Graham HS Art Dept.

10/01/2026

Diego is famous 🤩 I love seeing our students get recognition for their hard work in art class! His story was picked up by Channel 6 and KFDX news!

https://www.texomashomepage.com/news/local-news/graham-student-earns-national-artsonia-artist-of-the-week-title/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNR2FWp8sH0

A sophomore at Graham High School has been named Artsonia’s Artist of the Week following a nationwide online competition.

09/29/2026

Visit the Graham Art Guild to see the Rembrandt Youth Art Show Tuesday - Saturday until October 10. Be sure to vote for your favorite so it can win People's Choice!

09/29/2026

HE WON!

Congratulations to Diego for being the first ever GHS student to win Artsonia’s Artist of the Week. Diego’s plaque will hang in the Commons. He received a $50 Blick gift certificate for art supplies, and the art department got $100. We are excited to order some new materials!

If you have a student at Crestview, Woodland, GJHS, or GHS who takes art you can also see their work online! Reach out to your student’s art teacher if you need help connecting with their Artsonia portfolio.

09/25/2026

These ten students have work selected for the Graham Art Guild’s inaugural Rembrandt Youth Art Show. Let’s celebrate their creativity and wish them luck! Stop by the show at the Fourth Corner mall (504 4th Street) starting September 28 through October 10.

09/21/2026

W🌼W!

We had quite a crowd today for NAHS’s first ever Homecoming Mum make-and-take class. Any student at GHS was welcome to sign up and come. What a success! It was fun to learn and create together - I look forward to seeing these creations worn proudly at school and at the game on Friday!

THANK YOU to everyone who donated supplies and dropped off mums for recycling - every little bit came in handy and was appreciated and enjoyed. I think this will become a new NAHS tradition. ❤️💙

09/16/2026

VOTE FOR DIEGO! Diego is our exchange student from Seville, Spain. He's in our Art 1 classes and his work was chosen by Artsonia for an Artist of the Week spotlight, among thousands of schools across the country! You can vote for Diego every day for a week - if he gets the most votes, he'll win a $50 gift card and we'll win a $100 gift card to use on art supplies.

Artsonia is a gallery of student art portfolios where young artists (grades PK-12) display their art worldwide. We have a vibrant community of art teachers who also share their ideas and lesson plans.

09/15/2026

NAHS will be hosting a free mum-making class on Monday, Sept 21. You can still drop off old mums for us to recycle. We do need a few more items to facilitate this opportunity for GHS students. If you're interested in helping, the Amazon links are in the comments - if you want to order something for us, contact me and I'll let you know where it can be delivered :-). THANK YOU!!!

09/08/2026

Did you know that you can see what your art student does in class by accessing their digital portfolio?

The GHS Art Department has posted over FIVE THOUSAND artworks since we started using Artsonia in 2024. You can see our class page at https://www.artsonia.com/schools/school.asp?id=42255. If you have a student currently taking art class, you can connect with them and even order merchandise with their artwork on it. A portion of the sales even comes back to our program, enabling us to buy supplies! Please let me know if you have questions or trouble connecting with your GHS art student.

08/31/2026

🧁 It’s Cupcake Day in Art 1! 🧁

We have started talking about the element of value. Last week we practiced rendering value using shading techniques with graphite and charcoal. Today we took reference photos for our next project- cupcakes, obviously! We’ll draw these using charcoal on black paper. The results are usually…. delicious!

08/24/2026

Our first project was a collaboration between the whole department.

Each art student received three popsicle sticks to decorate any way they wanted, but they had to include their first and last name and grade level. This collaborative work will proudly hang in the hall all year! …. Or until the weight of 700 ish popsicle sticks vs staples and push pins makes it fall off the wall. 😆 But hopefully all year!