Arts
2007/2008 Scholastics Regional Arts Awards
Congratulations to nine of our students whose art work was selected to be exhibited in the Georgia regional Scholastics arts awards, at Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design. Those who received a Gold Key award automatically have their work sent to the National Scholastics art awards in 2008. A display of the students work will be in the SAC next week.12th Grade:
Samantha Whately, Mixed Media, Gold Key
Jenna Sanborn, Digital Imagery, Silver Key
Andres Gutierrez, Sculpture, Silver Key
Allison Lenz, Drawing, Honorable Mention
11th Grade:
Anant Leekkulcharoen, Painting, Honorable Mention
Grade 8:
Giles Geddes. Painting, Honorable Mention
Nadine Marfurt, Painting, Gold Key
Grade 7:
Louise Badarani. Mixed Media, , Gold Key
Carson Crane. Mixed Media, Gold Key
IB Arts New York Trip
Toward the end of April, twenty-five 11th grade IB Music, Theatre and Visual Arts students visited New York for a long weekend. The group spent four days immersed in the arts. It was a full weekend visiting museums and galleries, seeing performances and talking to some of the artists involved.
Some of the highlights included the Broadway musical Spring Awakening for the theatre students. The performance was excellent and they had the opportunity to have a talk-back with some of the cast after the show. They also went to visit a sound designer who was working on a new stage set in the Juilliard theater.
The visual arts students were amazed by the all the artwork they saw in the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. They also visited Vicente Wolf’s interior design studio, where they were able to see an artist and his team at work. They looked at designs and plans and were able to listen in on a conference call with a client, a real life experience.
All students went on the backstage tour of the Metropolitan Opera House, which was fascinating. They saw the whole workings of the Opera from the stage being set up to wigs, costumes and props being made. The music students then went on to see the opera The Barber of Seville at the Metropolitan Opera that evening. The music students also went to hear the New York Philharmonic at Avery Hall in Lincoln Center, listened to jazz and saw a performance of Stomp.
All students had a tremendous amount of inspiration over that weekend to help enhance their own artwork back at school.
