Tri Kappa Art Exhibit & Fine Arts Festival Showcases Students' Achievements In Various Media
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
By David [email protected]
But her name appears eight times on the awards list, including a few of the top prizes.
Ross won the Purchase Award; first place in senior showcase; honorable mentions in mixed media, black and white drawing, graphics; second place in color drawing and in watercolor; and also first place in graphics.
“My focus is Chinese opera because I’m from China,” she said last night at the exhibit. “When I was little I saw a few of the shows. I thought it was awesome. So I thought I could do a focus on it for my senior showcase.”
While she likes detail in her art, she also admits to being impatient. But she kept obsessively working on getting the detail in for her pieces.
After graduating, Ross said she plans to go to IPFW for general studies. She eventually hopes to transfer to Herron School of Art & Design for graphic design.
Senior Morgan Boyer said her art is “very impulsive. Extremely impulsive. I’ll read a book or watch a show and think I can do something with that. I go off on things I like.”
She said her art doesn’t always come out the way she intends it to, and she doesn’t do art of cats as much as she used to, though she likes animals.
Boyer’s awards include two honorable mentions in color drawing, two honorable mentions in painting and second place in senior showcase.
After high school, Boyer plans to head off to Manchester University to major in art education or literature.
“Either way, I’ll still be doing art throughout my life. It’s something I’ve always enjoyed,” she said.
Senior Briana Dunn’s display included a graphic design of actor Don Knotts and some watercolor, but the bulk of it was black-and-white photography.
“My mom’s a photographer so that’s a big help,” she said.
Dunn said black-and-white photos are moody and create a feeling. She also likes to be different so she doesn’t have all her subjects looking directly at the camera.
Her awards include two honorable mentions in watercolor, first place in black-and-white photography, an honorable mention in black-and-white photography and an honorable mention in senior showcase.
After high school, Dunn wants to become a special education teacher.
Allie Wray was one of the three judges for the art exhibit. The other two were John Hawkins and Andrea Miller.
Wray said what stood out about the students’ work this year was that “it was a strong body of work.” There were more graphic design pieces, but the students have all the basic art skills they need.
“It’s still assignment based. Some pushed the limits, but it’s still assignment based and that’s not wrong,” she said.
There were a few categories where the judges debated on how to place some of the work, she said. Several times, the judges had to go back and look at pieces to decide who should place where.
After the judges made their decisions, senior Antonio Medina won the Art Club Scholarship; honorable mentions in senior showcase and black-and-white drawing; and third place in printmaking.
He used Autodesk Revit for creating architectural drawings. He also drew original parts of buildings by hand, then did them with a water and India ink mix to make them pop, emphasizing the main part of the drawing.
He used Illustrator to create a piece of athlete Johnny Manziel.
“I was trying to emphasize some of these structures were my personality. If I’m designing a building for others, the structure has to fit their personality,” he said.
Some of the buildings he designed sprang from seeing a coffee table, boxes or different shapes and he started messing around with them. If he liked them, he would keep them – if not, he kept at it.
After high school, Medina plans to go to Ball State University to study architecture.
While festival attendees and participants walked around, culinary arts students provided hor d’oeuvres. At the beginning of the festival, which was 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, junior Andrea Hartman was slicing pieces of savory cheesecake with crackers for anyone who wanted a slice.
For the event, she said she helped watch the cheesecakes so they didn’t burn and helped assemble some of the other appetizers.
On tables across from the Performing Arts Center auditorium, each of the world languages had a display of student work. Languages represented included Latin, Spanish, French, German and Chinese.
Senior Anna “A.J.” Decker was one of the art students giving demonstrations at the festival. Her demonstration was on stone sculpture using alabaster.
“It’s the second softest stone,” she explained.
For her final project, she said her class had to create a stone animal. They sketched them out, blocked it out on their stones and then began working away on them.
Decker chose to do an elk.
“I think they’re really cool and I like the way they look. They seem really majestic,” she said.
Sophomore Emma Tomasik was one of the students singing on a side stage. She sang mostly cover songs, preferring artists like Regina Spektor and Ingrid Michaelson.
“They’re really good and original, and I think their music sticks out from everyone else’s,” she said.
Advanced Placement Studio Art teacher Don Swartzentruber has been at the high school for 21 of the art exhibit’s 36 years.
“It really is to highlight the efforts and learning of the arts by the students,” he said. “It provides a chance to celebrate the artifacts that result from working through a curriculum and learning to be a creative individual. It also gives students an opportunity to see what else is taught in other classes they may not know about. And it’s a great way for the programs – dance, music, band – to collaborate to celebrate student creativity.”[[In-content Ad]]
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But her name appears eight times on the awards list, including a few of the top prizes.
