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School Gallery
Artwork Exhibits - this school year (since July 2012)
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May 2013, taught by Cindy Erickson
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May 2013, taught by Cindy Erickson
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May 2013, taught by Cindy Erickson
Students drew themselves wearing rain gear using crayons. Then we used watercolor markers to make raindrops. Some chose ...
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May 2013, taught by Cindy Erickson
We read a book called Grumpy Cat about a cat who was always grouchy. The book is about friendship. When grumpy cat mak ...
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May 2013, taught by Cindy Erickson
This premilinary exercise teaches students to begin to see and draw things that look three-dimensional. We used curved ...
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May 2013, taught by Cindy Erickson
Using special shading pencils students chose a photo to draw and to shade in. The assignment required students to us ...
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May 2013, taught by Cindy Erickson
We studied about the life and art of Georgia O'Keefe. Students chose either a flower or bone(s). The challenges of th ...
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May 2013, taught by Cindy Erickson
For this Figure Drawing Challenge, students are asked to draw 5 different circles in random spots on their paper. After ...
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Monkeys! K4
(42 artworks)
May 2013, taught by Cindy Erickson
We read a funny book about monkeys. It was impressive how well the students did drawing their monkey. They have come ...
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Apr 2013, taught by Cindy Erickson
We drew turtles and then practiced filling in with pattern. Learning to draw repeated pattern is a skill that helps not ...
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Apr 2013, taught by Cindy Erickson
Elmer is an elephant who looks different than all the other elephants. He has bright patterns of color all over him. Elm ...
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Apr 2013, taught by Cindy Erickson
We talked about how creative God was when he created so many colors and shapes and varieties of flowers. Students look ...
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Apr 2013, taught by Cindy Erickson
We studied the artwork of artist Henri Rousseau. Mr. Rousseau did many types of art but is best known for his jungle pi ...
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Apr 2013, taught by Cindy Erickson
We talked about how creative God was when he made so many colors and shapes and varieties of flowers. Students cut an ...
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Apr 2013, taught by Cindy Erickson
Students learned about radial design and practiced using LINE and SHAPE and COLOR to create interesting compositions of ...
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Apr 2013, taught by Cindy Erickson
This project involves a white board coated with black ink. Students must think backwards from the usual way of creatin ...
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Apr 2013, taught by Cindy Erickson
We studied the work of famous artist Pablo Picasso. We did multiple sketches trying out different abstract concepts and ...
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Apr 2013, taught by Cindy Erickson
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Musical Art K4
(42 artworks)
Apr 2013, taught by Cindy Erickson
Today we listened to music while we painted. When the music stopped we moved to a new painting station which had a new ...
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Apr 2013, taught by Cindy Erickson
We drew lizards and then filled them in by doing rubbings of different textures. TEXTURE is one of the elements of Art ...
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Apr 2013, taught by Cindy Erickson
This animal mask project is fun way to learn about FORM. We spend a day covering a balloon with plaster. After it dri ...
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Mar 2013, taught by Cindy Erickson
Students studied the shapes of beany baby puppies and dogs and then translated those shapes into a Doggy Picture. We le ...
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Mar 2013, taught by Cindy Erickson
Students chose a photo to reproduce in tempera paint. We focused a lot on learning to blend the colors of the paint to ...
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Mar 2013, taught by Cindy Erickson
We have been learning about what a Still Life arrangement is. We learned a little about the artist Henri Matisse and hi ...
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Mar 2013, taught by Cindy Erickson
Using photos of iris and the paintings of iris by artist Vincent Van Gogh, students designed their own composition and p ...
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Mar 2013, taught by Cindy Erickson
This was an interesting process where we took multi-colored fingerpaint paper and coated it with black paint. Then the ...
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Purple Bugs K4
(41 artworks)
Mar 2013, taught by Cindy Erickson
In this fun assignment we are working on cutting, gluing and folding skills. Some of our bugs seem to have "crawled of ...
