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2006-2007 WOODRUFF HIGH SCHOOL ART HONORS
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Oct. '06 - PIEDMONT INTERSTATE FAIR FINE ARTS AWARDS
It is with pleasure I announce the following art student winners from WHS in the 2006 Piedmont
Fair Fine Arts Competition in Spartanburg, SC:
3-D and Sculpture Awards:
2nd place - Jessica Thomas
2nd place - Micah Taylor
1st Place - Sabrina Spencer
1st Place - Jessie Seymore
2nd place - Canaan Whiteneck
2nd Place - Anthony Garrera
1st Place - Canaan Whiteneck
2nd Place - Amy Simpkins
Anthony Garrera - Honorable Mention Pottery
Micah Taylor - Honorable Mention Pottery
Ronald Norman - Honorable Mention POttery
2-D Awards:
3rd Place Printmaking - Andrew Westmoreland
2nd Place Printmaking - Jessica Hammond
2nd Place Mixed Media - Brittany Jones
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SPARTANBURG ART MUSEUM INVITATIONAL SHOW, OCTOBER 2006
The following students have 30 art works on display at the Spartanburg Arts Center in the
Spartanburg County School District Four Monthly Exhibition:
1- Andrew Westmoreland - self-portrait drawing
2- Jasmine Sanders - typography
3- Alison Monahan - typography
4- Andrea Goodman - tryptich drawing
5- Alex Wetherill - scratchboard drawing
6- Brenda Diaz - lino print
7- Brenda Diaz - tryptich drawing
8- Jasmine Sanders- tryptich drawing
9- Jasmine Sanders - fashion layout design
10- Brenda Diaz - pastel teacup drawing
11- Alex Wetherill - abstract oil pastel drawing
12- Logan Harrell - cryptic drawing
13- Jacob Reeves - cryptic drawing
14- Alex Wetherill- self promotion poster design
15- Canaan Whiteneck - children's toys still life
16- Brittany Young - prisma drawing of dogwood branch
17- Logan Harrell - architectural collage drawing
18- Jacob Reeves - contour drawing with blue wash
19- Sabrina Spencer - dyed fabric design with stitchery
20- Sabrina Spencer - fruit monoprint
21- Kylie Rotton - typography
22- Toma's Glenn - fashion layout design
23- Danielle Wilson - self portrait drawing
24- Amanda Anderson - hand abstraction, mixed media
25- Jarod Phillips - typography
26- Kaitlin Brown - fashion layout design
27- Brittany Young - Pastel floral drawing
28- Brenda Diaz - self portrait drawing
29- Sabrina Spencer - 200 lines ink drawing
30- Brittany Young - 200 lines ink drawing
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Jan. '07 - S.C. SCHOLASTIC ARTS COMPETITION, LANDER UNIVERSITY
It is with pleasure I announce the following students have been selected to the S.C. All-State
Scholastic Exhibition at Lander University:
Jacob Reeves, Contour Lines, Drawing
Alex Wetherill, Maya Angelou, Drawing
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March '07 - S.C. ARCHIBALD RUTLEDGE TOP TEN ARTISTS
It is with great pride that I announce WHS seniors Jacob Reeves and Logan Harrell have been
notified by the State Department of Education they are top ten art finalists in the 2007
Archibald Rutledge competition. I am thrilled that WHS once again has 2 of the top 10 art
seniors in South Carolina. The gathering date for portfolios and award of honors is scheduled
for Friday, April 27th at the State Department of Education, with our new State Superintendent.
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Feb. 2007 USC UPSTATE "A NEAR MISS" ENTRIES FROM WHS
I am proud to announce the following 33 student works were entered in A Near Miss/Maggie's
Drawers literary art magazine competition at USC Upstate.
