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CSUN annual show exhibits student art By Eojin Choi
At the school studio, Madeline Lear ’13 clicked away as the bassist “played” a rose as if it were a guitar. After choosing from her many photographs and polishing them on Photoshop, she completed her project for Photography III, which was chosen last week to be featured in an exhibit at the California State University Northridge in their main galleries. Along with Lear’s photograph, 5 other student works were selected to be featured by visual arts teachers Kevin O’Malley, Art Tobias and Dylan Palmer, including a glass sculpture by Maya Broder ’13. “[Working on the piece] was a tedious and meticulous process of cutting glass
and placing them one by one, which took such a long time,” Broder ’13 said. “But I was so proud of it when I finished, and it feels rewarding to have it be featured in CSUN.” Broder’s piece will be part of the 16th Annual High School Art Invitational Exhibition, which features works from 39 schools from Jan. 7 to 26. Pieces by six students, including Anne Liu ’13, Jun Lee ’13, Seana Moon-White ’13 and Xenia Viragh ’15, were selected to be displayed. “This is a terrific community event and we are so grateful to CSUN for their generosity all these years,” O’Malley said. “As for how I feel, I am very proud of my kids. Harvard-Westlake students always contribute real standout work to this exhibition.”
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SING FOR JOY: Covi Brannan ’15, Delilah Napier ’15, Noah Bennett ’15, Autumn Witz ’15, Nick Healy ’13, Teddy Leinbach ’15 Tigist Menkir ’14, Sabrina Batchler ’15 and Marissa Chupack ’13 pose for a group photo after their show at Vista del Sol Care Center.
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Dec. 19, 2012
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CHANGE IN SCENERY: Photos of award-winning artwork by last year’s seniors have been made into banners to decorate a blank wall outside Rugby. New banners will be installed each year.
Banners improve Rugby view
By Jivani Gengatharan
To add some color to the blank wall outside the English classrooms, the Visual Arts Department installed nine banners of artwork created by last year’s Senior Art Award recipients on the wall outside of Rugby. The pieces of art won awards in photography, drawing, video and three-dimensional art. One of the banners features an acrylic painting by Anders Villalta ’12, who won the Excellence in Visual Arts award last spring at the all
school awards assembly. Villata’s painting features the hands of two people reaching out to each other with only a view of the hands and the shoes of the people. The Visual Arts Department had been approached previously to do a mural on the blank wall outside Rugby, but the idea of banners, suggested by one of last year’s senior prefects, David Olodort ’12, was more appealing to the department. “That was a brilliant suggestion,” Department Head Cheri Gaulke said. “We decided as a department that it
Outreach Performers act, sing at care home
By Beatrice Fingerhut
Members of the newlyformed club, Harvard-Westlake Outreach Performers, sang and acted at the Vista del Sol care center, a nursing home in Culver City on Dec. 15. “I’m very excited about the performance and having everyone get to show their talents and entertain the people there,” club founder Tiggy Menkir ’14 said. The ensemble of 13 dancers, actors and singers hold practices on Sundays to prepare for shows that give back to the community. “The people are just so happy to have young people there performing,” faculty advisor Chris Moore said, “One of the things that attracted me to this, was bringing all of the talents that the kids have here to a group of people that don’t
Advanced Dance I will have an encore performance of its yearly outreach showcase tonight for students, teachers and family in the dance studio. Members of the class also held a showcase for ARC, a nonprofit organization that helps individuals with developmental disabilities on Dec. 12. The show’s theme, Outer Space, followed a young boy, played by Nick Healy ’13, who built a space ship and took the audience on an adventure though the atmosphere. The showcase was choreographed solely by the students with minimal involvement from their teacher, Cynthia Winter. The dancers focused on integrating elements such as the sun, the moon and gravity into their choreography. “I think we just wanted to
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get to go out and have that opportunity.” Moore found a short play by Thornton Wilder, “The Happy Journey,” that the group performed. Four individuals also sang and Covi Brannan ’15 and Morganne Ramsey ’14 showcased a slam poem. “I want to have as many different kinds of members with their own various, unique talents, and we can all collaboratively work to produce a great show,” Menkir said. HWOP is planning another show before the end of the semester and to resume the club next year with a bigger cast and more elaborate plays. “It’s just to give some of our actors, singers, dancers and performers another venue to express themselves and have fun performing in front of another type of audience, and also just to give back to the community,” Moore said.
would be a great way to showcase our senior art award recipients.” The award-winning pieces of art, all in different media, were then photographed and transferred into banners. “I don’t really find them a distraction,” Cindy Oh ’13 said. “I love seeing any art that my peers make since they are all pretty talented.” New banners will be made next spring after the new Senior Art Award recipients have been announced. Gaulke said that the plan is to update the banners annually with each year’s awards winners.
Dancers to perform encore to ARC show
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FLY ME TO THE MOON: Mia Ray ’14, Isabelle Lesh ’15 and Imani Cook-Gist ’15 perform a dance about the moon.
do something that the ARC hadn’t seen before,” Sophia Oman ’15 said. “It is very playful and mysterious, so there was a lot of room to create.” Each year, the Advanced Dance I students hold this showcase specifically for ARC. In return, some members of ARC performed in a bell choir for the dancers. Throughout the performance the audience was very involved and vocalized their opinions. “They would yell out ‘Oh so beautiful’ or ‘Wow’ and that just made me feel really good,” Oman said. At the end of the show, the dancers invited the audience on stage to dance with them. “It just makes you realize that many people take what they have for granted, and these people are so amazing despite what they go through.” Mia Ray ’14 “It’s just really rewarding to see.”