2015 Youth Art MonthAuburn Washburn USD 437

Annual Cultural Heritage Week“Encouraging respect for cultural differences and diversity in artistic expression”

• Middle East (2009)

• Latin America (2010)

• Africa (2011)

• East Asia (2012)

• American Indian (2013)

• India (2014)

Mariachi Estrella

Teddy Granad, Omympia Soccer player, speaks about Paraguay

Mariachi Estrella

Purchase Award Nominees

Purchase Awards for School Beautification

Annual Cultural Heritage Mural

“Art Geek of the Week”

The MemoryProject

• Sierra Leone

• Vietnam

• Latin America

• Bangladesh

WRHS art student Logan Watt holds his finished portrait of a child from Sierra Leone while the young boy proudly shares his moment after receiving it.

Partnership with Home of Hope

36% of high school girls have an eating disorder. 20% suffering from anorexia will prematurely die from complications related to their eating disorder, including suicide and heart problems.

Installation Art

“In the last half of 2011, U.S. agencies asked Google to remove 6,192 individual pieces of content from its search results, blog posts or archives of online videos.”

“Over 140 Million girls and woman alive today have undergone female

genital mutilation/cutting.”

According to the International Center for Research on Woman (ICRW), “1 in every 9 girls is married before the time they turn 15.” The ICRW predicts that in the next

decade, 142 million girls under the age of 18 will be married.

Chuck Close Project-Honoring Unsung Heroes in Our Building-

Unsung Hero ProjectCollaboration with the Lowell Milken Center for Unsung Heroes

Professional Guest Artist VisitsProviding opportunities for students to interact with professionals in our content area.

Guest Artist Cally Krallman

Annual All Night Art Lock-In

• Paul Flinders (2009)

• Barbara Waterman Peters (2010)

• Stephanie Muñoz-O'neil (2011)

• Jesse Gray (2012)

• Patrick Vincent (2013)

• John McCaughey (2014)

• Tonja Torgerson (2015)

Stephanie Muñoz-O'neil

Barbara Waterman Peters

Guest Artist Barbara Waterman Peters

Guest Artist Patrick Vincent

Guest Artist John McCaughey

Guest Artist Tonja Torgerson

Regional Art Competitions

Blue Print and IB Senior Art Exhibits