On Oct. 8, the National Art Honor Society held their induction ceremony for the 2024-2025 school year. The club helps with community service, fundraisers and paints murals for the local area.
Art teacher Kathryn Curry is one of the society’s advisers.
“The National Art Honor Society is a group within the National Art Education Association,” Curry said. “It’s a nationwide association that students with certain requirements can get into based on art and academic merit.”
Students have to fill out an application at the beginning of the school year and must pass Art l with a 93% or higher and obtain an overall GPA of 86% or higher in order to be inducted into the society.
Senior Maddy Schraff is president of the society. She has the responsibility of helping advise fundraisers, counting the money earned and agreeing on field trips.
“I feel like it’s nice to be honored for a skill that I’ve done for my whole life,” Schraff said. “We don’t really get the recognition that we deserve, so I feel like it’s a good thing to be part of a community of other artists as well.”
The members receive certificates on the night of the induction.
Junior Jacob Crum has been part of the society for two years. He practices mixed media and painting.
“I learn best whenever I can put what’s in my head onto paper and that is a very healing and therapeutic thing to do,” Crum said.
Crum is planning to stay in the National Art Honor Society upon graduation.
“It [National Art Honor Society] shows that we’re a group of very dedicated people,” Crum said. “The core values of it are creativity and wanting to inspire people, so I feel like just being a passionate and dedicated individual is an important aspect of it.”
The society plans to go on their yearly field trip later in the year.
“Usually we go to a museum,” Schraff said. “Last year we went to the Corning Museum of Glass that borders New York. That’s probably what we’ll do this year, or maybe somewhere in Pittsburgh. It’s actually really fun and I enjoy it a lot.”