Ross won the Purchase Award; first place in senior showcase; honorable mentions in mixed media, black and white drawing, graphics; second place in color drawing and in watercolor; and also first place in graphics.
“My focus is Chinese opera because I’m from China,” she said last night at the exhibit. “When I was little I saw a few of the shows. I thought it was awesome. So I thought I could do a focus on it for my senior showcase.”
While she likes detail in her art, she also admits to being impatient. But she kept obsessively working on getting the detail in for her pieces.
After graduating, Ross said she plans to go to IPFW for general studies. She eventually hopes to transfer to Herron School of Art & Design for graphic design.
Senior Morgan Boyer said her art is “very impulsive. Extremely impulsive. I’ll read a book or watch a show and think I can do something with that. I go off on things I like.”
She said her art doesn’t always come out the way she intends it to, and she doesn’t do art of cats as much as she used to, though she likes animals.
Boyer’s awards include two honorable mentions in color drawing, two honorable mentions in painting and second place in senior showcase.
After high school, Boyer plans to head off to Manchester University to major in art education or literature.
“Either way, I’ll still be doing art throughout my life. It’s something I’ve always enjoyed,” she said.
Senior Briana Dunn’s display included a graphic design of actor Don Knotts and some watercolor, but the bulk of it was black-and-white photography.
“My mom’s a photographer so that’s a big help,” she said.
Dunn said black-and-white photos are moody and create a feeling. She also likes to be different so she doesn’t have all her subjects looking directly at the camera.
Her awards include two honorable mentions in watercolor, first place in black-and-white photography, an honorable mention in black-and-white photography and an honorable mention in senior showcase.
After high school, Dunn wants to become a special education teacher.
Allie Wray was one of the three judges for the art exhibit. The other two were John Hawkins and Andrea Miller.
Wray said what stood out about the students’ work this year was that “it was a strong body of work.” There were more graphic design pieces, but the students have all the basic art skills they need.
“It’s still assignment based. Some pushed the limits, but it’s still assignment based and that’s not wrong,” she said.
There were a few categories where the judges debated on how to place some of the work, she said. Several times, the judges had to go back and look at pieces to decide who should place where.
After the judges made their decisions, senior Antonio Medina won the Art Club Scholarship; honorable mentions in senior showcase and black-and-white drawing; and third place in printmaking.
He used Autodesk Revit for creating architectural drawings. He also drew original parts of buildings by hand, then did them with a water and India ink mix to make them pop, emphasizing the main part of the drawing.
He used Illustrator to create a piece of athlete Johnny Manziel.
“I was trying to emphasize some of these structures were my personality. If I’m designing a building for others, the structure has to fit their personality,” he said.
Some of the buildings he designed sprang from seeing a coffee table, boxes or different shapes and he started messing around with them. If he liked them, he would keep them – if not, he kept at it.
After high school, Medina plans to go to Ball State University to study architecture.
While festival attendees and participants walked around, culinary arts students provided hor d’oeuvres. At the beginning of the festival, which was 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, junior Andrea Hartman was slicing pieces of savory cheesecake with crackers for anyone who wanted a slice.
For the event, she said she helped watch the cheesecakes so they didn’t burn and helped assemble some of the other appetizers.
On tables across from the Performing Arts Center auditorium, each of the world languages had a display of student work. Languages represented included Latin, Spanish, French, German and Chinese.
Senior Anna “A.J.” Decker was one of the art students giving demonstrations at the festival. Her demonstration was on stone sculpture using alabaster.
“It’s the second softest stone,” she explained.
For her final project, she said her class had to create a stone animal. They sketched them out, blocked it out on their stones and then began working away on them.
Decker chose to do an elk.
“I think they’re really cool and I like the way they look. They seem really majestic,” she said.
Sophomore Emma Tomasik was one of the students singing on a side stage. She sang mostly cover songs, preferring artists like Regina Spektor and Ingrid Michaelson.
“They’re really good and original, and I think their music sticks out from everyone else’s,” she said.
Advanced Placement Studio Art teacher Don Swartzentruber has been at the high school for 21 of the art exhibit’s 36 years.
“It really is to highlight the efforts and learning of the arts by the students,” he said. “It provides a chance to celebrate the artifacts that result from working through a curriculum and learning to be a creative individual. It also gives students an opportunity to see what else is taught in other classes they may not know about. And it’s a great way for the programs – dance, music, band – to collaborate to celebrate student creativity.”[[In-content Ad]]
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