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GSL art teacher wins high school art educator of the year award

Submitted by admin on Wed, 11/13/2019 - 12:56pm
Shanda Landes stands in her art room at GSL High School as her first class of the day enters. She was recently honored by the Art Educators of Minnesota.
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To many, it’s no surprise Glencoe-Silver Lake (GSL) art instructor Shanda Landes won the Art Educators of Minnesota (AEM) High School Art Teacher of the Year award.
Landes was presented the award at the AEM fall conference in Mankato Saturday, Nov. 2. She maybe could’ve won 10 years ago when she was originally nominated for the award, but technical difficulties and a busy schedule got in the way of winning in 2009.
But the award was going to reach Landes — it was inevitable. She has an extensive work history in both art and education. She’s been a graphic designer, a newspaper designer and an independent contractor. Landes has done the grunt work needed to get her foot in the door. But commercial art wasn’t her calling. Teaching and advocating for art has been.
LeAnn Atchison, a MACCRAY High School art teacher, nominated Landes for the award, but she wasn’t the only one. Andrea Wigern, the GSL kindergarten through sixth-grade art teacher, also nominated Landes but found out she was too late — Atchison beat her to it along with another GSL teacher.
“I have worked with Shanda in the K-12 art department at Glencoe-Silver Lake schools for a little over 16 years. She has served the GSL school district for over 36 years. Shanda has been an inspiration to me and my work in the elementary art program, encouraging me to keep striving, stretching and growing,” Wigern said of her co-worker during the AEM event.

(For the complete story, see the Nov. 13 print edition of The Chronicle.)