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It's All in Your Head
Cover Image: "Thoughts of One" by 12th Grade Student The NBHS Art Gallery walls are filled with the finished drawings of 3rd Hour's Art...
Ashley Jager
Oct 7, 20226 min read
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It's a Mash Up!
Cover image titled "The Simpsons Space Adventure" "Optimus Prime is making the final lap in Mario Kart's Rainbow Road in outer space with...
Ashley Jager
Sep 30, 20223 min read
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Back to School in New Buffalo Art Dept. 2022-2023
Welcome back to another Bison school year! It's exciting to be wrapping up the first full week of school at New Buffalo Middle/High...
Ashley Jager
Sep 16, 20222 min read
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New Buffalo Seashells for Summer Break!
6th grade artists listen for the distant roar of waves crashing New Buffalo Beach in their ceramic seashells. School's out for summer...
Ashley Jager
Jun 10, 20222 min read
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Luminary Letters
During the Middle Ages, scribes in monasteries worked tirelessly on pages of manuscripts for Kings and churches. (manu =hand; scriptus=...
Ashley Jager
Jun 6, 20222 min read
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Out of the Wild
Habitat loss—due to destruction, fragmentation, or degradation of habitat—is the primary threat to the survival of wildlife in the United...
Ashley Jager
May 31, 20223 min read
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Painting History to Life
It's a sunny day and New Buffalo students are painting in the courtyard during Art class... nope, they are in their World History class!...
Ashley Jager
May 16, 20222 min read
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Picasso Portraits
Pablo Picasso is one of the most famous artists of all time who dedicated 80 of his 91 years to creating artwork that changed the course...
Ashley Jager
May 6, 20223 min read
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2022 Community Student Art Exhibition
New Buffalo artists Nicky Durham (9th Grade) and Lieve Siewert (8th Grade) were chosen for the Berrien RESA Community Art Scholarship...
Ashley Jager
Apr 20, 20222 min read
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Tessellation Creatures
Above: Bison Tessellation Math meets Art in the repetition of shapes that tessellate like puzzle pieces locking together without gaps in...
Ashley Jager
Apr 16, 20222 min read
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The Art of Portraiture
The biggest challenge in drawing portraits is overcoming the tendency to draw a person as you think they should look like with stylized...
Ashley Jager
Apr 1, 20223 min read
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Reinventing the wheel
People remember 10% of what they hear, 20% of what they read, and 80% of what they see and do. (Lester, P.M. 2006. Syntactic Theory of...
Ashley Jager
Mar 25, 20222 min read
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The Week in Photos from New Buffalo Art Dept.
It seems as if this school year has been flying by! Today marks the last day of 2nd Trimester in the 2021-2022 school year. I'd like to...
Ashley Jager
Mar 11, 20221 min read
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Kinetic Op Art Illusions
Art is made to be seen. Each work is created by the artist to communicate a purpose, aesthetic beauty, reflection of the world, or an...
Ashley Jager
Mar 4, 20222 min read
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Ch Ch Ch...Chia!
"Your life is like a piece of clay, don't let anyone else mold it for you." -Lao Tzu, Chinese philosopher (6th Century) New Buffalo High...
Ashley Jager
Feb 25, 20223 min read
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New Buffalo Artists in the Michigan K-12 State Show
New Buffalo artists in the elementary, middle, and high school have been chosen for the Michigan Art Education Association's K-12 State...
Ashley Jager
Feb 18, 20224 min read
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Photography Scavenger Hunt
New Buffalo High School students have been daydreaming in the Adobe Creative Cloud suite with their Photography and Design unit. The art...
Ashley Jager
Feb 11, 20222 min read
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Middle School Ceramics!
The 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students are eagerly invested in learning pottery with their hands covered in clay! I see these young artists...
Ashley Jager
Jan 28, 20223 min read
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Art Appreciation in Honor of Dr. MLK Jr's Legacy
Above: David Driskell, artist and curator of "Two Centuries of Black American Art." (Photo Credit: Center for Maine Contemporary Art)...
Ashley Jager
Jan 21, 20223 min read
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The NBHS Pottery Club Debut
The New Buffalo High School Pottery Club had its first kick-off workshop after school this week on Thursday, January 6th, 2022. As the...
Ashley Jager
Jan 7, 20222 min read
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