Kat Smith and Afton Brown are two of the students in Art 1.by Carolyn Brown
SJHS Staff Writer
Art Foundations is the most advanced art class at Springville Junior High School. In the class, students create art in a variety of media. They make collages, sculptures, prints, and many other things. When choosing the projects for each week Jethro Gillespie, the art teacher, looks at what students think art is and explores and expands that image. He also teaches what art is. One of Brandon Wolf’s favorite projects so far is the spray-paint stencil, where the students made a stencil of their faces and then the spray-painted the stencil. While Kat Smith’s favorite is the perfectionist-slob project, where students made the first half a picture as realistic as possible and the other half as sloppy as possible.
Students choose this elective class for a variety of reasons. “I’m really interested in art and I think that this class will help me improve,” said Kat Smith. “Ever since I was little I’ve liked to do art, and I thought that an extra art class would be great,” explained Brandon Wolf. Art Foundations is a class that is important to not only school life, but everyday life. “Most of us have a desire to create and explore. Art is kind of like an outlet, of sorts, where you get to make things your very own, and you can solve problems,” said Jethro Gillespie.
The students also have more freedom in what they do. Each week they have to do a concentration project, where they get to make something in a media of their choice. They have to spend an hour on each concentration project and have it done and turned in by the end of the week, but those are the only restrictions. They get to choose what to do and how to do it. Just as a heads up for future students: try your best, follow directions, and have fun, and you will have a great semester in Art Foundations.
