Spring Lake Middle School/Intermediate School Art

05/17/2022

Consider taking advantage of the Summer Enrichment course I'm offering and get time on the potters wheel! Students will get to throw pottery and glaze and fire their pieces.

Here is the link to sign up:

Parents, Initial Summer Enrichment sign-ups will be open for one-week: Friday, May 6 at 9:00 AM----Friday, May 13 at 4:00 PM. If all courses do not fill, we will offer a second sign-up window on or around Wednesday, May 18 for the classes that have space. Please select one enrichment class only in t...

03/30/2021

Looking for a crafty person who would like to make some small (ranging from 10 to 16" square) black art display boxes. I was surprised at how expensive they were and wondered if anyone with woodworking skills would be interested in making some for the display cabinets here at the school. Sample image below:

04/27/2020

I haven't used this page much but plan to begin to use it so check for updates here!

First update is a link to ALL of my videos so far, these videos have links for each class and have already been available to students through Schoology.

10/19/2018

Thankyou Spring Lake Schools Foundation and the Shindig for making this possible! Pictures of finished RAKU pieces to come.

06/01/2018

I am offering 3 summer art sessions. Send me an email if you are interested. [email protected]

05/14/2018

Cool Opportunity for art this summer....http://ottawahouseartcamp.weebly.com/

04/27/2018

A positive message for our T-shirt designs in Graphic Design.

Bert discusses why Life is good, a positive lifestyle brand, purposely blurs the lines between work, play, for-proft enterprise and non-profit social work. T...

02/23/2018

An inspiration for our 'found object' project we are doing...

Having traveled the world covering street art over the last decade or so, we've seen some incredible artists and practicies. One of the most unique me...

11/01/2017

We are doing a project using found objects and I'm in need of a few things:

-Bench Vice
-Found objects (metal, wire, small parts...bits and pieces of unusual stuff)
-Pliers
-Wire cutters

Any and or all of these items can be brought to the middle school office. Thanks in advance!

10/30/2017

Once in a while I get to do some of my own work...here's a little bowl I threw while doing a student demonstration.

10/20/2017

Wrapping up with 6th graders for the first encore rotation...here is sample of the work coming home. Positive and negative trees.

10/11/2017

One of my favorite projects with 5th graders. I introduce the concept of mixed media to the students in the form of a layered landscape.