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06/16/2026

We’re settling into summer and wrapped up the year with a few wins at the Macoupin County Fair— We only had two students want to enter work and both placed!

Kylee Branch won 3rd and 5th for two of her pieces and Ruby Lowder won 1st, Best of Show and the Ella Fuess Award.

Ruby (1st) and Josie Ulery (2nd) also took home placements from the Macoupin County Mental Health Awareness art contest.

I am proud of these kiddos for putting their work out there.

Here are some photos of their work, the 2026 Senior Board, the Bob McKemie photo contest winners from the Art Show and a few other last minute projects— and maybe a few that I already posted because the end of the year was a whirlwind 🙂.

Enjoy your summer!

05/09/2026

We’re in our final weeks of classes, final week for seniors and the days are flying by!

Art IV and some independent students have been screen printing this week in our makeshift dark room and everyone has been wrapping up projects.

We’re silk screening designs by using emulsion and burning the designs into the screens with UV light.

We also snuck in one last field trip with the help of Ms. Russel to the St. Louis Art Museum and enjoyed some pretty awesome milkshakes after.

04/30/2026

I fell off posting just before the Art Show because I didn’t want to ruin the show AND we’ve been so busy in the art room. The show was well attended and it was really cool to see it come together!

Zoey McCoy won best in show for 2D
Ruby Lowder won best in show for 3D

We’ve been working with all the mediums and are wrapping up the year with screen printing (photos to come), some silly caricature exercises, lino prints, graphite, paints and just finishing up with wet clay.

Mr. Troutwine joined us for oil paint practice with Bob Ross, we’ve been working on our Panther Ross mural, and we delivered our imaginary friend projects to the 2nd graders.

It’s been a busy, beautiful year.

03/16/2026

The Fine Arts Festival is right around the corner! Make sure you come out Wednesday to support your local teen artists and performers. This year we're bringing back the felt monsters from Ms. Custer's class and we'll be adding in some designs from Mr. Runyen's classes. We'll have some work from Middle school students and some imaginary friends from the Elementary. Our list is (mostly) finalized and the following students will be featured:

PERFORMERS:

Izzie Ewing
Luke Davis
Alex Scifers
Eli Kraus
Lydia Vincent
Heaven Kennedy
Kaleb Buckellew
Halee Sexton
Jonathan Royer
Mia Royer

ARTISTS:

Adrienne Adams
Gemma Allen
Phoenix Allen
Lily Allison
Gretchen Austin
Luke Barham
Alex Barton
Isabelle Bickel
Broktyn Boehler
Shelby Boulanger
Cadyn Bounds
Kylee Branch
Constance Brand
Kevin Bricker
Caeson Carter
Carlee Cooper
Caylee Cooper
Aidon Dotson
Gretchen Dubois
David Enrietta
Blake Elliot
Izzie Ewing
Layla Fanning
Kiana Garner
Brooke Gillespie
Brett Gillespie
Hayvyn Gilmore
Elleigh Granderson
Logan Gray
Lily Green
Rowdy Grider
Brennan Hall
Hayleigh Hamilton
Tinley Hays
Will Herman
Allie Higgins
Payton Hutchison
Lily James
Kaleb James
Mazi Jenkins
Connor Kavanagh
Aria Kusturin
Camdyn Lewis
Chloe Lind
Sam Loveless
Ruby Lowder
Bentley Lowe
Ryleigh Lutz
Ozzie Maddox
Krystian Marko
Zoey McCoy
Owen McDaniel
James McGrath
Kierallen Nowman
Myla Osborn
Isiah Pitman
Henry Pollard
Kaia Poppenger
Tye Rice
John Rosier
Kellen Rovey
Mia Royer
Alex Scifers
Mia Smit
Kaylea Smith
Amiya Stevens
Dylan Strohkirch
Zoey Sullivan
Fayth Toppmeyer
Bella Travous
Emma Turner
Josie Ulrey
Lydia Vincent
Jeorjia Whalen
Aurora Wills
Lennox Wiseman
Cheyenne Yount

MIDDLE SCHOOL ARTISTS:

Avery Barboza
Jaylon Bearup
Alex Caufield
Aleta Donley
Jerzi Hatalla
Margaret Jenkins
Kayleigh Moyer
McKinley O'Shea
Sophia Overbey
Carter Pusch
Alyssa Turner

02/07/2026

Poortrait Orders are officially closed! Thank you to everyone who supported us! All Poortraits will be delivered by Friday 2/13.

We are selling Candy Grams for $3 next week Monday-Wednesday during lunch and will be passing them out during Friday Lunch 🙂 Parents can also send one to their kiddos!

The Art Sale will now be moved to the Art Show just to give the kids more time to create trinkets.

All of the money raised goes directly into the Art Club account for the mural, field trips, and art activities the kids want to do.

Friday Favs along with some final Poortraits! Kids are working on ceramic foods, teapots, and creature mugs. Also masks, hand drawings, and independent work 🙂

02/03/2026

Friday and the weekend were busy with the Scholastic Art Show + Awards set up, viewing, and presentations.

If you get the chance, do check out the Scholastic Art Gallery at the Springfield Art Association this month.

Poortraits are in their final week of orders— last day is Friday. The kids are doing awesome. If you’d like to order please message or email me.

Some faves from last week are in the mix of some photos of the Poortraits.

As always, thanks for supporting the Arts and following along!

01/24/2026

Poortraits are going SO well! We stop selling them February 6th and have a limit on how many orders we will take (we’re getting close to halfway there) so make sure you get yours emailed soon!

Friday Faves! There are a few works in progress, a few finished, and we’re gearing up for the art show. Drawing and painting finished their first round of self portraits and now we’re learning proportions/all of the facial pieces separately on Sketchy Wednesdays to compare a self portrait at the end of the semester 🙂.

01/20/2026

Students entered the Regional Scholastic Art Competition this year and North Mac walked away with some awards! There were over 700 entries, 32 counties.

We had 5 of our 12 entries receive high marks and the work will be shown at the Scholastic Regional Art show. It's hard to know what the judges will pick and what will do well.

One of our students, Izzie Ewing, received the one of the highest awards (Gold Key) and her piece goes on to compete nationally. Three of our students (Mia, Fayth, and Hayleigh) received Honorable Mentions for their photography— which is pretty amazing considering they’re all first year photographers. The awards top-down go: Gold Key, Silver Key, Honorable Mention)

The Scholastic Art Exhibition will be held at the Springfield Art Association, 700 North Fourth Street in Springfield, beginning February 1, 2026 thru February 26, 2026.

Neon Harmony Honorable Mention (Photography)
Mia Royer

Painting the Dark Honorable Mention (Photography)
Hayleigh Hamilton

The Weight Of Time Gold Key (Ceramics & Glass)
Isabelle Ewing

Neon Soul Honorable Mention (Photography)
Fayth Toppmeyer

A Glow You Can't Hold Honorable Mention (Photography)
Hayleigh Hamilton

I'm so proud of all the kids that entered and put their art out there to be judged-- it's a very scary thing to do.

Make sure you check out the Scholastic Art Show in February and get excited for our District Art Show on March 18th!

Hayleigh Hamilton is not pictured with the group because she graduated early (woo-hoo!)

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