1. Jared Phillips - candy still life
2. Brittay Young - mixed media fabric design
3. Brittany Young - portrait collage
4. Drew Westmoreland - fashion layout
5. Brittany Young - 200 lines design
6. Jarod Phillips - 200 lines design
7. Jarod Phillips - historical collage drawing
8. Jarod Phillips - soccer ball drawing
9. Jarod Phillips - contour line figure drawing
10. Logan Harrell - pencil portrait
11. Brenda Diaz - fashion collage illustration
12. Brenda Diaz - pencil self-portrait
13. Logan Harrell - cryptic drawing
14. Brenda Diaz - historical collage illustration
15. Brittany Jones - collage
16. Alison Monahan - patttern design painting
17. Kaitlin Brown - prisma candy still life
18. Kaitlin Brown - pattern design painting
19. Kaitlin Brown - Historical collage drawing
20. Kylie Rotton - 200 lines drawing
21. Kaitlin Brown - expressive portrait drawing
22. Heather Hatfield - watercolor irises
23. Andrea Goodman - Historical collage drawing
24. Andrea Goodman - football player drawing
25. Sabrina Spencer - cell animation drawing
26. Sabrina Spencer - monoprint
27. Sabrina Spencer - mixed media self-portrait
28. Sabrina Spencer - fabric print
29. Jasmine Sanders - fashion collage illustration
30. Danielle Wilson - 200 lines drawing
31. Danielle Wilson - scratchboard
32. Danielle Wilson - fabric painting
33. Tom's Glenn - self-portrait monoprint
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March 2007 ENTRIES INTO THE GREENVILLE TECH UPSTATE HIGH SCHOOL SHOW
The following maximum 9 allowed entries were made this month from WHS to the Greenville Upstate
High School Art Show at Greenville Tech, Greer campus:
Micah Taylor, 3-D sculpture
Alex Wetherill, 3-D sculpture
Ashley Ivester, 3-D pottery
Crystal Manthe, 3-D pottery
Brent Johnson, 3-d sculpture
Brittany Jones, 3-D sculpture
Canaan Whiteneck, 3-D sculpture
Sheri Collins, 3-D sculpture
Anthony Garrera, 3-D pottery
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March 2007 FOCUS ON YOUTH SHOW, SPARTANBURG ARTISTS GUILD AT ART CENTER
It is with great pride that I announce that WHS students Jacob Reeves, Alex Wetherill and Micha
Taylor had art work juried into the Spartanburg Artists Guild FOCUS ON YOUTH SHOW for grades 9-
12 students in Spartanburg County. Micha had a wire sculpture selected; Alex has a scratchboard
drawing in the show; Jacob had a contour figure drawing with a watercolor wash selected.
At the awards reception for the show at the Spartanburg Arts Center in the Artists Guild
Gallery, A.P. Art student Alex Wetherill's scratchboard drawing was awarded BEST IN SHOW,
receiving a grand prize ribbon and an awards check for $200.00.
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March 2007 SPARTANBURG COUNTY YOUTH ART MONTH SHOW
The following maximum # of allowed student works were hung yesterday in the Spartanburg All-
County Youth Art Month (YAM) Show representing Woodruff High School:
Hannah Boyter, ceramic mosaic
Brenda Diaz, fashion illustration
Logan Harrell, portrait drawing
Sabrina Spencer, prisma pencil drawing
Kaitlin Brown, pastel drawing
Brittany Young, prisma candy still life drawing
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March/April '07 - SPARTANBURG REGIONAL HOSPITAL'S HEALING ARTS EXHIBIT
The following 18 students works were hung at Spartanburg Regional Hospital as part of their
Healing Arts Program. The works will be on display for the entire months of March and April
representing a variety of advanced placement student art work.
1. Sabrina Spencer, mixed media self portrait
2. Sabrina Spencer, prisma floral study
3. Brittany Young, mixed media historical reference drawing
4. Brittany Young, monoprint portrait
5. Andrew Westmoreland, prisma egg drawing
6. Andrew Westmoreland, contour wash drawing
7. Brenda Diaz, prima candy still life drawing
8. Danielle Wilson, fabric dye painting
9. Andrea Goodman, pencil historical reference drwg
10. Toma's Glenn, monoprint
11. Alison Monahan, prisma drawing
12. Kaitlin Brown, monoprint
13. Kylie Rotton, pastel historical reference drawing
14. Jessica Thomas, monoprint graphic design image
15. Jasmine Sanders, tryptic prisma pencil drawing
16. Jarod Phillips, mixed media/historical reference drwg
17. Logan Harrell, mixed media/historical reference drwg
18. Canaan Whiteneck, contour pen drawing of toys
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March '07 - MARY WHEELER DAVIS COUNTY SCHOLARSHIP
Jacob Reeves, senior at WHS, has submitted his application to the Arts Partnership of
Spartanburg for the Mary Wheeler Davis county art scholarship. I have my fingers crossed.
