (2 Silver Keys, Mixed Media and Drawing/Illustration)

#WIP

Students are working on a new theme this week that deals with the questions: Where are you going? Where have you been? After taking some notes about landscapes and working through sketches, students settled on ideas and began to get to work. It was fun to see students easily dive into this project now that they have one already under their feet. 

Help Our Classroom

If you find these posts of mind helpful, I would kindly ask you to help us in a couple of ways - don't worry some are simply a click of the button. 

First, we have three student films up for competition in the Meijer Great Choices Film Festival. Unfortunately, I got my dates mixed up and missed the whole first week of voting, so we are VERY behind. Please take a moment and help us catch up by voting daily until the 24th. Videos with the most votes can earn grants for their classrooms. To vote, you will need to login through Facebook and then use the links below to vote by clicking on the vote button.

Here are links to the three videos: 

Snacking Nightmare:
http://k8.meijergreatchoices.com/gallery?entry_id=224827

What is Character?
http://k8.meijergreatchoices.com/gallery?entry_id=224803
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​Stronger:
http://k8.meijergreatchoices.com/gallery?entry_id=292501

The other way you can help is by donating to our current DonorsChoose project that is acquiring resources for our upcoming Fine Arts Night. Donations made were being matched by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and now there is only about $375 left to go. Any amount will help, so please give what you can!