Welcome to Pine Tree Art
Pine Tree ISD offers art in grades 1-12. We offer a strong foundation program that culminates in high school with Pre AP and AP Art, AP Art History, Digital Graphics and Photography. We prepare students interested in a career in fine art by encouraging competition on the regional, area and state level at VASE (Visual Arts Scholastic Event).
Our high school Seniors also compete in Scholarship opportunities and take part in local students shows and contests. These students build a strong portfolio in art in traditional mediums, graphics, digital media and photography.
Our students historically have great success in all these areas including this past year’s VASE State competition where the following students received Gold Medals for Excellence.
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On Saturday, March 6th, Pine Tree High School art students competed in the Region 7 VASE District art competition. This year, PTHS had over 40 student artworks submitted to the online judging process out of 890 total artworks competing.
Even with a new system of submitting online, our students were still able to shine through their artwork and writing that took the place of in person interviews. We had 24 student artworks receive regional medals with 4 those students receiving Area medals and advancing to the state competition.
Pine Tree has continued to show strong at competition year after year and this was year no exception. Congratulations also goes to Carmen Gadt, Caitlyn Rutledge, Meagan Fogle, and Wayne Gaddis for helping inspire these students to create amazing artwork that led to these accolades. The following is a list of our medalists.
Esther Alvarez- Regional Medalist
Osiris Barrios - Region and Area Medalist, Advanced to state
Marrissa Bean - Regional Medalist
Angelina Bynum - Regional Medalist
Landon Dennis - Regional Medalist
Abby Herrada - Regional Medalist
Natalie Hunt - Regional Medalist
Haley Phillips- Regional Medalist
Israel Prosser - Regional Medalist
Dominic Rizsak- Regional Medalist
Sandra Rodriguez - Region and Area Medalist, Advanced to state
Ariel Sanchez - Region and Area Medalist, Advanced to state
Madalyn Scaggs - Regional Medalist
Ada Stafford - Regional Medalist
Rylie Waclawczyk - Regional Medalist
Ian Vazquez - Region and Area Medalist, Advanced to state
Marissa Saunders - Regional Medalist
Neftali Barrios- Regional Medalist
Dashonteyona Bell - Regional Medalist
Jaliyah Bradley - Regional Medalist
Marco Echave - Regional Medalist
Alivia Leary- Double Regional Medalist
Melina Venegas - Regional Medalist
All four State VASE Qualifiers, Osiris Barrios, Sandra Rodriguez, Ariel Sanches, and Ian Vazquez, received the highest juror rating and gold medals for their artwork. Osiris Barrios' artwork was also chosen as a Gold Seal Recipient and will be part of the Gold Seal Traveling Show that will move around the state from now till November.
Congratulations to these art students for their amazing accomplishments.
Three Pine Tree Junior High students captured regional and area awards at the Visual Arts Scholastic Event (VASE) held on March 27th. Congratulations to our Pine Tree Pirates!
14 Pine Tree High School Commercial Photography students have won medals at the Southwest Regional Level of the Scholastic Art And Writing Awards. (Our region includes 5 other states.) Two of those students, Neftali Barrios and Devyn Westmoreland won a coveted Gold Seal Award and will continue on to the final, National round. National Finalists will be announced March 13th, and if our students place, they will be celebrated at Carnegie Hall in NYC in June. The National Scholastic Awards are the oldest and longest running awards for art in the country, This year there were 346,000 entrees. Elizabeth White and Sam Szydloski are the teachers.
Gold Key Recipients- finalists for Nationals
Neftali Barrios
Devyn Westmoreland
Silver Key- Regional Award Winners:
Alisa Goodman
Mollee James
Sophia Reyes
Honorable Mention- Regional Award Winners:
Nathan Carbajal
Christian Cisneros
Alyssa Davila
Keelan Davis
Alexia Heatherly
Genesis Hernandez
Al'travion Mumphrey
Hunter Noody
Rodrigo Perez Lara
Patricia Zamorano
Brandy Gonzalez, 10th grade, at Pine Tree High School received 1st place for her digital photo titled "Krystal Refractions in the 2019 Congressional Art Competition. Brandy's photo will represent the 1st District of Texas with Congressman Louie Gohmert at the US Capitol in Washington D.C. for a year long art exhibition. The exhibit opening is in June, and Brandy won 3 plane tickets complements of the Congressional Art Competition/Southwest Airlines/Louie Gohmert to attend the art opening with her parents. Judges were faculty members at East Texas Baptist University. High school students from all over East Texas competed.
We are so proud of Brandy's hard work, creativity, originality, and that Pine Tree High will be represented at our Nation's Capitol. To create this image, Brandy designed a stencil, cut it out with an x-acto knife, projected the shadow's onto her model's face, took a photo, then manipulated that photo with various software. Her model's name is Krystal, and the colors are vivid like a crystal refraction- hence the title.
The Congressional Art Competition began in 1982 to provide an opportunity for members of Congress to encourage and recognize the artistic talents of their young constituents. Since then, over 650,000 high school students have been involved with the nationwide competition.
Link to Congressional Art Competition: https://www.house.gov/educators-and-students/congressional-art-competition
Check out this news story from CBS19 about Brandy and this Longview News Journal Article.