The Dusty Art Room

Fine Arts and Career Fair Showcase 2017 For the 6th year in a row, Mrs. Bernath and I have put together a showcase that features the career fair research projects of the 8th grade and art of all the Hester art students.  One of the unique qualities of this show is that it is completely student curated, which means that the students chose which of their pieces that they wanted to showcase.   For the first time this year, I was able to add the artist statements on display with the projects to help the audience understand some of the process that went into the project.  Students, parents and teachers were able to fill out some "fan mail" cards to write compliments to the students to let them know some of their favorite artworks and aspects of the career fair projects.   Here's some photos the students on display with their projects:  To see all the photos view the video at:  Fine Arts & Career Fair Showcase 2017 ...

New to the art room this year is the incorporation of green screen technology!  Second trimester students created a paper collage background and then used the DoInk Green Screen App to add themselves and sometimes their friends to their portraits.  These are so wonderful that I just had to show them all!  Enjoy!  6th Grade Portraits:  7th Grade Portraits 8th Grade Portraits

Each semester Leyden puts on an art show to feature the work of the current art students in each of the art classes.  Hester is invited to display work during this show as well for 7th and 8th grade students.  It's one of my favorite shows to attend because I get to see the work of my past students and how they have grown as artists since graduating.  I am proud to say that just over 70 Hester Alum were represented in the Winter Art Show this year!  Since there were so many photos, I put them into a video, so sit back, relax, and enjoy the show!  Congrats to all the artists for their hard work! The following Hester students had work selected for this show: 7th Grade:  Andrea Gutierrez David Guzman Ernie Abdic Jason Merino Jessica DeValle Karely Garcia Mia DeLeon Nicole Fallorin 8th Grade: Amber Bautista Anna Rudka Andres Flores David Cardenas Eldin Sakanovic Erick Ramos Gabe Monarrez Hannah Stocks Jasmin N...

The 2016 Dinner Dance was a wonderful celebration for our soon-to-be-graduated 8th grade students!  All the students enjoyed the dinner and the dancing commemorating their last few weeks at Hester.  We will miss our 8th graders when they are gone, but we can send them off happily knowing that great things await them in their future.