Each Art Fest student participated in two workshops, choosing from Foundation Ceramics: Wheel and Handbuilding, Woodburning Design, Comic Composition, Stamp Carving and Textile Printing, The Art and Craft of Film and Theatre Acting, Torchwork Jewelry, Mandala Dot Painting on Handmade Rocks, Making a Zine, Small Folk Inspired Murals, Acrylic Colorwork Series, Formline on Longboards, Beginner Knitting, Paperclay Sculptures and Vessels, and Block Printing: Poster Design.
Last weekend art students and teachers from nine Southeast Alaska high schools arrived in Petersburg by floatplane, Alaska Airlines, and jet boat to participate in the 28th Annual Region V Art Fest. This is the third time Petersburg High School has hosted the event. PHS art teacher Lisa Shramek, an Art Fest alumna, spearheaded the three-day event that brought sixty-eight students and sixteen instructors together for thirty hours of intensive art instruction and a lot of creative fun.
The first Art Fest was held in Wrangell in 1997 after art teacher and potter Kurt Garbisch realized he alone co...
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