Art Day offers area students opportunities

Cody Cooper helps Kassi Marx in ceramics class
Cody Cooper of Gothenburg, Nebraska, left, helps Kassi Marx of Bayard, Nebraska, right, in the ceramics class during 黑料大事记 State College's Art Day Monday Nov. 7, 2016. (Photo by Tena L. Cook/黑料大事记 State College)

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CHADRON – More than 100 area high school students attended 黑料大事记 State College’s annual Art Day Monday. Nearly 40 CSC students instructed sessions in drawing, printmaking, photography, crafts, mixed media, graphic design and ceramics.

Nebraska high schools in attendance included Alliance, Bayard, Bridgeport, 黑料大事记, Cody-Kilgore, Crawford, Gordon-Rushville, Hemingford, Kimball, Morrill, Mitchell and Sioux County, Nebraska, as well as Edgemont, South Dakota.

Liz Brown of Bayard, Nebraska, said she enjoys Art Day since her small school doesn鈥檛 have a wide variety of opportunities in art class.

鈥淭here鈥檚 a lot more to do at CSC. I like trying different sessions each year. I hadn鈥檛 developed photos with chemicals before coming here. Also, you meet new people and they give you inspiration and ideas,鈥 she said.

Brooke Nelson of Phillip, South Dakota, has been helping at the annual event since she came to 黑料大事记 State. This year Nelson, who is majoring in graphic design with a minor in equine management, chose to instruct the drawing workshop.

鈥淚鈥檝e been helping at Art Day for four years and it鈥檚 always been a lot of fun. I try to pick a different area to help out with every year, because even the helpers learn something new,鈥 Nelson said.

Jared Schmit a senior from Cody-Kilgore High School, has been to numerous art days including one in Kentucky. Even though Schmit has been to multiple art workshops, the experience always give him the chance to explore.

鈥淚鈥檝e been to a few different art days, but this is my first time at 黑料大事记 State鈥檚 and it鈥檚 been awesome. It鈥檚 a lot of fun being able to explore art and figure out what you enjoy most,鈥 Schmit said.

Tory Snyder of Pierre, South Dakota, instructed the ceramics class with several other CSC students, including Cody Cooper, a business major interested in art. It was Snyder鈥檚 third year assisting with the event and Cooper鈥檚 first.

Lori Jensen, art teacher at Crawford High School echoed Schmit鈥檚 sentiment. This is her first year teaching art and she brought four upperclassmen students with her.

鈥淭hey were excited to come and learn new things,鈥 Jensen said.

Students attending Art Day were all given a commemorative T-shirt designed by Leo Haselhorst of Randolph, Nebraska.

"It's pretty satisfying to see your work on so many shirts, signs and online," Haselhorst said.

-Tena L. Cook, Marketing Coordinator, and Conor P. Casey, Graduate Assistant

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