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Mar 2013, taught by Cindy Erickson
We looked at artwork on the Smartboard and learned the differences between Realistic Artwork and Abstract Artwork. We ...
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Feb 2013, taught by Cindy Erickson
Fifth graders chose a bird to draw. We used special art stix and colored pencils and practiced blending and getting ...
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My Family K4
(14 artworks)
Feb 2013, taught by Cindy Erickson
We created family portraits by printing heads and bodies with potatoes dipped in paint. We completed our families with ...
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Feb 2013, taught by Cindy Erickson
We read a cute book about what snowmen do at night when we are sleeping. We talked about how a snowman might look with ...
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Feb 2013, taught by Cindy Erickson
First real snow of the season gave us a reason to practice drawing circles and painting what we drew with white paint.
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Feb 2013, taught by Cindy Erickson
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Feb 2013, taught by Cindy Erickson
Students chose a torn piece of paper from a pile on their table. Using imagination they thought of several ideas for w ...
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Feb 2013, taught by Cindy Erickson
We studied the sunflower paintings of Vincent Van Gogh. We noticed how Mr. Van Gogh used small strokes of color to cre ...
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Feb 2013, taught by Cindy Erickson
We studied the sunflower paintings painted by Vincent Van Gogh. We learned a little about his life. We used oil paste ...
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Feb 2013, taught by Cindy Erickson
We studied about famous Austrian artist Gustave Klimt. Mr. Klimt was fond of using curved lines and lots of pattern. ...
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Sand Art K4
(30 artworks)
Feb 2013, taught by Cindy Erickson
As we continue our study of TEXTURE, one of the elements of Art, we explored colored sand and how we can use it to make ...
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Feb 2013, taught by Cindy Erickson
Because I had some extra air dry clay I let the pre-K have a special treat that we don't usually do. This clay is ver ...
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Pinchpots K5
(31 artworks)
Jan 2013, taught by Cindy Erickson
We learned to make a pinch pot using air dry clay. After our pinchpots dried we painted them with acrylic paint. Some ...
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Jan 2013, taught by Cindy Erickson
Students created a cut paper collage decorating with metallics, found objects and glitter glue.
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Jan 2013, taught by Cindy Erickson
This project requires visualization both for the idea and to cut out the paper to collage the idea without drawing the s ...
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Jan 2013, taught by Cindy Erickson
We looked at planets on our Smartboard as seen from outer space and noticed the colors, details and variety. Students th ...
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Sculpture K5
(14 artworks)
Jan 2013, taught by Cindy Erickson
We are learning about the difference between 2D and 3D artwork. We learned the word sculpture. We created a sculptur ...
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Jan 2013, taught by Cindy Erickson
We are learning about the difference between 2D and 3D artwork. Today we created a sculpture using paper strips. We l ...
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Sculpture K4
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Jan 2013, taught by Cindy Erickson
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Dec 2012, taught by Cindy Erickson
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Dec 2012, taught by Cindy Erickson
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Dec 2012, taught by Cindy Erickson
We talked about the angels mentioned in the Bible at the time of Jesus birth. We used glitter and shiny and lots of fo ...
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Dec 2012, taught by Cindy Erickson
We read a book called Christmas Penguins. We are continuing to practice our cutting skills by visualizing a shape on t ...
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Dec 2012, taught by Cindy Erickson
We learned to draw a Christmas tree. Then, using green modeling clay we spread out the hard clay with our thumbs and fi ...
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Dec 2012, taught by Cindy Erickson
For this art time I gave the students quite a bit more freedom to choose their own supplies and create a picture depicti ...
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Dec 2012, taught by Cindy Erickson
First Graders enjoyed creating a gingerbread house using white tempera paint for the frosting and construction paper cra ...
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Dec 2012, taught by Cindy Erickson
We have been learning about tints and shades and how to create them using paint. Students drew from a still life of poi ...
