Art Story
By Emily Perkins

What really goes on in the art room? If you’re not in one of the art classes offered at Yutan, you may have no idea.

According to art teacher Dustin Nielsen, the number of students in art has increased in recent years. A lot of students are taking Art I this year, and many of them are upperclassmen.

“There are quite a few talented students in Arts I-IV this year,” Nielsen said. “There are also a few talented upperclassmen in Art I this year, which kind of makes you wonder why they didn’t take art sooner.”

A few new projects have been tried this year. The junior high art students started using paper mache to make sculptures of their hands.

 Some of the upper art classes did a project where they drew the heads of famous people or well-known characters. They did this by using only quotes said by the person being drawn.

“It’s the same idea as dot-drawing,” Nielsen said.

Using quotes instead of dots made the students dig deeper into the project.

“It allowed us to learn about different artists and different aspects of art,” junior Steph Roll said.

According to Nielsen, there is an all-conference art show going on right now in Lincoln. Nielsen selected 10 pictures from the high school art classes for the show. This art show is judged by other art teachers from the conference. Ally Roth received a gold medal for her picture, while Katie Buhman received first runner-up, Amanda O’Malley received second runner-up, and Steph Roll received third runner-up.

The art classes also showed their artwork at the Soup and Song concert. This wasn’t a contest, but most of the artwork shown had been to a previous contest.