The National Art Honors Society Club (NAHS) is back in action. To get ready for the new year, they’re creating fun and colorful art projects around the school to brighten it up.
NAHS is a club for passionate students enrolled in upper-level art classes who want to spread their creativity. Members come together to discuss, plan and carry out art projects around the school. They have fun while making a difference through art and creativity, filling the walls of WJ with more color every year.
“We really combine our strengths together because it’s a lot of different art classes where people have different strengths that they like to use,” junior and NAHS historian Julie Friedman said. “It helps people get closer together and we work on murals around the school, so we bring what we have and what we’re good at to help decorate.”
Last year’s art projects are currently being installed for display. These include a digital art piece near the office and a ceramic mural. In addition, they have an exciting project hopefully in the making: a stained glass installation. Planned to be on the windows of the staircases, the mural makes it so that when light passes through, the staircase is brighter and more colorful.
An annual tradition that the NAHS has coming up is the Halloween Costume contest. An opportunity for all WJ students, including non-members, to show off their costumes and creativity, as well as compete in a costume competition.
“We have a vote, I think, based on themes or categories and we have a couple ideas that have not yet been decided, but there’s good stuff coming,” junior and NAHS treasurer Fiona Wesa-Cox said.
The NAHS hopes to expand its creativity beyond the walls of WJ by creating beautiful murals in public spaces like Davis Library.
“Then if it’s public areas, it’s like what connections we have to them,” senior and NAHS president Ashton Hyer said. “And then for what we actually end up painting or drawing or whatever, we normally figure it out through brainstorming as a club-once our club meetings start up.”
NAHS wouldn’t be able to take on these art projects without the support, time and dedication that members put into creating the best work possible to display around the school. Making the school more lively, one art piece at a time.
“Everybody in the club does a different thing,” senior and NAHS president Ryan Heminsley said. “You have people coming in from photography, from ceramics and from studio art. Just getting a wide variety of both mediums and just types of people altogether is really, I think, enriching for the school.”
