Colfax Woman’s Club sponsors student art contest
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COLFAX — The Colfax Woman’s Club has sponsored an art contest for the first through the fifth grade at Colfax Elementary.
Instead of an in-person art show with student projects being displayed in the hallways at Colfax Elementary and in the art room, Stephanie Ulcej, art teacher, and her students produced a virtual art show this year.
Members of the Colfax Woman’s Club judged the students’ art projects using the Spring Art Show videos.
The art show is available for the public to enjoy on the Colfax School District website.
The students explain how or why they did their particular project.
This year has been challenging for students and their teachers because of the SARS-Co-V2 pandemic. Different adaptations were made throughout the elementary school, middle school and high school to keep everyone safe.
The students were not able to go to the art room this year because of the pandemic. Instead, the art teacher came to each class with art supplies and the lesson.
The art program used at Colfax Elementary is called Choice Art, or Teaching for Artistic Behavior.
Each time students have their art class, they have a short lesson such as a video about some type of art, a particular artist or another type of art information.
Then the students are treated like a real artist and are able to decide on a project using the supplies that are available to them.
The virtual art show is fun to watch. Some students worked in pairs or in groups.
Here are the winners:
First place — Evelyn Lisowski (Nightmare Before Christmas).
Second place — Rozelle Seehaver (Slippers).
Third Place — Bently Prochnow, Braeden VanNess, Dean Nagler, Ezra St. Aubin and Logyn Hiitola (Beaver Lake).
Honorable mentions —
Video 1: Alexa Weidner (Melting Yin Yang).
Video 1: Ashlyn Parzyck (A Hungry T-Rex).
Video 1: Addysyn Durand-Goldsmith (Faces, Creature & Infinity Cube).
Video 1 and 2: Aubrey Nelson, Emma Shearer and Leah Wallbrandt (House).
Video 3: Graeson Osterberg and Owen Buchner (Basketball Players).
Video 4: Gavin Swartz and Mason Smith (Apocalyptic Truck).
Video 3: Julia Whitwam (Abstract Drawing).
Video 3: Harlow Apel (Mendala).
Video 5: Tyler Albricht (Truck Drawing).
Video 5: Ryinn Hoyt (Cows).
Video 5: Silas Knutson and Liam Glendenning (Plane With Runway).
HONORABLE MENTION — Students in Stephanie Ulcej’s art classes at Colfax Elementary participated in a virtual art show sponsored by the Colfax Woman’s Club. Honorable mentions were (front row from left): Ashlyn Parzyck (A Hungry T-Rex); Liam Glendenning and Silas Knutson (Plane With Runway); Harlow Apel (Mendala). Second row from left: Diane Goers of the Colfax Woman’s Club; and Emma Shearer, Aubrey Nelson and Leah Walbrandt (House). —photo by LeAnn R. Ralph
ART CONTEST WINNERS — Students in Stephanie Ulcej’s art classes at Colfax Elementary participated in a virtual art show sponsored by the Colfax Woman’s Club. The winners were Evelyn Lisowski (first place) (Nightmare Before Christmas); Logyn Hiitola and Braeden VanNess (third place) (Beaver Lake); Roselle Seehaver (second place) (Slippers). Second row from left: Marie Swartz of the Colfax Woman’s Club; Bently Prochnow, Dean Nagler and Ezra St. Aubin (third place) (Beaver Lake). —photo by LeAnn R. Ralph
HONORABLE MENTION — Students in Stephanie Ulcej’s art classes at Colfax Elementary participated in a virtual art show. The Colfax Woman’s Club sponsored an art contest for participants in the art show. Honorable mentions were (front row from left): Julia Whitwam (Abstract Drawing); Ryinn Hoyt (Cows); Owen Buchner (Basketball Players); Mason Smith (Apocalyptic Truck). Second row from left: Pat Eggert of the Colfax Woman’s Club; Addysyn Durand-Goldsmith (Faces, Creature & Infinity Cube); Graeson Osterberg (Basketball Players); Tyler Albricht (Truck Drawing); Gavin Swartz (Apocalyptic Truck). Missing from the photograph is Alexa Weidner (Melting Yin Yang). —photo by LeAnn R. Ralph