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- Creating

Art teacher
Margie
Schimenti
helps junior the
Michelle
Manthei while
she throws on
the pottery
wheel. photo Senior Mandy
- Vint goes
by Erika
Mattson
through the
exciting and
sometimes
Throughout
frustrating
the year
students' art
putting together
work could be experience of
seen in the her portfolio
display cases. with teacher
Senior Joanne
Christine Stevens. photo
Morris and by Erika
freshman Mattson
Stephanie
Morrison paint
the clay As she rumaged
sculptures they
had created in
hopes of their through the work she had
artwork
making it to the worked so hard to perfect,
display. photo
by Erika she wondered if every line was
Mattson
exact and if every angle was
perfect. Her entrance exam
into college required her to
complete a portfolio of her
best work. Drawing and paint-

ing was what she loved to do,
but that wasn't enough; she
had to do it well. The profes-
a a
; . sor she hoped to have teach-
k:. .. -- . ·- ing her next year would surely
-
- find every error. Once the
~~
pieces were finally selected,
Brainstorming
she could do nothing more
was the first
step for artists
before they than wait to hear how she had
started their
actual projects. done. The project allowed her
Sophomores
Jenny to see how she had grown as
Spitznagel and
Jessica Stuart an artist over the year, but it
sketch their
ideas for also made her wonder if her
pottery before
they start their
sculptures. work had been good enough
photo by Erika
Mattson to create a future in art for
her.
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