Visual & Performing Arts Program
Colusa County Office of Education
Pierce Joint Unified School District
Arbuckle Elementary School // Grand Island Elementary School
Lloyd G. Johnson Junior High School // Pierce High School
Photographs provided by Pierce High School Art Teacher Sierra Reading
This piñata was displayed at the Crocker Art Museum for their semi-annual Youth Art Month in March of 2024! Pictured is artist Marisol Hernandez.
2023 Mural for the Local Park in Arbuckle. The image was painted with the feedback of the officers who use the building.
To prepare for public murals, students design, pitch and create non-permanent murals in and around our school..... with masking tape! Before any designs are put up on the walls, students have to get their designs approved by the principal.
At the end of every semester, we put on our own art exhibition at the Pierces Arts Showcase.
Students bring in nonpermanent walls to hang up artwork they made throughout the semester, creating our own white wall gallery within the main hallway of Pierce High School.
This event coincides with the band performances, creating a large event celebrating all of Pierce's Visual and Performing Student Artists.
Every September to celebrate Mexican Independence Day, students create piñatas! But instead of the normal pinatas you see at the store, their piñatas must be of an object that they see or interact with every day. This one is from a student who commutes to school: the Lonestar Road sign.
Pierce High School has created the "Art 3" course where students create their own portfolio of work, focusing on a specific theme.
This was made by artist Vanessa Pedrero in the Spring of 2026, and was also shown at this year's Youth Art Month exhibition at the Crocker Art Museum.