Four Lapeer West students donate stainglass creation to the schools' Media Center

Students Kevin Roach, Juli Field, Nick Durst and Adam Darby created this stained glass work and donated it to the media center at Lapeer West High School. The students said it took them a week to make the artwork and credited Mr. Paul Fernandez and Mrs. Julie Fernandez and Mr. Steve Hilgendorf with helping them. The four are graduating in June and wanted to leave something that would mark their time at West.

Lapeer East, Lapeer West art students honored for work at Young Artists Today Show

Art students from Lapeer East and Lapeer West participated in the recent Young Artists Today Show at the Flint Public Library and several were honored for their work.

The art exhibit, a collaboration between the Greater Flint Arts Council, Flint Public Library and the Flint Institute of Arts, annually displays the best artwork from students in our area.

Students representing Lapeer West from Mr. Jeff Bolzman’s class were Rhonda Vandercook (3rd place), Adrianna Allen (honorable mention), and Jessica Phelps (honorable mention). Additional students of Mr. Bolzman who exhibited art were Krystal Peto, Cheryse Burns and Lisa Noelle.

Students from Mrs. Nancy Barry’s class at Lapeer West were Elizabeth Smith (honorable mention) and Jaclyn Conlon (honorable mention). Additional students of Mrs. Barry who exhibited at the show were Megan Roberson, Jessica Phelps, Rachel Gillotte and Nicole Mobley.

Also at West, Mrs. Julie Fernandez’s eighth grade students exhibited work at the Young Artists Show. Kaylee Hammerstein received an honorable mention. Other students of Mrs. Fernandez who exhibited were: Abrianna DeBono, Kami Carpenter, and Tyler Egres.

From Lapeer East, Adam Porter, a student of Mrs. Debbie Helbig won an honorable mention award. Other students of Mrs. Helbig exhibiting art at the show were: Shelbi Davis, Sharon McCully, Dominique Sokolowski, Tyler Lemieux and Devin Verhulst.

Also at East, Melanie Dickenson, a student of Mrs. Joann Swomley received an honorable mention. Other students of Mrs. Swomley who had art pieces at the show were: Kaitlyn Beard, Marisa Nichols, Erica Place, Lauren Piontkowski and Autumn Seib.

Art teachers from both schools praised the dedication and discipline of their students for the positive showing at the exhibit.

Lapeer West High School teachers honored at MEA state art show in East Lansing recently

Current Lapeer West art and industrial arts teachers and a retired West art teacher were honored by having art work selected for the Michigan Education Association Art Show.

Selected for the show was a photograph (left) taken by Mrs. Julie Fernandez; a wood sculpture and papier mache sculpture created by Mr. Jeff Bolzman (right, below); a wooden sculpted plate by Mr. Steve Hilgendorf and a sculptural piece of glass, metal and wood titled “Balance” by retired art teacher Jeanine Smith.

Only 79 art pieces from around Michigan were selected for the show.

Mrs. Fernandez was further honored by having her photograph selected as a “Purchase Award,” putting it in the top tier of the awards at the show.

To see more teacher art go to the photo gallery.

“Having a piece selected for the show is a nice honor, having one selected for purchased by the MEA is an even higher honor,” said Mr. Bolzman. “We all congratulate Julie on her work.”

Lapeer East, West and Community High School students honored for art at show

A recent show at Gallery 194 in downtown Lapeer recognized the artwork of a number of Lapeer East and Lapeer West art students who had work selected for the Region 10 Michigan Art Education Association show.

A number of those students were selected for State judging in Lansing. (With the artwork all in Lansing, no photos were available for this article, but we will be putting up high school artwork next week).

At Lapeer West students from Mrs. Nancy Barry’s class were Elizabeth Smith (senior), Cheryse Burns (junior) and Rachel Gillotte (junior). Students from Mr. Jeff Bolzman’s class were Rhonda Vandercook (senior), Cheryse Burns (junior) and Jessica Phelps (senior). Kelly Greenman was selected from Mrs. Julie Fernandez’s eighth grade art class.

Three students of Lapeer East teacher Mrs. Deb Helbig, Kayla Miller (senior), Hillary Davlin (junior) and Ayla Asawasathaporn (senior – two pieces) also had artwork selected for further judging in Lansing.

The 2010 Michigan Art Education Association Region 10 Art Show is a juried art show of student art from Genesee and Lapeer counties.

Other students who had work chosen for the region show were:

Lapeer West: Karley Bauroth (sophomore); Kami Carpenter (freshman); Samantha Chouinard (8th grade); Lisa Noelle (senior); Alexandra Norton (sophomore); Haileigh Sanders (senior); Madison Dearing (8th grade); Abrianna DeBono (freshman); Lauren Gates (senior); Kaylee Hammerstein (freshman); Danielle Holmes (freshman).

Lapeer East: Sharon McCully (senior); Dawn Wesley (senior).

Lapeer Community High School students in Ms. Kelly Wagner’s class: Kayla Bowman (senior); Amanda Ramirez (senior); Sonja Dietz (senior); Magan Hadley (senior); Amanda Swain (senior).