Art Mart, a little closet in a loud hall turned into a room filled with different prints and creations made from art students all around the school.
“Art Mart is this little room that we created into this place,” senior art student Lily Price said. “People can sell prints, jewelry, ceramics, anything that they make, basically, either at home or in school.”
Art Mart is located in the social studies hallway next to art teacher Lexi Soboleski’s room, 219. Students are able to browse or purchase items from the wide selection of student art during Hornet Homeroom every school day except for Thursday.
“Everything’s under $10 unless it’s a really big ceramic piece, but everything’s around $1 to $5,” Price said.
Art Mart gives students the opportunity to purchase pieces created by other students during Hornet Homeroom or at the larger spring showcase that the art department hosts.
The entirety of the Art Mart is run by the students who organize, price, and sell the art pieces with some input from art teacher Katie Pfenninger, advisor for National Art Honors Society (NAHS) and crafts teacher at Emmaus High School.
“Art teachers were trying to come up with a different way to show our student’s artwork. So it had started out as a gallery space, but we found that we needed a place to give our students some way of getting into selling their artwork and becoming a little bit more professional,” Pfenninger said.
NAHS members who work inside of the Art Mart room will receive time towards their required hours. The members used to be able to fulfill their hours by attending Art Club. However, Art Club was taken over by NAHS, which replaced it with Art Mart and is now viewed as more of an activity for students rather than a club.
All money earned from Art Mart is put into funding different scholarships, which will be awarded to art students and NAHS members. Art students can be included in the running for the AP
ceramics, crafts, NAHS, drawing and painting, and printmaking scholarships by getting the information from the art department.
“We wanted to give our students more opportunities for doing work,” Pfenninger said. “Not just inside the school, but outside of school, and give it more of an honor.
