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.
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.
Latest News
|
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
|
|
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.
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.
Teachers
|
Wayne Gaddis
Pine Tree High School Lead Teacher for Fine Arts I teach Art 3 / 4, Pre AP 2 / 3 / 4, AP Art 4, 3D Art, and our Drone 101 courses. A little bit about me I started my college career at Kilgore College and received a certificate in Photography and my Associates of Arts from there before moving on to Stephen F. Austin State University. I finished up with my Bachelors of Fine Art and Education in 2013. My first year of teaching was in Marshall ISD. The next year I started with Pine Tree ISD and now I have been in the district for seven years. My Art background is very broad. I enjoy painting, drawing, sculpting, and just creating in general. I have been flying drones commercially for just over a year as a certified Remote Pilot. I am using my experience with the Part 107 Remote Pilot Certification process to help our students to have the same opportunity to become certified Remote pilots and use their certification to start their own business as a commercial drone pilot. |
|
Carmen Gadt
Pine Tree High School Hello! My name is Carmen Gadt, I am a Pine Tree Alumna - Class of 2010. After high school, I went on to play softball at Southwestern University where I received a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree with a focus in painting in 2014. I am so blessed to be at my alma mater teaching what I love. As well as being a teacher, I am also a professional artist. |
|
Spring Parnell
Pine Tree High School Art I Teacher My name is Spring Parnell. I am from Alaska and have a Bachelor's in Art from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, in Fairbanks, Alaska and an Associates of Fine Art from the Institute of American Indian Art, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. My biggest influence to pursue art was from my Middle and High School Art Teacher. He saw I was very motivated to create art and fostered a very open and friendly atmosphere which encouraged me to produce many pieces of art. In my class, I encourage students to pursue the kind of art that makes them happy. Because when they enjoy what they're doing, it motivates them to do more and more. When they do that, they become better artists and that is how to become successful. |
|
Meagan Boswell
PTJH Art |
|
Jordan Mosley
Pine Tree Middle School 6th Grade Art |
|
Olga Guerra
Pine Tree Middle School 5th Grade Art Hola & hello there! My name is Olga Guerra but my students call me Mrs. Olga. I am a California girl born and raised but my husband and I planted roots over 10 years ago in the great state of Texas. We have 2 awesome kiddos, Olivia 9 and Sebastian 6. We are a house full of pirates. I’m a paraprofessional that gets to have fun every single day in the art classroom at the middle school. I’ve been with PTISD going on 4 wonderful years now. Being creative & artsy gives me life! It’s always a great day to be PT pirate. |
|
Misti Scaggs
Parkway Elementary 1st - 4th Grade Art My name is Misti Scaggs. I am a full time wife and mother and part time artist who is secretly obsessed with Bob Ross! I have been teaching art for 7 years and am in love with my job. I have been married to my husband for 20 years and have 4 wonderful children and one grandson. Tyler is my oldest then we were blessed with Madalyn, Lillian, and Wyatt who are all Proud PT Pirates. I graduated from The Art Institute of Dallas with a degree in Fine Arts and finished my education at LeTourneau University where I earned my Bachelor's degree in Elementary Education. Misti R. Scaggs mscaggs@ptisd.org mrspaintbrush.blogspot.com Pine Tree Parkway Elementary Art Longview, TX 75604 903-295-5151 |
|
|
Andy Cain
Birch Elementary 1st - 4th Grade Art |
