PTSA Reflections, West Milwaukee Intermediate Panther Artists.

A BIG congratulations goes out to our panther artists who participated in the annual Parent/Teacher/Student Assoication's Reflections contest.  This contest challenges students of all ages to reflect and create personal artworks a central theme.   This year's theme was "Diversity Means...".  We had six talented Panther Artists who submitted artwork for the contest.  These artists had to create their artworks at home with no help from adults whatsoever.  All of our artists' works will be going on to be judged at the state level.    

A very nice ceremony was held at Frank Lloyd Wright Intermediate School and the winners at the local level were announced.  It was fabulous to see a few of our own West Milwaukee families there. 

Libby B. with her artwork.

Brian J. standing by his art work.

The winner for the visual arts for the middle grades was our very own sixth grader, Austin K.!!!  He did a fabulous job working on this project and we're all proud of him.  Congratulations Austin!

Austin K. was the winner of the middle division

To learn more about local and national PTSA sponsored art contests please go to:http://www.ptareflections.org/

Assemblage/Collage Boxes

Mrs. Styza introduced a really fun project to the seventh grade classes.  The students learned what assemblage and collage are, and how different artists, like Joseph Cornell, use them in their artworks.  They were then challenged to create a personalized assemblage/collage box for themselves or to give as a gift.  They were all given a generic, 5"x5" cardboard jewlery box, and were encouraged to bring photos, magazines, and found objects from home to create their projects.