Hauser Junior Senior High School - Jetstream Yearbook (Hope, IN)

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Touch Of Color What is that stuff on the walls?” Why are they doing this to our cafeteria?” These are just a couple of comments that were made during the project of drawing and painting murals on the cafeteria walls. During the school year of 1983-84, Mrs. Carol Romine, Food Service Director, come to Mrs. Janeen Blomenberg, art teacher, to ask if she could do something to brighten up the cafeteria. In the 1985-86 school year things got on the road. Art II students were assigned to design murals for the cafeteria walls which would be developed the following year and then drawn to size on newsprint. The idea was to illustrate every aspect of our school in 10 pictures, stated Mrs. Blomenberg. All of the various aspects were placed in like groups such as academics, student life, and sports. Each grouping was then broken down to include as many parts of the whole as possible. In student life for example, each activity had its own symbol. Hauserettes had a pair of boots; student council, a gavel; and so on. Sixth period Art II students were responsible for final designs and all drawings as well as transferring the drawings from the paper to the walls. As stated by our exchange student, Yania Gante, The hardest part was getting our drawings onto the wall.” They first attempted to do this by outlining everything with a tracing wheel then taping the paper to the wall and applying powdered paint to it. The paint was supposed to go through the holes and leave a outline on the wall but this did not work. We were all disappointed, mostly because all our time was wasted and we had to try something else,” stated Terri Beeker. The next time students hung their drawing backwards on a window and heavily outlined with crayons all lines on the front of the paper. When the paper was taped up to the wall and the lines were traced, the crayon left marks where the pencil traced. This method worked and the painting commenced. The paint that was used is also used at Disney World for their back drops and large murals. The class size fluctuated from 6-8 students so it was a very large project for so few people to undertake. I wish there had been more students though so that the project would have gotten done faster, stated Mrs. Blomenberg. This feeling was also shared by Becky Lucas but both Becky and Stephanie Seright stated, This project has given us pride in knowing we can accomplish things if we stick at it.” Debbie David and Omega Kelley paint melted wax on their batik designs The batiks were then quilted and sewn into pillows. Kothy Keller, Michelle Deckard, Ken Par-due, and Sonia Embry print their tessellated designs in 7th grade art. Using brayers and printing ink, the students printed three sheets of their designs and then painted two of the three.

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Beth Ross solders her stain glass clock face together. Beth was in Crafts II, a class which was set up for independent study in four craft areas Textiles, metals and wood were the other three areas studied Sally Kelly, Angie Anderson and Tracy Jones work on their rugs in Crafts class. Tracy is drawing her design on the rug canvas while Sally and Angie hook theirs. Terri Beeker and Stephanie Seright transfer the technology murals onto the cafeteria wall The class worked on these drawings 12 weeks before transferring them onto the wall. Art 9