Fine Arts, Food Sampled at Warsaw High School
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
By David [email protected]
The annual WCHS Fine Arts Festival took place in the school’s Performing Arts Center, with the 35th annual Tri Kappa Art Exhibit in the black box theater, from 6 to 9 p.m. The associate chapter of Tri Kappa has provided financial support for the exhibit since it started.
The WCHS dance classes, strings ensemble and jazz band performed in the auditorium. Student-produced music videos were shown on the auditorium’s big screen. Demonstrations of the potter’s wheel, stone carving and painting were given near the rotunda while individual musical performances were staged in the lobby. There were displays of cultural art and crafts, while Warsaw Area Career Center culinary arts students served appetizers and desserts, sponsored by Martin’s Supermarket. Stir fry also was offered.
Senior Ashley Neubaum won several awards and honorable mentions for her art in the exhibit, including runner-up best of show and first place in mixed media, black-and-white drawing and color drawing.
“My focus was the different love goddesses from different cultures. I chose to do paper cutting so I could explore different layers and colors. It’s unique because not too many people are doing it,” she explained.
From doing the paper-cutting, Neubaum said she learned “a lot about patience.” It strengthened her drawing skills and she also learned a lot about cultures and what they think is important.
“Every culture has a different idea about beauty, which I think is neat because there is no single idea,” she said.
After graduating, she plans to double major in graphic design and marketing at Purdue University. She wants to be a creative director for a company because it’s a mix of business and creativity.
Focusing on fashion, senior Zoe Smyth wanted to create designs for the average woman, not runway models. She wanted to create designs which would sell in a boutique.
“I went with a lot of different looks so it would appeal to a broader target market,” she said.
Creating lots of different styles, she drew her designs, inked them, used water colors on them, scanned them in and finished them up in Photoshop® to provide backgrounds.
Smyth won second place and honorable mention in drawing-color. After graduation, she wants to major in apparel merchandising and minor in fashion design, business and Chinese, all at Indiana University-Bloomington.
Senior Leanna Engle creates a variety of work. She won second place in drawing-black & white, honorable mention in pottery, first in painting and in sculpture. She also won third place in senior showcase.
She said each piece of hers was different. Some were of her friends, a sweatshirt was commissioned for the band while a piece of a distorted penguin has an environmental message. Her award-winning pottery piece expressed how she feels when she has a panic attack.
“I’m pretty excited. I wasn’t expecting much,” Engle said of her awards.
Warsaw Area Career Center culinary arts senior Scott Flannery was one of the students demonstrating Yakisoba, a Japanese stir fry. He said the difference with it from other stir fry was the choice of vegetables and meat. On average, he said it could take about 10 minutes to make, depending on the ingredients and how many people he was serving.
Senior Sam Daggett was one of the other culinary arts students walking around the festival and serving appetizers and desserts. He said they made enough food for 200 servings.
“For everything it took a few good hours to get it done, with a few preparations done over the course of the past week because it does take a while,” Daggett said.
Teresa Daggett, Sam’s mother and culinary arts teacher, said the “menu” for the night included salmon mousse on a slice of cucumber, honey grilled chicken with a peach chutney, spinach strudel, swiss chard and chevre tart, vegetable melt crostini, mixed berry panna cotta, mini chocolate cupcakes with cream cheese frosting, chocolate raspberry tarts and banana bread truffles.
Teresa and Flannery decided on the menu because Flannery is an advanced student.
Sophomore Taylor Graves was demonstrating surrealist painting, while senior Cordell King was throwing on the potter’s wheel.
“It’s nice to just come in and throw on the wheel,” he said. “We do it second year, and this is my third year doing it. We don’t get to use the wheel until the second year. The third year, we get to do more advanced work.”
Students in Dr. Shu-Chun Tseng’s chinese classes had their Chinese New Year art on display on one table. She said her students decorated Chinese fireworks with Chinese sayings of good fortune.
“We want to get rid of bad luck from last year and bring in good fortune,” Tseng said.
Warsaw Community Schools Superintendent Dr. Craig Hintz was one of the hundreds of people to take in the festival. He said the arts is very critical to the education it offers its students from kindergarten to 12th grade.
“Our students are talented in many, many areas and we’re grateful for what we can offer here and the unbelieveable benefit it has for students, staff and the community. In the last two years we’ve added strings, drama and dance to complement our fine arts offerings,” he said.
