Lakeland School District High School Art Departments

11/04/2025

Lakeland High School Advanced Art students learn the Grisaille technique every year. This involves creating an underpainting in grayscale. Later, they apply glazes of oil in color over the top.
A big thank you to amazing artist Joe Kronenberg for volunteering multiple times over the years to come talk to LHS art classes, and he shared this wonderful technique with us over a decade ago! It’s made a big impact and has been a great segue into oil painting for our students.
*We did modify the underpainting to acrylic to make it more high school user friendly, but the overglaze is oil.

12/18/2024

Super excited to see this year’s submissions for the Art competition!! Stay tuned in January for more information.
We are so fortunate every year to get outstanding judges such as last year’s- Michele Chmielewski (recently served on the National Art Education Association executive board as the Pacific Regional Vice President), Joe Kronenberg, Buddy Le from Coeur d’Alene Galleries, Blair Williams from the Art Spirit Gallery, Michael Horswill, and many others.
The Lakeland Art Department appreciates you all for your support of the arts in your community!

05/20/2023

04/13/2023

AP Drawing and Pre-AP students do a variety of painting, drawing, and digital artwork while they build college-level portfolios.
They are phenomenal artists!!
Here's a sampling which includes screenshots of the slides (bottom right corners) they turn in with each project where they describe their processes, use of Elements and Principles of Design, revisions, and self-critique.

04/13/2023

Here's some of the works that the Jewelry & Fiber Arts and Adv. Arts & Crafts classes have been doing.

04/13/2023

Art 1 classes recently learned how to draw Perspective. They were given the choice to do 1pt, 2pt, 3pt, or 5pt in a crystal ball.
Here are some awesome examples of their amazing work!

06/22/2022

This year, we celebrated our 15th year of the competition, and we were very fortunate to have Blair Williams, owner of The Art Spirit Gallery in CdA, judge for us.
Concurrently, the People’s Choice Award was voted on by ballot by students, staff, and teachers.
In all 15 years, the Best of Show and the People’s Choice have never the same artwork, and the streak is still unbroken! Money, certificates, and ribbons have been awarded to the winners - over $500!
Thank you to all who supported our successful exhibition!
Here is a link to all of the entries: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13Nu2r0Zg0mSGsSZkjfnI_XnM6oIq0YqnY3STQMUG8fY/edit?usp=sharing

06/09/2021

We just opened the last kiln of the season! Have a look at a selection of the final projects. I’m so proud of our students - their curiosity, creativity, and exploration of ideas that hold meaning to them!

05/25/2021

Results are in! Congratulations to all our winners and a big thank you to this year's judge Heather Klikna Griffin. Over $500 in prizes were awarded to the winning artists.

05/14/2021

It's that time of year again! This is the second time we have made this a virtual exhibition. The show is currently being judged professionally for all of the awards. Here is your opportunity to support our student artists and vote for The People's Choice Award. The entries are grouped by slides in 4 categories.
Please vote for one overall winner.

Here is the link to the slideshow:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11yl6j396_hWRCqc7XYJHdvwEWj9zLvEek9f1E_0aIRA/edit =id.gd615326d35_0_147

Here is the link to vote :
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1w0akh8vZ-PQUJr_AN3XUId3TA69uKpEcD46ds-ffo5M/edit

If you want to see all 147 individual entries, here are links to each of the slideshows per category (warning, slow to load):
Portrait/Figure: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Sl1x2XP6PdkcG7ZZ4gwDF0HMC91hi27VOwNRQ5N2qkE/edit =id.p

Outdoor Life/Landscape/Animal:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1OwWkohRgaxgYSJzb3Sh5Uy8RNp0-CXirAlOgsgvs6DA/edit =id.g85a2a42777_0_65

Fantasy/Abstract/Experimental/Still Life:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1HuHDRp223p6j3DJzeAOoQwTVEYDz8ALfP3M4vOK4z7c/edit =id.g85a2a42777_0_65

3-D/Pottery:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jH20eo8AawTj5d-UkukL6n155GmLyIJBx0uFgW7EJAU/edit =id.gd4be064dc2_0_207

04/29/2021