NHHS Art Room

04/18/2026

Be sure to stop by the Carnegie Cultural Center when they are open to see work from our amazing New Hampton students!! Come support our students and this amazing space!

04/10/2026

04/10/2026

Congratulations to our 2026 UIC Art Show winners!
Dani Ellingson received 2nd Place in the Craft Category for her Stained Glass Flower.
Capri Lester and Harper Paulsen received 3rd place for their photo of Harper and her Eye!

04/09/2026

UIC Art Show today! A quick glimpse of some of the activities! We have two awards that will be announced tomorrow morning!

10/29/2025

A selection of the work that’s been done this semester so far! You’ll notice that there’s 8th grade work in with my high school work. I got the chance to add 8th graders (because NH is growing, and they fit into my schedule!). I have had a blast with this grade and they have driven new challenges! So there is work 8-12th grades in the art cases!

10/01/2025

I’m so excited to be a part of this exhibition!

While the gallery is closed night now as we prepare for the next exhibit, it will be opening back up soon. A WEEK from today we will be opening the 2nd exhibit of the year!
Faculty +1: Educators in Focus this exhibition will run from October 3- November 7th, 2025.
JOIN US for the Opening Reception: Thursday, October 9th at 6:00pm in KAB 111.
HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!

07/19/2025

I taught a bookmaking class today! We made Coptic stitch books and they turned out beautifully!!
This is something I teach my high school students because you learn SO MUCH about sewing and making books. It took about 2 1/5 hours or so and was so much fun! I hope I inspired more book making people!

07/09/2025

Come make a book with me! I’ll teach you how to sew a Coptic stitch bound book!

05/24/2025

Jaxson finished his dragon! It’s 3D, stained glass, and when you pull the string it flies! It was such a challenge, and took a lot of problem solving- but it’s so incredible!!

05/24/2025

Jaxson finished his dragon! It’s 3D, stained glass, and when you pull the string it flies! It was such a challenge, and took a lot of problem solving- but it’s so incredible!!

05/19/2025

Every year Art Appreciation creates Podcasts for a last project. This year there were only 3 students, so Ms. Nelson joined i!
Feel free to listen to the podcast episode on HAUNTED ART!
Thanks to Justin Adam for all his help and letting us use the amazing equipment for this project!
This was such a fun project!

This episode is about artwork that is haunted. Keziah, Melissa, Aurora, and Cecilia each chose a piece of artwork to research and present to the group. This is a fun and entertaining way to learn about haunted artwork!Pieces of work explored:*Anguished Man*The Hands Resist Him*The Crying Boy*The Gra...

05/10/2025

We had the chance to visit Kirkwood to work in the hot glass studio. So glad to be able to do this again!

We made hot glass flowers! 15 students got the experience of hot glass! We worked with glass over 2000 degrees, safely and creatively! Each student got to choose how much they wanted to do of the process, some to all of it. Each one got to make at least one flower with one on one instruction with a Kirkwood glass technician or the Kirkwood Glass Instructor, Christopher Gray.

It’s such an incredible experience and hopefully it inspires my students to keep finding new experiences and maybe they’ll do more glass!