Earlier this semester, our art department applied and was accepted to participate in the Vans Custom Culture, a national shoe designing competition. Up to 3,000 schools nationwide had the opportunity to participate, and we were fortunate enough to make the cut this year.

Students submitted designs based on the four shoe themes: Art, Local Flavor, Action Sports, and Music.  Designs by Vince Hartline, Taylar King, and Killian Roehr were chosen as the winners. Designs were tweaked and four art students were chosen to transfer them to the shoes. Vince, Destinie Bradberry, Heather Remm, and Zane Fickbohm worked extremely hard designing, creating, and applying the art to the physical pairs of shoes.

Jim Shields was kind enough to lend us his photography expertise to take photos of the shoes. Please view the attached images, which were submitted for the competition. In addition to the photos, we made a 1-2 minute video, thanks to Jake Polesky and Hannah Nieto.  When you see these students, please congratulate them on their hard work and dedication.

On April 24th we will find out if we made it into the top 10 schools in our region. Wish us luck.

The shoes are on display across from the high school office in our glass display case.

Action_Sports Art Group Local_Flavor Music