State Bound: First-Year Visual Arts Classic Team Dominates Regional Competition
April 7, 2019
Dominating the competition at regionals in its first time competing, the NHS Visual Arts Classic team secures a position to advance to state on Friday.
“We didn’t expect to win,” senior Kaley Waters said. “We were just doing it to learn more about the program and have fun while doing it because we are all kids that love art and love each other’s company.”
For the regional competition, students must complete a long-term prompt and bring it with them to competition, complete an on-site short-term prompt, compete in a critical thinking challenge, and compete in a quiz bowl.
The competition is judged much like solo and ensemble, where anyone who gets a first place at regionals moves onto state.
Waters reflects on her long-term prompt, “I really enjoyed working on my box. I am actually really happy with how it turned out and obviously it did really well at regionals.”
Waters took first in the long-term category, and she is hoping to do the same at state.
In addition to Waters, the team of 14 (12 and two alternates) consists of seniors Rachel Blank, Emily Hase, Tori Jacque, Hannah Meixel, Jonathan Olson, Jerzey Popp, Breckin Sargeant, Haley Schneider and Nemiah Whitston; juniors Kaley Sagataw and Jane Rogers; sophomores Archer Gahl, and Autumn Schultz.
Art teacher Emma Santiago elaborates on Neenah’s victory.
“They placed first overall, third in quizbowl, third in critical thinking and then almost all of them placed first one of their individual pieces,” she said.
Since the team won first overall, they will bring the whole team to state, and they will all compete in all of the categories again.
According to the Wisconsin Art Education Association artists must each:
conduct research,
work independently,
work cooperatively as part of a team,
work out ideas in written form and sketches until they arrive at a solution,
accept constructive criticism,
take risks in solving problems.
“So they hit all of that at some point throughout competition,” Santiago explains.
The Visual Arts Classic state competition will take place April 12 at UW-Madison.
For information regarding the 2019-’20 VAC team contact Santiago at [email protected]
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Olivia M Widmer • Apr 23, 2019 at 7:56 AM
It’s always awesome watching new clubs hatch at Neenah high school, and even better when they create something new!
Amanda Argall • Apr 22, 2019 at 8:45 PM
Didn’t even know we had a visual arts team! The amount of success they’ve had for their first year is awesome! We clearly have a lot of talented artists at the high school
Sophia T. • Apr 22, 2019 at 8:28 PM
Congratulations Visual Arts Classic team for making it to state! It would be really cool if the team could display there work somewhere around the school. Good luck at state!
bella • Apr 22, 2019 at 2:02 PM
I ddnt know all of the opportunities that were offered in this club and it looks like a really neat thing to be a part of. Good job with the article!
Claire • Apr 22, 2019 at 12:44 PM
Wow, it’s so wonderful to see art thrive at NHS! I often think that people forget how important art is, and while NHS has a lot of sports teams, sometimes art seems to go unnoticed. Great job you guys!