Youyang Li, a recently graduated senior at Pius X, has been awarded a silver medal by the nonprofit Alliance for Young Artists & Writers. She recently was honored with multiple awards at the state level.
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Senior Youyang Li has been honored with five Gold Key awards and two Silver Key awards, while senior Elayna Uhing won a Silver Key for her artwork. The honors come from the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, Nebraska Art Region. Scroll through the photos to see their artwork. Congrats, Yoyo and Elayna! Special thanks to
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Painted eggs have cultural significance depending on the region of the world. Students in Laurie Rodaway’s class are working on their painted egg projects while studying how different cultures decorate eggs and the different techniques used. Researching examples from places such as Greece, Turkey and the Ukraine, they are now working on their own designs.
Mixing of paints, designs and cultures in art class Read More »
Our Show Choir students have one final performance this Saturday! Let’s meet the seniors from this year’s Spectrum, Prism and Show Band, with the background music coming from one of their performance numbers.
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Photography students captured color and water in motion thanks to an idea by their art teacher.
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Youyang Li, a junior at Pius X, has been named a 2022 Scholastic Awards National Winner. The award is from the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, a nonprofit organization. More than 100,000 students submitted more than 260,000 works of art and writing. Li will be traveling to New York City for a unique experience
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For her final senior project, Christine Fortenberry painted a reproduction of Pierre Auguste Renoir’s ‘In the Meadow’ onto a ceiling tile that will live in her now-former French classroom. Fortenberry asked her teacher, Laurence Mills, if she had a preference, and Mills choose this particular artwork, but hadn’t seen Fortenberry’s final work until last Friday,
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Art students in Laurie Rodaway’s Folk Art class in the first semester created crosses out of glass. Here are pictures of the progression of work students put in and their final creation. Latest Stories
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Coffee cups are the current flavor of Molly Wallish’s ceramics class, which is constructing mugs with the slab method. Today the students were adding texture or attaching handles. More Photo Galleries
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Part of the learning experience in Molly Wallish’s Photography class is learning how a camera works. This year, Wallish had students make a camera, of sorts, using cardboard, a magnifying glass, a thin piece of paper, and lots of tape. Students cut the cardboard into two different three-dimensional rectangles, one slightly smaller so it could
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