Little John.  Mixed media on 108 plywood tiles.  1999-2003.  72 x 96 inches (pictured with Annelise Haft). 

Second floor north end of B-Building.  Black Hills High School, Olympia, WA.

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Garden of the ARTS.  Concrete with embeddings and embossings.  2004-2005.  4'H x 4'W x 2'D (each letter).   Horticulture, Construction and Visual Arts programs' collaboration.  

Black Hills High School, Olympia, WA

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(Untitled Garden Path Near the Small Gym).  200 cast concrete pavers.  Spring 2007. 

Horticulture and Visual Arts programs' collaboration.  Black Hills HS, Olympia, WA.

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Garden Bench.  Cast concrete with embeddings and embossings.  6'L x 6'W x 2'H.  2007-08.  Collaboration with Horticulture program.  (Assisted by staff members who helped postion it into place.  Black Hills High School, Olympia, WA. 

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WOLVES.  Shanny Ross.  Acrylic on MDF board.  2005.  2'H x 9'W. 

1st Floor, B-Building,Black Hills High School, Olympia, WA.

 

 

 

20 Self-portraits.  Black Hills High School Students.  Charcoal on paper.  18 x 24 inches (unmatted). 

January 2004.  Exhibited at Sip 'n Ship Cafe, Tumwater, WA.

This is one of several community venues where BHHS artists have exhibited their work.

 

 

Olympia Arts Walk.  Spring 2005.  Over the years BHHS artists have exhibited their work and/or

participated in the festivities of at least five of the Spring Arts Walk venues.  There was the giant

iguana in 1998...  Happy Teriyaki (pictured with Tucker Thomas and Anna Nash, seated right) in '05... 

The fish-n-chips place in '06...  The kids' activities tent in '07...  First Christian in '08... 

Their sixth venue will be at Selden's Furniture in April 2009.

 

 

Courtyard Bench.  Joel Pederson and Wes Woodard.  Wood, steel and concrete.  2005-06. 

Black Hills High School, Olympia, WA.

 

 

Diversity.  Crystal Butler.  Watercolor and acrylic on hardboard panels.  6' x 8'.  Spring 2006. 

B-Building, Black Hills High School, Olympia, WA.

 

 

Black Hills High School.  Joseph Doan and Jacob Gable.  Acrylic on MDF board.  2005-07.  2'H x 9'W. 

1st Floor, B-Building, Black Hills High School, Olympia, WA.

 

 

 

Color Wheel.  Marie Helton - concept & design; Cody Zimmerman - layout & initial paint; Dylan Paul - initial paint; Aaron Turcotte (pictured) - project completion.  2004-05.  (Repainted in 2006-07 by Samantha Sokolowski, Samantha Mateski, Marion Huff, Shawna Merricks and Janessa Moffat.)

 

 

Bratwurst Feed.  One of the ways permanent art projects for the campus were funded when good

deals on bratwursts were discovered by Mr. Wegener.  This photograph is from our first in late Spring 2005. 

Cashiers are Melissa Windham and Courtney Allen with Mr. Wegener in the background.

 

 

Art Dragon.  Rachel Brewer.  Acrylic and acrylic latex.  Spring 2004. 

Michelangelo Quote.  Amanda Cavenaugh, Ashley Aguillard, Huyen Pham and Analisa McCann. 

Acrylic and acrylic latex.  2005-06.  Entrance to the Visual Arts Room 75.

 

 

South Puget Sound Community College Arts Festival Winners.  Spring 2007.  Art students from Black Hills HS frequently exhibited their work and distinguished themselves (and their school's art program) by garnering many of the awards until SPSCC discontinued the annual event.

 

 

Class of 2006.  K.T. Cox.  Acrylic on 14 canvases.  12 x 16 inches each.  2005-06. 

The combined canvases are mounted, framed and on display at the front/main entrance of the campus.

 

 

ART SHO 9: Black Hills High School's 9th Annual Student Art Exhibition, May 2008. 

This annual event was founded in Spring 2000 by BHHS' chapter of the National Art Honor Society and the

Visual Arts instructors, Virginia Murray and Dave Wegener. 

For 2-4 days before each Mother's Day the Visual Arts room is transformed into a gallery of 100 to 200

student works of art for the public to come and see. 

In 2001 (#2) the event was combined with the Horticulture program's annual spring plant sale. 

Beginning in 2003 (#4) a People's Choice Award of $100 in art supplies/framing was given annually 

to the artist of the audience's favorite work. 

In 2006 (#7) Tumwater High School accepted an annual invitation to exhibit with BHHS students

and did so every year after. 

 

 

End-of-Term Art Exhibition, January 2009.  After working all term on their own or others' projects, 

every student in the Visual Arts is in a two-day show at the end of the term.  Each student prepares a formal 

display of his/her best work and accomplishments for visitors (and fellow artists) to see and offer feedback to

the artists.  Visitors include several staff/faculty members, entire classes, families, friends and of the artists

and instructor, and sometimes special guests, reporters and/or college representatives.

 

 

Theatre Sets.  Whether it's because we share the same students during the day, or because we share the

same materials and equipment, or because we share the same interest in the creative process and performing... 

the Visual Arts has had the honor of participating in and collaborating with BHHS Theatre productions. 

The set designers are often a Visual Arts student who, with the help of the instructor, can enlist an entire class

or two to help construct and/or paint all or parts of a set.  Pictured above is the crew of Fall 2007's Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) working for set designer, Jessica Wojner (standing facing the girl on the green

ladder).  Pictured below is Jacob Gable, set designer for Spring 2007's Zombie Prom, working in the Visual Arts

studio on banners for the prom scene.