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Santa Faces K5
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Nov 2012, taught by Cindy Erickson
We continue to work on cutting and gluing skills. Students are taught to cut free-hand rather than using a pencil firs ...
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Nov 2012, taught by Cindy Erickson
We drew Christmas Elves and then painted them. Using a limited palette of red and green allowed us to really work on o ...
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Nov 2012, taught by Cindy Erickson
We drew sock monkeys and decorated them with Christmas colors and patterns. Using a limited palette of red and green a ...
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Nov 2012, taught by Cindy Erickson
We have been learning the art of printmaking. We focused on the true Biblical story of Christmas. Students drew an im ...
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Baby Jesus K4
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Nov 2012, taught by Cindy Erickson
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Baby Jesus K5
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Nov 2012, taught by Cindy Erickson
We talked about the true meaning of Christmas and about where baby Jesus was born. We practiced cutting, gluing and te ...
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Nov 2012, taught by Cindy Erickson
Using their footprint as a body, students learn to see FORM and to create arms and legs that have form too rather than " ...
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Nov 2012, taught by Cindy Erickson
Today we learned that a portrait is a drawing or painting of a person. A self-portrait is a drawing of yourself. We ...
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Nov 2012, taught by Cindy Erickson
We reviewed the idea of portraits being an artistic portrayal of a person. A self-portrait is how you artistically port ...
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Nov 2012, taught by Cindy Erickson
We studied the art of Mr. Dale Chihuly, a glass blower who creates huge bowls, chandeliers and art sculptures. On a pi ...
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3D Characters
(45 artworks)
Nov 2012, taught by Cindy Erickson
Students enjoyed making a character sculpture out of special air dry clay, found objects, and tempera paint.
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Nov 2012, taught by Cindy Erickson
We have been studying the artwork of Claude Monet the Impressionist artist. Students chose of particular painting of M ...
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Oct 2012, taught by Cindy Erickson
We are continuing to explore the primary colors and the mixing together of the primary colors. This time we used regul ...
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Teddy Bears K5
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Oct 2012, taught by Cindy Erickson
We spent a fun day making textured paintings in the style of Eric Carle, an author and artist who illustrates his own bo ...
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Oct 2012, taught by Cindy Erickson
We learned that a parody is an amusing imitation of a writing, music or art. Students created their own parody of the ...
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Oct 2012, taught by Cindy Erickson
We read a story called Mouse Paint about 3 mice who go for a swim in some paint. We learned about the 3 PRIMARY COLORS o ...
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Oct 2012, taught by Cindy Erickson
We studied a variety of different leaves. We learned about how and why leaves change colors in the Fall. We used warm ...
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Oct 2012, taught by Cindy Erickson
Students looked at a fall still life set up in the classroom. They cut out the shapes for the still life without draw ...
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Oct 2012, taught by Cindy Erickson
We learned the primary and secondary colors and how they fit together on the Color Wheel. Students colored a small col ...
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Oct 2012, taught by Cindy Erickson
We studied the work of Dutch artist Piet Mondrian. Mr. Mondrian frequently used geometric shapes in primary colors and ...
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Oct 2012, taught by Cindy Erickson
We studied the work of famous artist Wassily Kandinsky. After looking at the artwork titled "Squares With Concentric Rin ...
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Oct 2012, taught by Cindy Erickson
We studied the artwork of Seguy, a French artist. Mr. Seguy used bright colors and layers of designs and repeated obje ...
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Fish 3rd Grade
(52 artworks)
Oct 2012, taught by Cindy Erickson
We talked about how creative God was when He created fish. All the shapes and colors and patterns! After looking at ...
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Oct 2012, taught by Cindy Erickson
We read a book about Little Blue and Little Yellow, 2 little spots who hug so hard they turn into a green spot. We tal ...
