Getting ready to make her last year of high school memorable, club co-leader senior Katie Steiner prepares 36 Arts to be a more successful club.

According to Steiner, 36 Arts plans to have teachers come in and help students creatively express themselves.

“We are going to try to bring in people from classes after school to help students kickstart their creative energy,” Steiner said. “We might have an art teacher come in and (show students how to) do watercolor (painting) or an english teacher come in and (teach students more about) grammar.”

Steiner said the biggest change to the club will be having a website instead of a printed magazine.

“One of the bigger things we are going to be doing is we have a solid website coming up,” Steiner said. “We will be doing poetry slams and outreach so the students know about the website, and they can upload their photos or drawing or any kind of media they use.”

Club co-leader and senior Ciara Woida said the website should have a positive effect on the amount of people students’ art reaches.

“I think (the website) is going to be a lot easier for kids to have access to, so they’ll be more likely to participate rather than buy a magazine, which never really seems to go over well with the students,” Woida said.

Club adviser Christopher Nordmark said having a website will also benefit the club financially.

“(36 Arts) used to sell (magazines) for around $5, which was at a huge loss because they cost around $8 to print. That was kind of a dead end business model,” Nordmark said.

According to Steiner, the purpose of the club is to give students a chance to show their creative side.

“I feel like a lot of people, because of their schedules, can’t take classes for poetry or creative ways to express themselves, so we want to give students different ways to express themselves with art or ways they might not have thought about,” Steiner said.

Nordmark said the club can be beneficial to students by allowing them a way to share their artwork.

“I think (the club) is a really great way for students to get their art out there. A lot of people make art then sit and say ‘oh I made that’ and maybe show a friend or something,” Nordmark said. “I want to bring it to a larger audience because that can be empowering to (the student).”

36 Arts meets 8:10 to 8:35, Thursday mornings in C367.