Westbrook Women's Club Competition 2014

This year the Annual Westbrook Women's club had 31 entries into the annual competition. Over half of the WHS students chosen to compete in this event were able to attend the ceremony and celebration. All 31 artworks are shown in the slideshow to the right. The chosen winners are below.

1st Place Maggie Harnois

3rd Place Sam Russell

2nd Place Kaitlynn Hutchins

Honorable Mention Leah Driesen

The following students were honored at this event:

1. Abby StClair   

2. Marty McKinnis  

3. Kaitlynn Hutchins   

4. Courtney LeClair    

5. Catherine Galipeau    

6. Tylor Work     

7. Lizzie Richardson     

8. Julie Mudasumbwa    

9. Caitlyn Stearns    

10. Sierra Cameron   

11. Leah Driesen   

12. Jessie/Sawyer Bartlett  

13. Shammah Gahomera   

14. MacKenzie Rayner   

15. Diego Ramirez    

16. Lizzie Stalling  

17. Annie Pryor    

18. Corey Williams   

19. Haleigh Barrett

20. Aymen Khaleel

21. Dana Ledue     

22. Sean Gagnon    

23. Jenessa Corbett    

24. Ethan Nash   

25. Jasmine Im    

26. Christina Wormell    

27. Emma Berry     

28. Doaa Khalil  

29. Maggie Harnois  

30. Dana Abdulhay  

31. Sam Russell  

WOW!
This has been an incredibly busy year so I must apologize for the lack of updates.

This post will be about what we have been up to and what is coming up. I decided to make a list of what has happened and what WILL be happening. I will come back and update the info with more links later on.

Oct. 2013 - WHS Art Department participated in the annual Camp Sunshine Pumpkin Festival again. One of our students even put on the Pumpkin Suit Mascot and went to a local Freeport elementary school to engage with the students during lunch. This year we carved over 250 pumpkins. We still have a position of honor up at Beans and plan on doing this next year too.

Oct. / Nov 2013 - The Art department with help from students interested in starting a chapter of the National Art Honor Society put together a Photo Exhibit and artwork for the 25th year celebration of our connection to the city of Archangel Russia. Many students helped make all 21 district flags, learned how to make a traditional Mezen Folk Art work and helped set up the Photo display for the Russian delegation visit. Three Russian students and their teacher spent the day touring WHS and working on projects in the Art dept. Art students Annie Pryor and Elizabeth Stalling helped make this a very special day for our Russian visitors. The Archangel exhibit is at Westbrook School Central Office until mid April.

Feb. 2014 - Westbrook High School's newest chapter of National Art Honor Society had its first meeting. Eighteen students participated in the process of application for our chapter. Our meetings will be held on the 1st Thursday of each month right after school. This organization is an "Art in Service" group who's purpose is to provide art related enrichment activities and projects to the community both school and beyond. Upcoming events TBA

March 2014 - Annual Art Exhibition Fund raiser. This year the theme is "Celebrate Origin" We have many new students joining our learning community from all over the world. This years theme is an attempt to learn more about our new students while celebrating all of our origins. We hope to launch our fundraising options by March 18th at the annual Women's club show.



March 2014 - Students will get a chance to compete in the Vans Custom Culture contest. Mr. Johnson has 4 set of Vans shoes ready to receive the winning designs for this years contest! The themes for this year are Music, Art, Local Flavor and Skate/BMX Sports. Student entries will be entered for a chance at a trip to NYC!

March 2014 - The annual Women's club competition is this month. This local competition has several levels of awards and winners can move forward to the regional and state level.

March 2014 - Youth Art Month! Senior Maggie Harnois will be representing WHS at both the Portland Museum of Art and The Maine Education Association office in Augusta. Maggie's work will hang in Augusta for one year and at the Museum for a month to celebrate this yearly event.