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Elise Fowlkes
Elise Fowlkes
Visual Arts Instructor, Spearfish High School
Ceramics I-IV, Graphic Arts/Design, Digital Photo, Historic & Alt. Photo (Darkroom), Junior Spartan Time
Visual Arts Instructor, Spearfish High School
Ceramics I-IV, Graphic Arts/Design, Digital Photo, Historic & Alt. Photo (Darkroom), Junior Spartan Time
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I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way--things I had no words for.
Georgia O'Keeffe
Tony Voccaro, photograph of artist Georgia O'Keeffe adjusting her canvasAlbuquerque, New Mexico, 1960
I just learned it [pottery] for myself. I learn it with my, I think my whole heart.
-Maria Martinez.
Julian was a real artist, a real painter. He used to fill little notebooks with ideas for designs—he carried it wherever he went.
-Santana Martinez
Maria and Julian Martinez
San Ildefonso Pueblo, NMMaria: 1887-1980, Julian: 1887-1943
I am still learning.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Sistine Chapel ceiling Apostolic Palace, Rome (Vatican City) 1508-1512A few notes about grading / grades in Campus
A few notes about grading / grades in Campus
I understand the way grades appear in Campus can be confusing. Please feel free to contact me.
The grades for all of my classes are a running point total, SEMESTER grade.
Look in "term 2" or "term 4" to veiw in-progress assignments and grades.
Please see course syllabi for information about:
Missing and late work
Time-frames for re-taking quizzes, etc.
Please look at notes and flags added to assignment grades in Campus.
MOST "missing" work for this class is flagged as "incomplete."
*Campus calculates all "missing" assignments as zero points. I don't always want this. "Incomplete" allows me to modify the point value.
2025-2026 Courses
2025-2026 Courses
Ceramics I-IV -- Graphic Arts/Design -- Digital Photo -- Historic & Alt. Photo (Darkroom) -- Junior Spartan Time
CERAMICS I-IV
Room #78
CERAMICS I-IV
Room #78
1st Semester: M1, M2, M3
2nd Semester: M1, M2, M3
Course Syllabus
Ceramics Syllabus 2025-2026 (1).pdf
Important Deadlines for all Ceramics Classes:
Important Deadlines for all Ceramics Classes:
All Greenware on "Kiln Ready" shelf: TBA
Last Bisque firing: TBA
Last Glaze firing: TBA
Graphic Arts/Design
Room #114
Graphic Arts/Design
Room #114
1st Semester: W1, W4
2nd Semester: W4
Course Syllabus
Graphic Design Syllabus 2025-2026 (1).pdfDigital Photo
Room #114
Digital Photo
Room #114
1st Semester: W3
2nd Semester: W2
Course Syllabus
Digital Photo Syllabus 2025-2026.pdfHistoric & Alt. Photo (Darkroom)
Room #114
Historic & Alt. Photo (Darkroom)
Room #114
2nd Semester: W3
Course Syllabus
Revisions are underway.
Photo Signatures and Release Forms.pdf2025-2026 Spartan Time
Room #78
2025-2026 Spartan Time
Room #78
Hello Juniors!
1st & 2nd Semesters: M4
1:45-3:15 quiet study time, homework time, and reading
Junior Spartan Time Expectations
All students are REQUIRED to stay for Spartan Time on the dates below:
1st Semester:
2nd Semester: 1/21, Registration; 5/11, Honors/Awards for 9th-11th
BoBo
Yota
Snow day x-country ski with Yota, to load a kiln
Throwing a Thanksgiving gravy boat with my nephew (when he was 5)
Visiting my most favorite Bernini in Roma 😍
A look inside the Forbidden City, Beijing
Hello to a beautiful Vermeer in Amsterdam
A Caravaggio (in a crowd), Roma
A Salvador Dalí, in the Vatican Muesums
efowlkes@spearfish.k12.sd.us
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