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Kenia Martinez
SJHS Staff Writier
Here at Spingville Junior High we have students with many different talents. And the school’s curriculum offers a couple of classes for those wishing to learn more and practice those talents.
The school offers a class called Creative Writing for those who love to write. It’s a class where students can practice not [...]
Kenia Martinez
SJHS Staff Writer
There’s a new professor teaching the fine arts at Springville Junior High. Mr. Mitch Cudney replaced Mr. Jethro Gillispie as the art and photography teacher. Mr. Cudney has been teaching for four years, but this is his first year teaching at a junior high.
According to Mr. Cudney, there’s probably more good art [...]
Halley Rencher
SJHS Staff Writer
With the school year ending and summer opening up with opportunities, you know some things are bound to change. That is exactly what is happening at the SJHS. Our wonderful art teacher, Mr. Jethro Gillespie, is leaving to go to the new Maple Mountain High School.
“I don’t look forward to leaving the [...]
KresLynn Knouse
SJHS Staff Writer
On Friday, May 1st, our very own Springville Junior High art teacher will be holding an art show at the Mode Boutique (45 North University Avenue in Provo). Mr. Jethro Gillespie will be displaying his own artwork for public viewing.
“Mr. Gillespie has a very unique art style, it would be a treat [...]
Nikki Drake
SJHS Staff Writer
The Art Foundations classes at Springville Junior High School are going to pay The Hogle Zoo a nice little visit on May 1st. They get to do school work and have fun at the same time. They will be drawing animals and getting a closer look at the colors for the school [...]
Mr. Gillespie helping seventh grade students with their still-life drawings.
Sariah Morris
SJHS Staff Writer
Mr. Jethro Gillespie, SJHS art teacher, loves what he does. He became interested in art when he was a small child and that interest increased throughout high school. He said that family members and friends encouraged him and he loves to make art.
When [...]
Reese Brunson, foundation board member; Kristina Christensen, foundation board member; Jethro Gillespie, art teacher; Lana Hiskey, foundation executive director, and Ken Money, foundation board member
Alondra Lopez
SJHS Staff Writer
Mr. Jethro Gillespie, SJHS art teacher, recently received a grant for the Nebo Foundation for a document camera. This document camera helps him to show his classes [...]
Kristi Hatch
SJHS Staff Writer
This year during the middle of October, the 7th grade art classes at Springville Junior High School folded, wrote, and burned their secrets. Jethro Gillespie, the art teacher at SJHS, told the students that they would be doing a project that involved writing down their secrets. The students brought colorful [...]
Darryl Barnes
SJHS Staff Writer
Every so often a student named Kate Baxter grabs her pencil (and various other art tools), sits down at her desk, and creates art. She is an artist of great skill they say. Now we will see the methods of her greatness.
Kate Baxter is a 9th grade student who is an artist. [...]
The knight mural painted by art students under direction of Mr. Gillespie.
Ethan Trunnell
SJHS Staff Writer
Last year Mr. Darrel Rolfe, the principal at SJHS, asked Mr. Jehtro Gillespie, the art teacher, about replacing the meadow mural with something more SJHS-centered. Mr. Gillespie liked the idea of the students painting it. The next day he asked for [...]
Kat Smith and Afton Brown are two of the students in Art 1.
by Carolyn Brown
SJHS Staff Writer
Art Foundations is the most advanced art class at Springville Junior High School. In the class, students create art in a variety of media. They make collages, sculptures, prints, and many other things. When choosing the projects for each [...]
self-pruner by Jethro Gillespie
by McKenna Gleave
SJHS News Writer
Jethro Gillespie is Springville Junior High’s beloved art teacher. We are extremely proud to announce that he will be displaying his new works on Friday, October 17, 2008. He will be part of the gallery stroll held inside “Signed and Numbered,” under Slowtrain Records, at 221 East [...]
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