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Ms. Busan: The Guide to the Hidden Gem of Flagstaff High School Merch
Ms. Busan: The Guide to the Hidden Gem of Flagstaff High School Merch
Isabel Hernandez Rodriguez
You see words and designs on fabric every day. You can’t escape from it. I bet you have more than one shirt that has a graphic on it. This is possible by the help of a little thing called screen printing. We just so happen to have a screen-printing class here at Flagstaff high school, taught by Ms. Busan herself! Did you know that most of our FHS merch is done by the screen printers here at FHS? I interviewed Ms. Busan and ask some questions about screen printing and a bit about her life!
When I asked why she chose to guide students in screen printing of all things, she replied with, “I graduated college with a degree in visual communication and graphic design. Graphic design is my passion, but I did stumble upon screen printing and working in the program. I would say that screen printing is my passion. I can learn it, and I can teach it. As I was teaching it, I was learning how to do it too, and it made me understand how to be a better student.”
I asked her if they had considered screen printing before coming here to FHS, her response was rather interesting, “I knew what it was, but I didn’t know what it meant until I started working here, and I got immersed into what it is. It has its own art form and its own science.
I got curious and asked her what she likes most about screen printing, and about really getting into the meat of it, “my favorite thing about printing is teaching the students and watching them grow from the first time they screen print to the end. I basically am holding their hands. Beginning teaching them what it is, and then at the end it feels like they are teaching me.”
A ton of people don’t know about the FHS screen printing program and who the teacher behind it is, which is sad considering the fact that they make shirts for FHS! I asked her about this, her reply was, “what I like to do is I like to make more shirts for a little community here at school so that other clubs know that we did it. However, we haven’t been able to do as many orders as we usually do, but I guess I need to figure out some advertisement for it. Screen printing is only offered to third year students, but hopefully down the line it could be for graphic design 2 students as well.”
What would FHS’s identity be if we couldn’t don cool FHS designs on shirts? The FHS screen printing program is most worthy of recognition as it forms our identity in the form of powerful merch! Go check out the wonderful prints of FHS screen printing!