Wednesday nights are usually filled with homework, naps, and Netflix, but what about adding some art to your nights as well, Ceramics teacher David Jafari started up Wednesday Night Art Nights for students to come up and have a fun working environment.
“I just wanted to create a different type of atmosphere where people could come in and make things and possibly bring their friends,” Jafari said. “I was also using it as a time for me to organize and work in here.”
The art nights aren’t just for people who are enrolled in ceramics but anyone who wants to come can.
“I have people who aren’t in ceramics classes now, but who I have had before,” Jafari said. “Kids that just want to come in and work on the wheel or who just come in and make a small project.”
These nights attract many students for it’s just a fun way to hang out and create without being worried about getting a grade or not.
“It’s cool to hang out with my friends and do some art,” senior John Randall said. “I’m not really good at art so when I go up it’s fun because there is no pressure to be good because there is no grade in the class”
Some students even use it as an outlet to get away from school work.
“You can go up there and just get away from homework and all that stuff,” senior Dylan Haley said. “So, I just go up to school and do that.”
With it being open to everyone and art supplies not being cheap one would think that it would cost a lo

t of money, but Jafari has found a way to reuse the materials.
“Not really much money goes into it because most of the clay I’ve recycled from previous semesters, Jafari said. “I save all the scraps of clay and put it into a bucket of water and it turns back into a slurry, which is like a mud and then I add some of this dry clay to it and the machines mixes it up and then it’s ready to go again.”
Like the clay, Jafari likes these nights to be relaxed and flexible.
“This past Wednesday there were only like 4 kids there and so it was more relaxed with just small conversations because everyone was working on their projects so there wasn’t much talking,” Haley said. “Other times there’s 8 or 9 kids there and then it’s just playing music and having fun.”
The whole purpose of these nights is to be fun, laid back and not like a typical school environment, according to Jafari.
“It was funny the first couple nights Kevin Seetharaman would come up and he’d always ask me if he could go to the bathroom,” Jafari said. “I was like yeah, you can go do whatever you want it’s 7 o’clock.”