Martin Sanchez, a WHS student last year, won the scholarship in 2006.
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April/May '07 - DISTRICT FOUR ART PURCHASE AWARD
Congratulations to th District 4 art purchase award winner from Woodruff High School, Sabrina
Spencer! Sabrina will receive her award at the May School Board Meeting. She had a monprint of
fruit on black paper selected.
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April '07 - AFRICAN AMERICAN YOUNG ARTISTS RENAISSANCE
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2005-2006 WOODRUFF HIGH SCHOOL ART HONORS
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Archibald Rutledge South Carolina Top Ten Art Students:
Martin Sanchez and Victoria Thomas
Arts Partnership/Spartanburg County Foundation
Mary Wheeler Davis Art Scholarship Award:
Martin Sanchez
Bob Inglis Congressional Art Competition:
Alex Wetherill, Victoria Thomas, Sabrina Spencer, Rae Smith, Jasmine Sanders,
Martin Sanchez, Jacob reeves, Logan Harrell, Canaan Whiteneck
USCS A Near Miss Literary Arts Publication:
Martin Sanchez - Second Place
Logan Harrell - Honorable Mention
Brenda Diaz - Honorable Mention
Jacob Reeves
Alex Wetherill
Spartanburg School District Four Purchase Award:
Jacob Reeves
Greenville Tech Upstate High School Exhibition:
Sabrina Spencer
Jessica Hammond
Amy Simpkins
Sherry Kennedy
Heather Marler
Kayla Richards
Amanda Burton
Spartanburg County Youth Art Month Exhibitors:
Amy Simpkins,Martin Sanchez, Logan Harrell,David Morgan,Brenda Diaz, Brittany
Jones,Andrew Westmoreland,Rae Smith,Alex Wetherill, Jasmine Sanders, Jacob
Reeves
USC Upstate FOCUS Invitational Show:
Rae Smith, Logan Harrell, Chandra Allen, Victoria Thomas, Sabrina Spencer,
Brittany Jones, Jacob Reeves, Martin Sanchez, Jessica Hammond, Sherry
Kennedy, Alex Wetherill
Spartanburg Artist Guild Focus on Youth Exhibit:
Second Place, Andrea Goodman
Honorable Mention, Chandra Allen
Gail Kingwill, juried exhibitor
Sherry Kennedy, juried exhibitor
S.C. Teen Talent Art Competition:
Logan Harrell, First Place Mixed Media
S.C. State Scholastics:
Victoria Thomas
Spartanburg Arts Center District Four Fall Exhibit Featured Students:
Chase Teague, Chandra Allen, Jacob Reeves, Alex Wetherill, Canaan Whiteneck,
Martin Sanchez, Jacob Watts, Victoria Thomas
Fall 2005 Piedmont Fair Winners:
Martin Sanchez
Sherry Kennedy
MAY 05
Bob Inglis/4th Congressional Art Competition
First Place Medal (will hang for one year in Washington, DC): JAMIE GRUBBS
Third Place Ribbon: Grant Foster
Honorable Mention: Luke Adams
MAY 05
April Smith's welcome sign design will be used as the official Welcome to
the City of Woodruff! Congratulations to April for her hard work!
MAY 05
Spartanburg Youth Art Month
Grant Foster, Jaime Grubbs, Tiffany Vaughn, April Smith, Laura Simpkins,
Luke Adams, Josh Strickland
APR 05
Greenville Tech Upstate Art Competition
Honorable Mention: Sabrina Spencer
APR 05
Archibald Rutledge TOP TEN SC Senior Art Students
Jamie Grubbs
Grant Foster
JAN 05
S.C State Scholastic Arts
Jamie Grubbs - Silver Key
Brad Lanford - Certificate of Merit
Nicole Thomas - Gold Key
Justin Greene - Certificate of Merit
Rae Smith - Silver Key
NOV 04
FOCUS ON YOUTH Artist Guild of Spartanburg Exhibit
CONGRATULATIONS to Jacob Reeves for winning 3rd Place in this competition
for 10th grade art students, and for honorable mention awards to Alex
Wetherill and Sabrina Spencer. The students received cash awards and gift
certificates!
