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Cultural Connections

Cultural Connections

Joanna Im May 28, 2019

As the Mariachi band performed, she said she felt embarrassed walking through the crowd. However, as Anna Martinez-Yang ’20 approached the center of the room and saw those around her,...

Chronicle Staff Writer Jaidev Pant ’21 observes the faculty artists’ artwork displayed in Feldman-Horn Gallery. The opening reception for the display took place March 4.  Credit: Lucas Lee/Chronicle

Faculty showcases artwork in gallery

Eugene Wyman March 21, 2019

Faculty artists displayed their artwork, sculptures, photography and paintings at the Visual Arts Department Faculty Exhibit in Feldman-Horn gallery. Jesse Chehak ’97, Claire Cochran ’06, Cheri...

Samantha Ko ’19 studies traditional painting in Korea

September 17, 2018

Chronicle Art Director Samantha Ko ’19, the recipient of the HWGo! Asia Initiative fellowship, spent the first three weeks of her summer studying how to paint in the Korean traditional style and learned...

Hall to retire after 35 years at the school

Luke Schneider June 1, 2018

Visual arts teacher Marianne Hall will retire after 35 years at the school. Hall has taught The History and Art of Modern Europe and The World and Drawing and Painting I, as well as other eleventh and...

Photo illustration by Sofia Heller, Sam Ko, and Alison Oh

Jam-packed: Students share their opinions on the art and athletic requirements

Sophie Haber January 10, 2018

Watching her new classmates slide into a split on the black floor, Jess Grody ’19 felt nervous and out of place. “What if everyone’s better than me? What if it’s too difficult?” she thought,...

Tabula Rasa

Tabula Rasa

Claire Keller February 16, 2017

Rasa Barzdukas ’17 sits on the quad, occasionally looking up from her sketchpad. Pages are spilling out of her notebook, each covered in sketches waiting to be perfected in the studio. Barzdukas has...

Students named Scholastic Art & Writing Award recipients

Kate Schrage February 6, 2017

The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards named 119 students as gold key, silver key and honorable mention recipients for the regional competition on Friday. Sixteen students were awarded for writing and...

Arianna Shooshani ’18 was recognized by the YoungArts organization as a finalist for her submitted photography. Shooshani submitted five pieces in a unified body of work and five of her strongest photographs to YoungArts this year. Credit: Printed with permission of Ariana Shooshani 18

YoungArts names upper school photographer, singer as finalists in nationwide art competition

Isabelle Eshraghi November 29, 2016

YoungArts recognized Arianna Shooshani ’18 and Elizabeth Gaba ’17 as finalists for their 2017 contest submissions. Shooshani and Gaba were among the 691 artists selected out of a pool of 7,970 applicants...

Department receives three new kilns

Isabelle Eshraghi September 9, 2016

Three new 4,000 pound kilns were delivered by crane to the upper school visual arts department on Aug. 19. These new kilns are replacements for older kilns that have been at the Upper School for more than...

Maddy Daums 18 photo is pictured. Credit: Maddy Daum/Chronicle

Student wins scholastic award for photography

Sophie Cohen June 17, 2016

The Scholastic Press Association awarded Maddy Daum ’18 the Best-in-Grade Award for her photograph taken in Cambodia, which was put on display at Carnegie Hall June 2. According to the Scholastic Press...

DARE TO DREAM: Nicole Araya ’16’s painting for the Justin Carr Dare to Dream auction shows a surrealist landscape of Antelope Canyon in Arizona. Araya submitted the piece for her portfolio. Printed with permission of Marianne Hall

AP art students push to finish portfolios by May 6 deadline

Tiffany Kim April 30, 2016

As the May 6 national deadline nears, Advanced Placement Studio Art students are working to complete portfolios that will demonstrate their breadth, concentration and quality as artists. While students...

THROUGH THE GLASS: Miles McQueen ’16 and Mady Schapiro ’16 talk about the featured glass sculptures displayed in the Feldman-Horn Gallery. The visual arts department recently bought a glass-blowing furnace that the students have been using. Credit: Sophie Cohen/Chronicle

Art classes use new furnace

Sophie Cohen March 10, 2016

The arts department recently purchased a glassblowing furnace. Using the new furnace, students have the capability to shape and blow molten glass more quickly and with more ease. Previously, artists...

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