Summery Summary

You can feel it in the air as soon as you walk through the door, energies run at a new frequency in the last weeks of the semester. Having the grad show on the horizon brings a multitude of emotions. For fourth years it might be a combination of excitement to break out of the structure of classes, for new environments, for new endeavors, and chilling nervousness for what lies on the outside of the structure that this academy has provided over the last few years. For the staff it might be the long overdue sigh of relief from getting the students to the end of another semester, for a chance to engage in their own work outside of school with one less task on their list for a while. For other students, the end of the semester brings its own versions of this. Tense for collectives, to put themselves and their work into the hands of others after months of hard work, and longing to round things off and spend their days in the sun rather than hours and hours in the print room.

We hope that whatever you are feeling in these last days of the school year, you take a moment to congratulate yourselves for all that you have been through to get to where you are now. Whether that means receiving your degree, setting your work proudly on the wall (or floor or ceiling), or just waking up and starting a new day. It all takes effort and often we don’t recognize or honor that enough. May this coming summer break offer you a plethora of opportunities. Opportunity to rest, to work, to get away, to stay put, to experiment, to spend your time as you like to spend it!

We wish the graduates good luck as they finalize their presentations and take on their practices beyond the school's walls. We thank the teachers for their guidance through our challenges. We sign off for now and see you again in the next issue of CIRCLE.