OCT 04
CONGRATULATIONS to the following students for their awards at the 2004
Piedmont Interstate Fair Fine Arts Competition:
Best in Show: Kaci Lambert
First Place Awards in the Categories: Kaci Lambert, Luke Adams, April Smith,
Jamie Grubbs, Ian Boyter
2nd Place Awards in the categories: Sabrina Spencer
3rd Place Awards in the categories: Logan Harrell, Jaime grubbs, Laura
Simpkins
Honorable Mentions in the categories: Elizabeth Ramirez, Rae Smith, Jessica
Hammond, Nicole Thomas, Kyle Raines, Suzanne Babb, Nathan Craig, Alisha
Jones, Laura Simpkins, Brad Lanford, Wayne Hollingsworth, Alison Monahan,
Jessica Thomas
SEPT 04
BRAVO to the WHS art students with work on display at the Arts Partnership
of Spartanburg for the entire month of September 2004! The following
students were featured in this year's exhibit:
Luke Adams - 3 art works
Suzanne Babb - 1 work
Alex Wetherill - 2 works
Tiffany Vaughn - 1 work
Brittany Young- 1 work
Grant Foster - 4 works
Laura Simpkins - 3 works
Derek Smith - 4 works
Logan Harrell - 2 works
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JULY 04 - CONGRATULATIONS to all AP Art students for the terrific job they
did last school year on their portfolios! We had a tremendous number of
students receive college credit for their year in art last year, with 100%
passing in two of the three art AP's and 80% passing in the third! This is
just one more measure of the terrific job our students at WHS do every day
with their hard work! WOW!
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MAY 04 - Congratulations to Racheal Donnelly for having her artwork selected
for the cover of the USCS Literary Arts publication, A NEAR MISS. Also,
congratulations are in order to Kara Slattery for 3rd Place, and to the
students who also had work included for publication.
Congratulations to Racheal Donnelly for having her art work selected for the
District Art Purchase Award for 2003-2004!
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APRIL 04 - Congratulations to Racheal Donnelly for being selected FIRST
ALTERNATE (#11) to the S.C. Archibald Rutledge Senior Art Portfolio
Competition. Way to go!
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MARCH 04 - Congratulations to this year's Spring 2004 Art Most Improved
Student, A.P. 2-D student Rae Smith! She made tremendous gains last year in
her level of artistic sophistication and mental toughness in solving
technical challenges with her work. I am proud of Rae and her sunny
attitude and sweet personality!
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MARCH 04 - SPARTANBURG COUNTY YOUTH ART MONTH SHOW
Congratulations to the following students who have work selected for
display at the 2004 Spartanburg County Youth Art Month Show this month:
Laura Simpkins
Kacie Lambert
Suzanne Babb
Lauren Grubbs
Jamie Grubbs
Derek Smith
Grant Foster
April Smith
Josh Strickland
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FEBRUARY 04 - GREENVILLE TECH STATE HIGH SCHOOL ART COMPETITION
Congratulations to the following students who had work selected for
display at the 2004 Greenville Tech Update Show. Top awards went to Whitney
Cochran and Rae Smith!
Rae Smith Pottery
Whitney Cochran Ceramic Tile Handmade Table
Nathan Craig Ceramic Sculpture
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FEBRUARY 04 - ARCHIBALD RUTLEDGE
Congratulations to Racheal Donnelly who is the WHS school nominee
in the Archibald Rutledge Art Competition at the SC State Department of
Education. We should be hearing the results of the State Department's Top
Ten selection any day now! Way to go, Racheal, and congratulations on your
hard work on the process-folio!
