Dora Khayatt Art Awards Announced Chair of Visual Arts David Sigel and
Middle School and Upper School art teacher Hilary Hutchison presented the 2015 Dora Khayatt Visual Art Awards on Wednesday, April 29, in the Crawford Campus Center Gallery. Established in 1990, in memory of Dora Khayatt, artist and wife of the late John Plant, former Chairman of EA’s Classic Department, the Dora Khayatt fund provides annual support for student awards for excellence in the fine arts and music. The 2015 Dora Khayatt Visual Art Award Winners: 2-D Category: 1st place: Eunice Ju 2nd place: Samuel Pope 3rd place: Lizzie King 3-D Category: 1st Place: Leigh Lacy 2nd Place: Drew Hopkins 3rd Place: Brooke Baxter Media/Photography Category: 1st Place: Melanie Kovacs 2nd Place: Maggie Mengel 3rd Place: Adelyn Anderson Also, Gianna Smith was awarded EA’s inaugural Film Festival prize for her six-minute short film, “African Drumming and Dancing: An Ever-Evolving Marriage.”
EA’s Performers Dazzle Audiences EA’s talented thespians continued to wow sold out crowds with our spring season productions.
EA’s Middle School Harlequin Club treated its audience to a highly unique interactive and immersive experience through its performance of Alice in Wonderland. Instead of sitting in a theater and watching a performance up on the stage, audience members accompanied Alice on her journey through Wonderland by following Alice from room to room in the Crawford Campus Center.
Pictured from left to right: Drew Hopkins, Adelyn Anderson, Lizzie King, Eunice Ju, Maggie Mengel, Brooke Baxter, Leigh Lacy, Melanie Kovacs, and Samuel Pope.
EA’s Upper School Domino Club invited its audience to the lush green hills of Austria in its impressive performance of The Sound of Music. Emma Smith ’15 played Maria who wins the hearts of seven children and their stern father by introducing them to the wonders of life and the joy of music during the eve of World War II. The audience members couldn’t help but to tap their feet and hum along during EA’s presentation of this Rogers and Hammerstein beloved classic! EA’s 5th Graders treated parents and other students to an exciting performance of Gooney Bird Greene and Her True Life Adventures. As summer ended in the small town of Watertower, the children did not want to be back in school and were already bored. Until, that is, Gooney Bird Greene showed up in her pajamas and cowboy boots!
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