Elise Fowlkes first moved to Spearfish in 1999 to attend Black Hills State University and run cross-country. She has experience working with preschool to high school age learners, and has been a Visual Arts instructor at Spearfish High School since 2013. She thoroughly enjoys creating artwork with students in her photography (digital and darkroom), ceramics/pottery, and graphic design classes. I love helping them view the world with different eyes, develop their critical thinking skills, learn to observe detail, and notice beauty in their daily lives.
I am still learning.
-Michelangelo Buonarroti
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
I just learned it [pottery] for myself. I learn it with my, I think my whole heart.
-Maria Martinez
The grades for all of my classes are a running point total. The grade is a SEMESTER grade.
To veiw in-progress assignments and grades:
-FIRST SEMESTER: look in "term 2"
-SECOND SEMESTER: look in "term 4"
Please see course syllabi for information about:
-Missing and late work policies
-Time-frames for re-taking quizzes, etc.
Please look at any notes and/or flags added to assignment grades in Campus.
-Most missing work for this class is flagged as "incomplete," and WILL NOT SHOW AS "MISSING" if you look in Campus... A note will be added to the assignment that says "missing."
-Campus calculates all "missing" assignments as zeros. I don't always want this. "Incomplete" allows me to modify the point value.
1st Semester: M1, M2, M3
Ceramics I-II PlanBook S1
Ceramics III-IV PlanBook S1
2nd Semester: M1, M2, M3
Ceramics I-II PlanBook S2
Ceramics III-IV PlanBook S2
1st & 2nd Semesters: M4
PlanBook
1:45-3:15 quiet study time, homework time/reading
*Students are REQUIRED to stay for Spartan Time
on dates sent out by the High School.
Senior Spartan Time Expectations
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 Roma
A Salvador Dalí, in the Vatican Muesums
