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Keri Bissey and Jade Haggerty were named best of show during the Newcastle High School Art Show held in the Dogie Dome on Thursday, May 14 and Friday, May 15. (Denice Pisciotti/NLJ):
Denice Piseiotti I am projecting I am going to see a significant
NLJ Reporter difference, and that:is why I am excited about
the facilitator position, because I don't want too
Several discussions took place this spring many years to lapse before we start some kind
at Weston County School District #1 Board of oversight," Joshephson explained.
of Trustee meetings about art instruction in The instructor's schedule will be changed to
the district, and the decision was made to free up one period per semester for an advising
have Newcastle High School art instructor period, during which her time will be used as a
Jimmie Josephson facilitate the teaching of Art curriculum facilitator for Newcastle Elementary
throughout the district beginning in the 2015- School, with the possibility of doing the same
2016 school year. thing at Newcastle Middle School.
For ten years, Josephson has been teaching : i"I guess I feel like the sky is the limit to
art at NHS. In the first year she taught, her junior where we go now. If we have all these dif-
and senior students'had been provided with art ferent teachers working with the kiddos, it can
instruction at Newcastle Middle School by almost be Montessorian in nature," Josephson
long-time art teacher Charel Pitts, but when she proclaimed.
retired the way art was taught in sixth through Admittedly, the teacher told the News Letter
eighth grade changed-- and even varied from Journal, she is excited and nervous at the same
year to year. time because it has been a while since Josephson
The same thing happened several years ago has worked with students at the lower level.
at Newcastle Elementary School when the art "I am excited about it! I was also excited
instructor at that school retired, and since that about what I saw in the local show by the
time art has been embedded in other subjects in elementary school projects. I honestly don't
the regular classroom schedule, know if I will have to do much as a facilitator. I
Josephson agreed that art standards can be think the biggest thing is making sure that some
integrated into different core standards for other of the structural standard pieces are there-- the
subjects, and her goa! is to help that happen, vocabulary and the dialogue of art terms--
The instructor noted that it is important to because the production is there," she reasoned.
increase accessibility to content, especially in Continuity is what has '-"enthused her the
today's world of technology, which increases most about working with all'three schools in
the need for individuals to be more visual, the district. Josephson also kn6ws, the program
"There was a significant skill difference-- at the high school will have to adjust to the
foundational ability--between that junior and change represented by her not always being
the sophomore group (in my first year). I guess there, but she predicts the end result will be
And the award goes to
This year's Art Show was moved up a week, which gave families
who visited for high school graduation a better chance to view the
displays in the Newcastle High School Dogie Dome on Thursday,
May 14 and Friday, May 15--just before NHS' commencement
ceremony.
NHS Art Instructor Jimmie Josephson indicated there was only
positive feedback from the change, and expressed the hope that it will
be able to be held on the same week next year because it also gave the
seniors the opportunity to display their work, which was an exciting
change, according to the instructor.
good. Advanced art students will need to be on six panel painting, and it was all I needed in my
independent study programs to accommodate whole life. I know exactly what I am going t9
the new schedule, and while Josephson has do with myself as an artist now because I can
some concern with that aspect, she believes the convey things," she offered.
self-motivated students will keep trekking and For Bissey, her high school art experience
grow on their own. was similar to her classmate's. Because of whfit
A pair of recently graduated high school art she learned with Josephson, she knows that she
students seem to prove that point, wants to be an occupational therapist and later
"I think middle school is where art began to will include art in her formal education because
interest me because that is where I started doing being an artist is part of who she is.
imaginary stuff that didn't work-- to look at "I am not basing my career on art, but in a
somethingand to be able to draw that. I think
different field, so I can help different people
learn and discover. I never want to quit w 0rking
that is what grabbed my interest because that is
what we ' ocused on a lot with Ms. Kettle," Keri with art or quit expressing how artiS important
Bissey recalled, to my life and how it should be vital to kids'
Members of the NHS class of 2015 were lives. I am never going to quit practicing. It
taught art in middle school by Mary Kettle, who is always going to be part of me," informed
structured more formal art education lessons, Bissey.
and both Bissey and Jade Haggerty remember By studying other artwork, the students
her instructing them on real life drawing and learned to be better artists in the art humanities
shading, techniques they carry with them in class taught by Josephson, and Bissey acknowl-
their artwork today, edged the class aided her in looking at things
Both students were also at NES when there differently.
was a separate art class for all students outside When looking back at paintings she created
of their regular classrooms. Today art has a several years ago, Bissey finds it interesting
presence in their everyday lives, one neither to see how much she has changed as an artist
would want to be without, through the years, and every time Haggerty
In high school, Josephson helped them creates an art piece, she said it makes her grow
advance as artists by encouraging them to learn as a person.
their own unique style. Haggerty explained that "You have the world to choose from. You get
as an artist, she can connect her brain to her to create whatever you want," Hagge.rty stated,
artwork, and she plans to pursue a career as a indicating that creating a powerful expressive
tattoo artist in the near future, art piece-- one that no one else made-- is
"It took me four whole years to make my invigorating.
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Josephsonsaid that fqr NHS stud6nts, this yearq Art Show was
one of the best s]ie'terrieffibers, and noted that ,last yedr the larger
pieces caught more attention, but this year overall quality was better.
She also indicated that use had more pieces from NHS senior students
than in previous years, which is. exciting because it demonstrated she
had a prolific group of students:
"I am very excited of the end result of the show," she said.
The increased attendance and participation this year also made for
interesting results when votes were tallied for a Student Choice Award
and a Community Choice Affard in place of the judging that had
taken place in previous years.
'!The Elements of Creation and the Face of our Own Destruction," an
acrylic painting by Jade Haggerty, won the most' student votes, with
"Love is Poison" a drawing by Rehanna Payne taking second, fol,
lowed by a drawing by Keri Bissey entitled, "Old Man Study."
However, the community choice favorite was the latter drawing
by Bissey, with her oil painting, "Family Tree," in second place,
and Haggerty's acrylic painting ~eceiving third place. With the votes
divided, Josephson announced both Bissey and Haggerty as Best of
Show recipients.
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