He said he believes it’s what the community wants in the education of its students.[[In-content Ad]]
The annual WCHS Fine Arts Festival took place in the school’s Performing Arts Center, with the 35th annual Tri Kappa Art Exhibit in the black box theater, from 6 to 9 p.m. The associate chapter of Tri Kappa has provided financial support for the exhibit since it started.
The WCHS dance classes, strings ensemble and jazz band performed in the auditorium. Student-produced music videos were shown on the auditorium’s big screen. Demonstrations of the potter’s wheel, stone carving and painting were given near the rotunda while individual musical performances were staged in the lobby. There were displays of cultural art and crafts, while Warsaw Area Career Center culinary arts students served appetizers and desserts, sponsored by Martin’s Supermarket. Stir fry also was offered.
Senior Ashley Neubaum won several awards and honorable mentions for her art in the exhibit, including runner-up best of show and first place in mixed media, black-and-white drawing and color drawing.
“My focus was the different love goddesses from different cultures. I chose to do paper cutting so I could explore different layers and colors. It’s unique because not too many people are doing it,” she explained.
From doing the paper-cutting, Neubaum said she learned “a lot about patience.” It strengthened her drawing skills and she also learned a lot about cultures and what they think is important.
“Every culture has a different idea about beauty, which I think is neat because there is no single idea,” she said.
After graduating, she plans to double major in graphic design and marketing at Purdue University. She wants to be a creative director for a company because it’s a mix of business and creativity.
Focusing on fashion, senior Zoe Smyth wanted to create designs for the average woman, not runway models. She wanted to create designs which would sell in a boutique.
“I went with a lot of different looks so it would appeal to a broader target market,” she said.
Creating lots of different styles, she drew her designs, inked them, used water colors on them, scanned them in and finished them up in Photoshop® to provide backgrounds.
Smyth won second place and honorable mention in drawing-color. After graduation, she wants to major in apparel merchandising and minor in fashion design, business and Chinese, all at Indiana University-Bloomington.
Senior Leanna Engle creates a variety of work. She won second place in drawing-black & white, honorable mention in pottery, first in painting and in sculpture. She also won third place in senior showcase.
She said each piece of hers was different. Some were of her friends, a sweatshirt was commissioned for the band while a piece of a distorted penguin has an environmental message. Her award-winning pottery piece expressed how she feels when she has a panic attack.
“I’m pretty excited. I wasn’t expecting much,” Engle said of her awards.
Warsaw Area Career Center culinary arts senior Scott Flannery was one of the students demonstrating Yakisoba, a Japanese stir fry. He said the difference with it from other stir fry was the choice of vegetables and meat. On average, he said it could take about 10 minutes to make, depending on the ingredients and how many people he was serving.
Senior Sam Daggett was one of the other culinary arts students walking around the festival and serving appetizers and desserts. He said they made enough food for 200 servings.
“For everything it took a few good hours to get it done, with a few preparations done over the course of the past week because it does take a while,” Daggett said.
Teresa Daggett, Sam’s mother and culinary arts teacher, said the “menu” for the night included salmon mousse on a slice of cucumber, honey grilled chicken with a peach chutney, spinach strudel, swiss chard and chevre tart, vegetable melt crostini, mixed berry panna cotta, mini chocolate cupcakes with cream cheese frosting, chocolate raspberry tarts and banana bread truffles.
Teresa and Flannery decided on the menu because Flannery is an advanced student.
Sophomore Taylor Graves was demonstrating surrealist painting, while senior Cordell King was throwing on the potter’s wheel.
“It’s nice to just come in and throw on the wheel,” he said. “We do it second year, and this is my third year doing it. We don’t get to use the wheel until the second year. The third year, we get to do more advanced work.”
Students in Dr. Shu-Chun Tseng’s chinese classes had their Chinese New Year art on display on one table. She said her students decorated Chinese fireworks with Chinese sayings of good fortune.
“We want to get rid of bad luck from last year and bring in good fortune,” Tseng said.
Warsaw Community Schools Superintendent Dr. Craig Hintz was one of the hundreds of people to take in the festival. He said the arts is very critical to the education it offers its students from kindergarten to 12th grade.
“Our students are talented in many, many areas and we’re grateful for what we can offer here and the unbelieveable benefit it has for students, staff and the community. In the last two years we’ve added strings, drama and dance to complement our fine arts offerings,” he said.
He said he believes it’s what the community wants in the education of its students.[[In-content Ad]]
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