Pumpkin Festival 2012

This years Pumpkin Festival was another great success! With several last minute volunteers on the bus, 48 WHS students carved all day on Friday October 26th. We carved over 250 pumpkins! Camp Sunshine raised over seventy five thousand dollars this year and WHS had a primary placement in this event.

Be sure to go and check out Mr. Johnson's blog entry on the pumpkins with more photos. CLICK HERE!

I will be adding pumpkin photos that students took during the day so check back soon! I will post a complete collection to the flickr photostream.

Kim Larlee, Andrew Corea and Danielle Good

2012 Pumpkin Carving Crew (I will add the complete student list next week)

Everyone develops a unique "carving technique"

Welcome back!

WELCOME BACK!!!!!!
A late but well deserved congratulations goes out to Susan DeRoche for placing 1st in her division for the National Junior Federal Duck Stamp contest for the SECOND YEAR IN A ROW this past spring. I spoke to the state coordinator and Susan's beautiful colored pencil drawing got very close to the top of the competition. Her hard work and perseverance paid off in a spectacular piece and a just reward. We will all be watching to see if Susan will surpass her work again in this years competition.

The art department is looking forward to another great year! Our interactive art exhibition is slated to be held again in the art rooms this year. Please be sure to come in to the studio art rooms and check out our Jr/Sr AP individual work spaces. We love to have visitors.

Westbrook High School 2012 Art Show / Student / Teacher Choice Awards

Students and teachers!!! Please take time to view these artworks and vote for your favorite one. The ballot boxes for each category will be in the art suite. Voting ends today, Tuesday April 24th at 3:00 pm.

Feel free to come up and see the works in person!

Teachers Choice Award

Student Choice Award

Westbrook Woman's Club 2012

The Art Department is proud to announce the winners of the Westbrook Women's Club Annual, local Art Exhibition and competition. Each year this local women's group sponsors an Art Exhibition. The Women's club is made up of local citizens who are very active and committed to the Westbrook community.  The winners go on to the regional competition. The artwork can make it all the way to the national competition.


The winners for this years competition were:
1st Place - Julia Kulingoski, Watercolor Landscape
2nd Place - Carley Eaton, Mixed Media Collage Perspective
3rd Place - Brianna Palmer, Soft Pastel Perspective
Honorable Mention - Kaitlynn Hutchins, Colored Pencil Still Life
Honorable Mention - Julia Kulingoski, Photograph Portrait

1st Place

2nd Place

3rd Place

Honorable Mention

Honorable Mention

This year, Westbrook High School sent a total of 29 students work to this local event.
ALL of the entries will be posted on our Flickr Photostream. They will have to be posted in batches because we get a limited amount of space per month. Check back HERE.
Julia Kulingoski
James Phelps
Haleigh Barrett
Cassandra Corkum
Kayci Mero
Nicole Kirkpatrick
Jonathan Murray
Nicholas Tremblay
Susan DeRoche
Kimberly Duong
Jennifer Jensen
Morgan Maxwell
Carley Eaton
Maggie Harnois
Jose  Rivera-Perez
Mackenzie Kellogg
Gregory Violet
Elizabeth Stalling
Haley Hooke
Samantha Russell
Victoria Simoneau
Elizabeth Bois
Natalie Robbins
Angel Simoneau
Brianna Palmer
Kaitlynn Hutchins
Rachel Crawford
Kim Larlee
Angela Leng

Youth Art Month at Portland Museum of Art

March is Youth Art Month across America. Art teachers in Maine who belong to the Maine Art Education Association get to send one student work in honor of this celebration. This year the students who are representing WHS are James Phelps, Pen and Ink Still Life on watercolor toned ground and Elizabeth Bois with a digital photo series Titled "Drawing with Light". 

James is in Art One with Mr. Johnson and Elizabeth is taking AP Studio Art / 2/D Design with Mrs. Bickford. Congratulations to these great students!

Students from all over the state will be honored at the award ceremony. Click here for more info at Portland Museum of Art.

Elizabeth Bois, Digital Photo Series, "Drawing With Light" (This image does not do this piece justice! In reality it is crisp and dolor rich. This will also be in the Art Show)

James Phelps, Pen and Ink Still Life on Watercolor Toned Ground, "Still Life"

Youth Art Month: Celebration Reception

Date: Saturday, March 10, 2012
Time: grades 6-12 6:30 pm

Price: Free 

Location: Great Hall


Claire Filiatrault         Grade: K        Saccarappa
Brady McKeough         Grade: 2        Prides Corner
Chloe Jordan             Grade: 3         Canal
Nathan England         Grade: 3         Congin
Caroline Mooney         Grade: 4        Canal
Kai McGee             Grade: 8        WMS
Abby St. Clair         Grade: 8        WMS
James Phelps             Grade: 9        WHS
Elizabeth Bois         Grade: 12         WHS

MECA Visits Westbrook High School AP/Studio Art CLass

Last Thursday Maine College of Art came to speak to our AP/Studio Art class. The college was very impressed with the studio space and the work they saw of our students. On Friday during our teachers work shop Mr. Johnson taught us how to make a video using iMovie. Here is my very first movie! Be easy on the critique!