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SSHS spends a day of arts and music
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Posted on Dec 15 2005
The Saipan Southern High School held its 3rd Annual Christmas Arts Festival at the Manta Ray Café yesterday morning, gathering together homegrown student artists and musicians.
Some 80 SSHS students who are taking art classes displayed some of their artwork and outputs under resident Fine Arts instructor Joseph Weaver.
Weaver said his four classes this current school year mounted the exhibit yesterday morning just to let the entire school population as well as the community know what is really going on in their classes.
Students displayed projects on architectural design, 3D designs, product-packaging designs, wire sculpture, painting, sketching and drawing, collages, and sand castles, among others.
“This exhibit is just to highlight the talents and achievements of my students,” Weaver said, adding that based on his observations throughout his art instruction career, the students in the CNMI are very talented. Being an experienced and practicing visual artist himself, Weaver said, some of his students have shown great potential in the arts.
This year’s Liberation Day Queen Yvonne Passi, a senior high school student at SSHS, also participated in the exhibit. Passi submitted her artwork on product-packaging design. She said she enjoyed doing her project.
Yesterday’s festival was complemented with music from various music classes and clubs. Teacher of the Year first runner-up William Dewitt led the orchestra made up of the by SSHS Beginning Band, Advanced Band, and Honors Band student members.
Choir I and II also serenaded fellow students during the festival. The SSHS Refaluwasch Club also rendered a number of Christmas songs during the festival.
