FINE ARTS
SUMMER 2013
Fine Arts Falcon Watch
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ach year Houston Press publishes The 100 Creatives which features artists of all genres who live and work in the City of Houston. Current student Ty Doran ’16 and alumna Bevin Bering Dubrowski ’00 were both featured. Ty, a young actor, was the only child to be featured and Bevin, the Executive Director at the Center for Photography, started her career at the Center as a volunteer and worked her way to the top administrative position in less than six years.
US Fine Arts Awards & Accolades Based on their outstanding achievement, Rayan Bekhradi ’14 for sculpture, Sara Jane Gage ’15 for painting, Eva Nip ’14 and Addy Reckling ’14 for photography, Tory Smith ’14 for mixed media and Sydnie Swanson ’14 for ceramics have been selected for the O’Kane Gallery High Art 2013 exhibition. Griffith Greer ’14 and Kendall Taylor ’13 received national recognition in the 2013 Scholastic Art Awards competition. Griffith was awarded a Silver Medal for her photograph entitled The Simple Truth and Kendall received an American Visions Medal for her photograph, Sand Storm. The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston’s Teen Council presented Perspectives 181: Human Nature, a group exhibition featuring work by area teen artists. A short video piece by Eva Nip ’14 was chosen to be one of the 49 works of media. Madi Goeringer ’13 was awarded a $3,000 scholarship at the Theatre Under the Stars Tommy Tune Awards Ceremony in recognition of her involvement and achievement in musical theatre as well as her academic success. Lauren Lloveras ’15 had a mixed media work entitled Family Tree place among the top 10 awards at Culture Shapers this April. Culture Shapers is an art organization dedicated to providing encouragement and financial support through unique visual and performing arts contests for high school students throughout the Greater Houston area. James Mentz ’13 placed second in the 2013 Michael G. Meyers design competition for high school students sponsored by the Houston Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Kinkaid’s Advanced Photography students received Third Place in the 2013 ATPI Top Program. This competition represents a state championship of Texas high school photography and includes entries from both public and private schools.
Lauren Gaw ’06 just filmed a series of videos for NASA that will be shown in the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Lauren says, “It was fun pretending to be in space, but we had to sit on a crazy half bike seat for most of the day. It wasn’t the most comfortable thing in the world, but at least it looked like we were in microgravity!” Last year, Lauren used the skills she learned as a Kinkaid cheerleader while filming Disney’s Zombies and Cheerleaders. Damian Horan ’99 has taken the filmmaking industry by storm. His thesis film, Children of the Air, just finished its festival circuit, and his newest project Candyland, a webseries, features toddlers of the Pacific Palisades in an off-beat, satirical comedy. His bigger budget work these days has been more behind the camera as Director of Photography. He just finished a zombie movie starring Daryl Hannah, Anthony Michael Hall, Alan Ruck and Shirley Jones. Jaynie Saunders Tiller ’97 is the managing director of New Georges, one of New York City’s premiere “downtown” theater companies, a home and a playground for some of the most adventurous theater artists (who are women) working today. Looking back Tiller realizes that her arts management career started at Kinkaid when she became Arts Board president her senior year, “I see now that I’ve always been producing and organizing the world around the art – figuring out how to best support artists and best excite audiences.”
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