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The Harvard-Westlake Chronicle

YoungArts recognizes 10 artists

Madi Massey December 1, 2018

The National YoungArts Foundation recognized eleven students from the school as finalists, honorable mentions and merit winners in its 2019 competition. The winners represented various different categories...

Garcia joins communications and visual arts departments

Caitlin Chung September 14, 2018

Alexandra Pacheco Garcia joined the communications and visual arts departments this year as the new Vox Populi advisor and a photography teacher, respectively. Previously, Garcia worked as a project...

Stahl to teach in visual arts department

Tanisha Gunby September 13, 2018

New teacher Nicole Stahl teaches ceramics, sculpture and glass classes in the visual arts department. Before becoming a teacher, she assisted artists creating their own work. Most recently Stahl was an...

Students in the Visual Arts classes watch an exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art on Jan. 6. Printed with permission of India Brittenham.

Filmmakers dive into MOCA

Angela Tan January 11, 2017

Students of the Video Art I, II and III classes visited The Geffen Contemporary building at The Museum of Contemporary Art to visit artist Doug Aitken’s “Electric Earth” exhibit Jan. 6. The exhibit...

Seniors to exhibit art in gallery

Sophie Cohen May 30, 2016

Graduating seniors will present their artwork to students, parents and faculty at the Senior Art Show Tuesday in the Feldman-Horn Gallery from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. The exhibit will be “salon-style,” covering...

Students to travel to Guatemala

Jordan Bedikian May 28, 2016

Students have the opportunity to participate in the HW GO! Digital Storytelling trip to Guatemala this summer Aug. 1-19. Participants will develop documentary filmmaking and editing skills by interviewing...

Video art teachers conduct interviews with 10 juniors for next year’s film festival directors

Danielle Spitz May 27, 2016

Video art teachers conducted interviews May 18 to select next year’s senior film festival directors, who will be announced this week. Ten juniors applied for the position. “We’re looking for people...

The four glass pieces, which were not based on a singular idea, took about a month to make.

Visual arts teacher exhibits four sculptures at the Belgian National Glass Museum

Claire Keller May 26, 2016

The Belgium National Glass Museum in Lommel will display the glass artwork of visual arts teacher Dylan Palmer until Sept. 4 in an exhibit that opened Mar. 26. A group of curators contacted Palmer,...

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...

LENDING A HELPING SHOULDER: James Kanoff ’17 leans on Chance Washburn ’18 in order to capture a picture of the sunset in Vietnam. Students traveled there for over a week to work on digital media projects independently and in groups. Credit: Lauren Kim/Chronicle

Learning Through the Lens: Students journey to Vietnam

Jean Sanders February 10, 2016

When Kinly McCaffery ’18 saw a wall filled with photos of bombing victims of the Vietnam War at the War Remnants Museum in Saigon, she realized that any one of those victims could easily have been her...

Gaulke wins CCF Fellowship for Visual Arts

Ellis Becker September 4, 2015

Upper School Visual Arts Head Cheri Gaulke won the California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Arts award for a successful career in performance art. The award, funded by the CCF, has provided...

Sell-out crowd sees bookstore associate’s original play

Sammi Handler November 17, 2014

A play written by bookstore associate Allie Costa, “Femme Noir,” was performed at the Miles Memorial Playhouse in Santa Monica Nov. 6 – 8 and all four performances were sold-out. Costa’s play,...

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