St. Petersburg High School 1991 Yearbook (St. Petersburg, FL) - Full Access

c /I 164 • Academics/Fine Arts onstruction Gives Art a New Home This year was the first year many art students used the new art rooms. Much to their surprise, many did not like what awaited them. "Because of the new rooms being on the second floor, we are limited to the classroom; we have no courtyard," explained Sarah Pennington, a sophomore who attended her second year of drawing at SPHS. The new rooms, 215 and 216, created a clean and comfortable atmosphere for many of the students. "Because of the many windows, the kids have the lighting they need to work in," stated Mrs. Jill East, a ten year teacher of 3-D Design, Art History and Ceramics at SPHS. Above: Putting things in the right place. Kara Shadwick places her painting in the rack to finish later. Right: Painting of perfection. Brytt Philips works vigorously on her painting while Joel Smith watches. But the new rooms did new environment. "The have their downs. "We art rooms give me a have to clean up earlier modern atmosphere as I which takes away from work on primitive masks our work time," and other art projects," commented Jeff Gebhart, said Stephanie Todd, a a senior who took senior who attended Mrs. ceramics. He continued, East's 3-D Design class. "The new rooms have to Just like with anything be kept clean, and that's new, it took the students hard to do." some time to adapt to Because of over- their new surroundings. population, teachers By the end of the first found cupboard space semester, things were was a thing of the past. looking up. "There's not much room When compared to to store supplies or art other classrooms, that work," explained Mrs. had leaking ceilings and Joanne Cheek, who patched walls, the art missed the cabinet space students didn't have it so in the West Central bad, after all. If there was rooms. one thing that everyone As some students agreed upon, it was that didn't welcome the new we all anxiously awaited rooms, many did. M;1ny the end of the enjoyed the more construction confusion. moderate styles and the - Cara Capucci