One project at a time, VHS is improving the campus with art
Ventura High School’s PTSA commissioned post art to beautify the VHS campus. In April, they started planning and creating sketches with local...
Junior Mateo Navarro organized the Dolores Huerta Unity Project alongside Ventura Unified administration, the Latino Rights club, Ventura County community members and artist Mauricio Ramirez
Mateo...
2022’s chalk festival showed off VHS art student’s creative talent
VHS’ annual chalk festival was held on May 11 and 12, 2022. The festival allowed students to use chalk and recreate a painting...
Lauren Minadeo’s art students took a trip to Italy over spring break, how did it go?
Over the 2022 spring break (April 4-8), VHS art teacher Lauren Minadeo took 16 of her students to Italy. Originally...
Campus beautification by student artists
In the hallway between the library staircase and the ASB room at Ventura High School, several works of art can be found. These art panels were created by VHS students....
An overview of the Digital Art & Design class
Digital Art & Design is a fine art elective that is taught by Elektra Cohen during the fourth and fifth periods. It has been at Ventura High School...
An inside look at the classes of art teachers Ms. Mckee and Ms. Minadeo
Art teachers Lauren Minadeo and Megan Mckee have been working this year to make art an enjoyable experience for their students....
VHS senior obtains over 4 million likes on Tik Tok
Senior Paola Chavez has been an artist her whole life. She said, “I learned how to draw because I've always been pretty creative so when I was a kid...
The annual Ventura High School Chalk Festival took place on April 17 and 18 on the Catalina lawn at VHS. According to art teacher Lauren Minadeo, around 35 students participated this year. In past years,...
Some Ventura High School students -especially students with art related electives- have been talking about school funding for the Art program.
How much funding does an art teacher receive? Is it...
The Ice Cream Museum is a pop-up museum currently operating in San Francisco and Los Angeles until October 2017, and was also a huge hit in New York.
The museum is definitely not traditional. It...
![Washington, who is the artist of this work, said, [They figured out their art was being put in the showcase] by Mrs. Minadeo submitting it and then she just told me that it was going to be on the cover of the poster [promoting the exhibit].” Photo by: Avea Baker](https://thecougarpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/11-713x900.jpg)
![Senior Rhianne Martinez stated, Honestly I just picked it [my drawing] because I thought it was gonna be easy. Photo by: Ryan King](https://thecougarpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/ME-Rhianne-Martinez-900x675.jpg)
