Art, anatomy field trips a learning experience

Art classes travel to Nelson-Atkins art museum

Heather Baker | editor in chief

Brianna Guinn’s art classes, along with Jess Rutledge’s world history classes, got to expand their views of art and culture on March 19.

Students visited the Nelson-Atkins art museum in Kansas City, Missouri to experience all the museum had to offer.

“The trip to Nelson-Atkins was important because juniors and seniors got to experience leadership,” Guinn said, “and the rest of the involved students got to experience culture via the architecture of the Kansas City Missouri Plaza and the vast amounts of stuff the museum holds.”

Guinn describes “stuff” as everything the museum holds, because not everyone sees everything as art, and the things inside the museum stretch students’ ideas of what art is and can be.

“I wanted students to get the experience of owning their own knowledge on this trip,” Guinn said, “and giving them the agency to explore a collection that represents a large span of time that their fellow humans lived in, made lives in and left their objects for us to relate to.”

Guinn wishes she could’ve taken the whole school, because she believes the experience is completely worth the time and the drive. Most people would think a museum like that wouldn’t have anything of value for kids from a school like WHS, but she saw that the biggest complaint she got from the students was that they didn’t have time to see everything. “Most of my students in art have pretty much demanded to do it again,” Guinn said.

Anatomy visits cadaver lab

Sophia Castillo l editor in chief 

Last week anatomy students took an annual trip to Cloud County Community College to visit a cadaver lab. Students got a hands-on interactive presentation detailing how muscles, tendons, skin and organs work and protect the body. 

 “I think it’s a great learning experience for the kids in anatomy, they get to see and experience lots that they might not otherwise have a chance to learn about,” anatomy teacher Brandi Miller said. 

This is the ninth year that anatomy students have been on the trip. “This is my ninth year taking kids on the trip, it’s been pretty consistent every year we’ve gone. We went to K-State my first year here and it was not as interactive or as great of an experience as Cloud was,” Miller said.

The trip gave students perspective on how the body works. “I learned more about the actual size of the organs, some of them were a lot bigger than I thought,” senior Abby Wallin said.