After a year spent raising money for it, students in the Art Travel Club enjoyed the fruit of their labour in San Francisco during spring break.
“It was very busy, but a good busy,” said Chrissy Hvatum, one of the students in the club.
The group, run by art teacher Alexandra Winchester, took in all matter of artistic events while down south.
They did glassblowing in Whitehorse, visited Alcatraz, checked out art museums, learned about art school opportunities and even took in a sailboat ride.
“It was a lot of fun to expose them to different things that are not part of everyday life here,” said Winchester.
“Most of them had flown places before, but I don’t think any of them had been on a train before. We had a 50-foot sailboat all to ourselves and that was new to everybody.”
The sailboat was used as an opportunity to do some sunset photography.
After the trip, during parent-teacher conferences, students filled the school’s main lobby with all of the art projects they completed during the year.
Hvatum’s favourite was her pottery work. She hopes to pursue more of it in the future.
“Our students are quite creative,” said Winchester.
On display were watercolour paintings, murals, blown glass, ceramics and more. There were also projects sponsored by the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation.
“This is just a way to showcase the broad range of artistic talents that our students have and the creativity that they have,” said Winchester.
Besides the pop art pieces, her favourite type of art, Winchester loved the murals, as they were made from recycled material in the school.
“I love seeing something that was meant for the dump being tuned into something that can now be on display for years to come,” she said.
The Art Travel Club arranges a trip every two years for high school students. It went to San Francisco in 2015 and London, England, in 2013.