Lapeer East High School art students honored for work at Michigan Arts Festival

Lapeer East High School junior Hillary Davlin and senior Ayla Asawasathaporn were honored at the Michigan Youth Arts Festival in Kalamazoo May 13-16.

Hillary was chosen as one of the artists in the State of Michigan to exhibit art as part of the traveling Governor’s Art Show in 2010-2011.

Ayla’s artwork was honored as being among the top 100 pieces judged from around the State.

Students from all over Michigan, including the Upper Peninsula, sent pieces to this competition. Each teacher submitted five pieces for judging.

“I am proud of the work done by Hillary and Ayla and of this very special recognition,” said Mrs. Debbie Helbig, the students’ art teacher.

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, Lapeer West students win several honors at recent Lansing art show

Lapeer East and Lapeer West students won several honors at the recent Michigan Art Education Association show held in Lansing.

The selections continue a history of success by Lapeer art students at the State art competition.
Lapeer East, Lapeer West and Lapeer Community High School students had art work selected for judging in the Region 10 MAEA and several of those had artwork selected for further judging at the State level in Lansing.

Lapeer West students Cheryse Burns and Rachel Gillotte, students of Mrs. Nancy Barry had art work selected for the State’s Top 18. Cheryse, Rachel and Hillary Davlin, a Lapeer East art student of Mrs. Deb Helbig had art pieces selected for the Governor’s Traveling Show.

As part of the traveling art show, the students’ artwork will be exhibited in at least three high schools in Michigan, the Governor's residence, the Michigan Art Education Association convention and three universities. Lapeer West and Mrs. Barry will host one of the governor's show exhibits next school year.

In addition several East and West art students had artwork selected for the Michigan Youth Arts Festival Art Show.

Selected for the YAFAS were: East students, Ayla Chanakam Asawasathaporn and Hillary Davlin; and West students, Cheryse Burns, Elizabeth Smith and Rachel Gillotte.

The Top 18 artists will be honored at a special luncheon in May at the Michigan YAFAS at Western Michigan University.

“These students are to be congratulated for a terrific job,” said Mr. Jeff Bolzman. “Congratulations to all the students who participated in this show.”

Other students selected for the State judging were: West students, Rhonda Vandercook, Jessica Phelps, and eighth-grader Paula Kelly Greenman; East student, Kayla Miller.

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).

"Greatest Art Show on Earth" to be held at Lynch Elementary on March 19 (free root beer floats too!)

“The Greatest Art Show on Earth” will be held at Lynch Elementary School from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday, March 19.

Each student at the school will have a piece of art or sculpture on display at the show.

Student tour guides will offer tours through the sculpture park that will have more than 400 pieces of art.

Every student will also display a two-dimensional piece of art in the show.

If seeing “The Greatest Art Show on Earth” isn’t enough of an incentive to come, parents will be serving free root beer floats at the show.

“The students have worked very hard on their creations and we are hope many people will turn out to see them,” said art teacher Karen Milito.

Teachers display talent at State art show

Three Lapeer West High School teachers are part of an art exhibition in East Lansing. The County Press did a story on the accomplishments of the three teachers.

Cory Gutenschwager, Steve Hilgendorf and Jeff Bolzman all had art selected for the display.

The Michigan Education Association/Michigan Art Education Association display is being held at the Michigan Education Association's East Lansing headquarters through May 4th.