Fine Art

At Fennville High School, we believe the arts are essential to holistic student development. Through opportunities to play with materials, experiment with techniques, and explore important themes, students build critical life skills such as risk-taking, problem-solving, self-regulation, and healthy personal expression. It has been such a joy to help cultivate an environment of artistic exploration at FHS over the past year and a half!

Currently, we offer courses in Drawing, Painting, Ceramics, 3D Design, Advanced Art, and Digital Art. While students focus primarily on art creation, they also engage in art history, art criticism, and art philosophy. There is a strong emphasis on cross-curricular connections, helping students understand how visual art intersects with music, poetry, film, fashion design, history, emotion, and so much more.

In Art Club (held every Thursday from 3–4!), students have the freedom to create without the confines of prompts or deadlines. They may continue work from class or bring in independent projects from home. Some favorite Art Club activities have included throwing on the pottery wheel, crocheting, knitting, painting hallway ceiling tiles, and creating origami.

I am also incredibly proud of our National Art Honor Society students. This honors organization focuses on serving and benefiting our community through the visual arts. So far this year, NAHS students have organized and run an art sale booth at fall sporting events and led crafts and face painting at the Fennville Christmas Parade. They are currently hard at work creating bowls for a Ladders of Hope fundraiser held in March. The students have planned many more exciting projects which will take place this spring semester—stay tuned!

I am so grateful for a community that has a passion for the arts and for our student's growth as artists and humans alike. A special thanks to parents, teachers, administrators, community members, business owners, and local artists for continuing to support the visual arts in our schools. The kids are surely grateful and so am I. To curiosity and creativity! - Ms. Moore