Northern Excels in the Arts

Feature

By Heaven Powell

Husky Herald Reporter

  Port Huron Northern has a love for the fine arts! Port Huron Northern's 2015 Art Show was held on February 12th.

  There was an array of pieces from Northern's very own, in every medium imaginable. Most of the artists included also had award winning pieces in the Scholastic's exhibit in Macomb.

  The exhibit in Macomb, known as The Scholastics Art and Writing Competition, had an overwhelming amount of Northern students' work. Every different award that was possible to receive, was received by at least one Northern Student.

  Rian Perry even received an American Vision award for one of her 3D pieces. This is the highest scholastic honor. Every artist, teacher and student, is so proud of this accomplishment.

  Northern's art program has excelled since it's existence and is normally overlooked. The women in charge of educating and training these artists are Victoria Hussey and Pamela Brown. These two wonderful teachers go out of their way inside and out of school to make sure each artist is the best they can be.

  The 2015 art show was run without a hitch and received a great reaction from students, teachers, and parents. Aaron Martindale ('15) says, "I didn't even know most of these people were artists it's so cool".

  Two senior artists, Jaylynn Buckley ('15) and myself, Heaven Powell ('15) enjoyed standing near our own exhibits, eavesdropping on the comments from students. I made sure to converse with the ones that did not know it was my own work.

  "This one is crazy" one unknown student exclaimed. "Yeah that's so cool," I replied, "I wonder how the artist did that." To my own surprise, the student thought it was a stencil, and I sarcastically agreed, and walked away laughing before I blew my cover.

  Each AP senior got their own large display including a creative name tag, and artist statement. This gave us each a final PHN Art farewell from the show. It also made it easy for the teachers, and students, that have known us for four plus years, to see all of the work we had been working on this year in AP Art.

  The art show has always been great way for the students of Northern to show off their work. It is nice for the art program to be highlighted for that special week each February.