Wrangell High School is one of 250 schools nationwide selected to design a pair of Vans brand shoes that represent the community’s hometown pride.
Wrangell High School junior Paige Baggen said it was important to represent local and Native art in their designs.“So this is just a picture of the nose that I took in front of Bob’s,” Baggen said. “
For the Vans shoe design contest, students created designs representing their hometown. Wrangell students created designs with fireworks and a summer sunset on the left shoe, Northern Lights and a winter sunset on the right shoe. Baggen spearheaded the shoe-painting project, with assistance from Wiederspohn and other students in the class.
“We had some class-wide discussions and my whole entire whiteboard was just filled with ideas like what makes Wrangell — Wrangell? Why are we lucky to live here?” Morse said. “And everything came out. We have the river. We have glaciers. We have wildlife. We have the Fourth of July. We have petroglyphs.”
“We’re just trying to be very positive and forward-thinking and keep it light,” Morse said. “We went from not thinking that this was probably never going to happen to ‘Oh my gosh, we have shoes and now we’re in the middle of this.’”“Of course, there’s lots of schools across the nation, and everybody is suffering from the same issues,” she said. “COVID is a problem, it’s hard to get people to work, but we have really specific issues that apply only to us.
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