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Oct 2012, taught by Cindy Erickson
We have been reviewing what we know about SHAPE, one of the Elements of Art. We discovered that some of the basic shap ...
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Leaf Rubbings
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Sep 2012, taught by Cindy Erickson
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Scarecrows K4
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Sep 2012, taught by Cindy Erickson
We have been learning the basic shapes. Using circles, triangles, squares and rectangles we created a scarecrow. We d ...
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Sep 2012, taught by Cindy Erickson
Fourth graders chose an animal photo and drew it large. They then used chalk pastels and practiced their mixing and sha ...
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Sep 2012, taught by Cindy Erickson
We have been learning to draw animals by breaking them down into basic shapes. After practicing lots of animals the st ...
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Sep 2012, taught by Cindy Erickson
Dear Parents, I had to be out on Monday and accidentally left the same lesson plan for the sub as last week. Therefore ...
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Sep 2012, taught by Cindy Erickson
We are exploring how shapes can fit together to make beautiful artwork. We learned the difference between a landscape ...
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Sep 2012, taught by Cindy Erickson
Using the shading skills we practiced on our pretzel, we made animals with wrinkles. Learning to shade and create depth ...
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Sep 2012, taught by Cindy Erickson
We talked about how circles are different than other shapes like squares and diamonds which have points. We looked at ...
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Sep 2012, taught by Cindy Erickson
We reviewed what we know about horizontal, vertical and diagonal LINES. We looked at many photos of houses on our smart ...
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Sep 2012, taught by Cindy Erickson
We reviewed the basic shapes and drew a large cat using circles, ovals, triangles and rectangles. We learned to draw a ...
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Sep 2012, taught by Cindy Erickson
We are reviewing LINE, SHAPE, and COLOR. We drew and cut out a circle and then folded it into eight equal sections. We w ...
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Sep 2012, taught by Cindy Erickson
We looked at the paintings of famous abstract artist Jackson Pollock and saw photos of him making his art in his barn. W ...
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Sep 2012, taught by Cindy Erickson
For our first project we did a contour drawing of a twisted pretzel (not as easy as it sounds!) We then used special w ...
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Sep 2012, taught by Cindy Erickson
We learned a little about the artist Joan Miro, a Spanish artist who created playful pictures using mostly black lines a ...
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Sep 2012, taught by Cindy Erickson
We reviewed what we know about line and used line to make a large lion face. We used straight line, curved line, horiz ...
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"The Squiggle"
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Aug 2012, taught by Cindy Erickson
We read a book about a girl who finds a red piece of yarn and imagines it can be all kinds of wonderful things. We each ...
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Aug 2012, taught by Cindy Erickson
We are learning about LINE one of the elements of Art. Using line, students designed a city including items of their ch ...
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Artwork Exhibits - last school year (July 2011 - June 2012) Artwork Exhibits - 2 years ago (July 2010 - June 2011) Artwork Exhibits - 3 years ago (July 2009 - June 2010) Artwork Exhibits - 4 years ago (July 2008 - June 2009)
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3573 artworks |
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737 fanclub members |
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234 comments |
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36 artist statements |
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2782 artworks |
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#361 |
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666 fanclub members |
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161 comments |
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25 artist statements |
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School Awards & Honors
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2011-2012 Leadership Award
Ranked #1 in Oklahoma (#119 in the nation) for overall participation among all schools
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2011-2012 Art Publishing Award
Ranked #1 in Oklahoma (#210 in the nation) for art published among all schools
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2011-2012 Fan Clubs Award
Ranked #1 in Oklahoma (#251 in the nation) for fan club signups among all schools
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2011-2012 Comments Award
Ranked #2 in Oklahoma (#290 in the nation) for comments posted among all schools
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2011-2012 Statements Award
Ranked #3 in Oklahoma (#496 in the nation) for artist statements collected among all schools
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Student Hall of Fame
Shown are five randomly-selected students who have entered the Hall of Fame this year.  | | Kees9
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