Artist/Mentor Grant
ACHF Arts Education
Rebecca Eckdahl, Trek North student from Blackduck, was awarded $600 to mentor with visual artist Terry Honstead of Bemidji, to improve her shading and technical skills with a range of surfaces and materials and increase her ability to express emotion in her drawing and painting.To measure whether she has achieved her outcomes in improving her shading and technical skills with a range of surfaces and materials and to increase her ability to effectively convey emotion in her drawing and painting, the studentÆs mentor and art teacher will offer a critique and comparative evaluation of the studentÆs work before the mentorship and after.
Student achieved her intended outcomes of improving her shading technique to create depth and expressing emotion in her images through the heaviness of a line, use of color, and shape. Together with her mentor she also worked on proportionality and accomp