Each year Mr. Splittgerber’s art students design a cover for the school’s yearbook.  The staff votes and narrows the field down to a set of four potential covers that are voted on by each of the K-8 classrooms and other volunteers.  The winner is a closely guarded secret that only Mr. Splittgerber and the yearbook [...]

Ms. Vickers and her class have made some beautiful prints featuring a variety of animals.  Well done, class!   Jeremiah S.   Dane T.   Jonathan O. Logan T. Shubh S. Madelyn G. Gabe B.

Even three year olds can make great works of art!  Check out the prints made by Mrs. Muellers preschool class! Click on each image to see a full-size version.  Sydney Peterson  Zayne Felker  James Walker   Alexandra Splittgerber  Chloe Weller  Paige Sickles  Kaleb Minton  Ansley Noyes Reilly Fisher’s art is not downloading correctly – we’ll post it as [...]

2007 Zion Graduate Christopher Crow has art work on display at the Museum of Nebraska Art!  Well done Chris!  Chris’s work can be seen in the photo below: it is the blue jay head that is exquisitely rendered in pen and ink behind Chris!  

The 7th & 8th graders have been hard at work this year on all sorts of art adventures.  This class has a true eye for good art, and many of them are drawn to the abstract.  Don’t ask – “what is it?”, rather we encourage just to enjoy the aesthetic feel of each piece.  Leave [...]

The 7th & 8th graders have been hard at work this year on all sorts of art adventures.  This class has a true eye for good art, and many of them are drawn to the abstract.  Don’t ask – “what is it?”, rather we encourage just to enjoy the aesthetic feel of each piece.  Leave [...]

Miss King’s first and second grade class has been studying one of Vincent Van Gogh’s famous sunflower paintings and have made their own based on his work.  At Zion, we believe that an important part of art education is learning from the works of the masters.   This project illustrates such a lesson.  Click on each [...]

Friday, September 7, was such a beautiful day that it was impossible to stay inside!  To remedy the situation, Mr. Splittgerber devised an Art Challenge !(modeled after the Food Network’s Food Challenge)  Here’s how it worked:1) Each student was randomly paired with another. 2) The groups were to sketch their designs and decide what to draw. [...]

The purpose of this comparison is to further illustrate the evolution of the 7th & 8th graders’ growing artistic skills.  The students were asked to improve on the pencil compositions by addressing the weaknesses found in the critiques of their work. Some students greatly improved their first effort while others did not.  The varying results is [...]

After completing their pencil compositions, the 7th & 8th grade students were asked to improve the theme and/or composition they had made but now using charcoal as the medium.  Charcoal can provide more striking contrasts, but requires great restraint and mistakes are not easy to fix.  In general, I believe the students did very well [...]