Elementary, middle school, and high school students explored art in 3 dimensions with Britni Reeves.
Marker landscapes. art teacher, Britni Reeves, helped students focus on texture and rhythm in these landscape drawings using markers as their medium.
Students studied Piet Mondrian and created images from their own lives using his style as inspiration.
Second grade students worked with art teacher Britni Reeves to create abstract drawings of the day and nigh sky.
Art teacher Britni Reeves helped students create portraits of animals found within the village.
Shem Rose Koonooka works with high school students in Sivuqaq (Gambell) to make traditional clothing. They are working on parkas, warm-coats made with a variety of fabrics and furs. This is a huge undertaking for these young people and comes after a year of independent and collaborative sewing projects in which their classes produced many smaller articles of traditional dress.
Even though each student is working to make his or her own product, they join together laying out, measuring, and cutting patters because these young adults know the extra hand and extra eyes are needed to get it just right. Their final product will be warm, durable, and traditional clothing they can be proud of.
Students learn technical skills and use modern sewing technologies.
Sivuqaq students take pride in their work, perfecting their stitch to create durable, high quality products that will last for many years. -- Sivuqaq Parka-Making Project, 2020.
Students make careful stitches and line up their patturns so the lining and outer layer nest evently in the final product.
Students sew with traditional materials.
The Sivuqaq Parka-Making Project was made possible by the generous funding from the Ciri Foundation, the Alaska State Council on the Arts, the Alaska State Legislature, the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency), the Rasmuson Foundation, and the Bering Strait School District. It is a part of the New Visions initiative.
Symmetry line drawings
WeRNative posters for Suicide Awareness and Prevention. Learn more at www.wernative.org
Art teacher: Sally Grimsrud
Artwork inspired by: Kimmy Cantrell, William Johnson, Clementine Hunter, Basquiat, Faith Ringgold, Ashley Bryan, and Tyree Guyton
High school students used current events happening in the U.S. and across the globe to inspire these clay masks.