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FEBRUARY 04 - A NEAR MISS
The following students had work entered from WHS into A NEAR MISS,
the USCS Literary Arts publication - winners will be notified in May of
their award:
1. Tiffany Mauldin Drawing
2. Whitney Cochran Ceramics
3. Lauren Grubbs Monotype
4. Lauren Grubbs Linocut
5. Suzanne Babb Linocut
6. Josh Strickland Ink
7. Jaime Grubbs Oil Pastel
8. Grant Foster Oil Pastel
9. Grant Foster Ink
10. Grant Foster Ink/Ink Wash
11. Josh Strickland Pencil
12. April Smith Ink/Ink Wash
13. April Smith Prisma
14. Nathan Craig Mixed media Ceramics/Wire
15. Nathan Craig Ceramics
16. Kara Slattery Ceramics
17. Derek Smith Gouache Painting
18. Kacie Lambert Scratchboard
19. Whitney Kelly Ceramics
20. Laura Simpkins Ink
21. Laura Simpkins Collograph
22. Zach Brown Mixed Media Clay/Wire
23. Zach Brown Extruded Clay
24. Rae Smith Ceramics
25. Jaime Grubbs Oil Pastel Interior
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JANUARY 2004 S.C. STATE SCHOLASTIC ARTS!
Congratulations to the following students for winning recognition in
the 2004 State Scholastic Art Competition at Lander University!
Silver Key Ceramics Sabrina Spencer
Certificate of Merit Ceramics Heather Leatherwood
Certificate of Merit Drawing Jaime Grubbs
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NOVEMBER 2003 FOCUS ON YOUTH Exhibit at Spartanburg Art Museum
The WHS art department is very proud to announce that the following
students had 15 works accepted to the Spartanburg Artist Guilds "Focus on
Youth" Exhibit. Only 34 works were accepted to the show from all of
Spartanburg County High Schools, and we have 15 of that total number!!
Awards:
Sam Volpe - Second Place Overall ($75.00 and $90 gift certificate to Art,
Craft and Frame)- ceramic teapot
Jaime Grubbs - Honorable Mention ($60.00 gift certificate to Art,
Craft and Frame) - acrylic painting
Accepted works list:
Jaime Grubbs - 3 works
Sam Volpe - 2 works (3-D)
Tiffany Vaughn - 1 work
Josh Strickland - 2 works
Tiffanie Mauldin - 2 works
Laura Simpkins - 3 works
April Smith - 3 works
All accepted students to this year's show will receive a one-
year's junior membership to the Spartanburg Artists Guild.
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Fall 2003 - NATIONAL AWARD RECOGNITION
The Woodruff High School art department was recognized this Fall 2003
by National Scholastic Arts as a DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL EXCELLENCE. This
award goes to schools who have art students selected for award recognition
in the National Scholastic Arts Competition. After six student works were
honored as S.C. State Scholastic winners at Lander University, in June of
2003 WHS senior MAT ALEXANDER was honored in Washington, DC at the Corcoran
Gallery as one of two NATIONAL PORTFOLIO WINNERS from all of South
Carolina! We are so proud of Mat!
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Congratulations to 2003 seniors JAMIE PRATT and KEISHA LANCASTER, two
of the TOP TEN ART STUDENTS honored last spring by the S.C. State Department
of Education in the Archibald Rutledge Portfolio Competition. WHS was proud
to be a part represented in this prestigious state arts event once again!
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2003 PIEDMONT FAIR WINNERS -- WAY TO GO!
The following Woodruff High School students won awards in the 2003
Arts Competition at the Piedmont Interstate Fair in October 2003 in
Spartanburg:
PAINTING DIVISION
First Place
Jaime Grubbs
MIXED MEDIA DIVISION
First Place
Tiffany Vaughn
Second Place
April Smith
FINE ARTS SCULPTURE
First Place
Whitney Cochran
PHOTOGRAPHY
First Place
Ian Boyter
POTTERY/Sculptural
First Place
Rae Smith
Second Place
Shoghunny McBeth
Honorable Mention
Whitney Cochran
POTTERY/Functional
First Place
Genina Meredith
Second Place
Nathan Craig
Honorable Mention
Kara Slattery
Honorable Mention
Whitney Kelly
Honorable Mention
Rochelle Hall
Honorable Mention
Zach Brown
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