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Photo credits: 1. Doug Baker ’22 2. Max Halpern ’24 3. Julian Schnitt ’23 4. Andrew Specter ’23 5. AJ Jimeno ’24
We Are Here The highly-transmissible COVID-19 variant, Omicron, left some students at home longer than anticipated following the winter break. With the student body split between campus and their homes and all in quarantine, Forman faculty sought to develop safe weekend activities. Erin Gleason, Art Department Chair, created the Quarantine Photography Challenge, which spanned over three days. The challenge’s theme, We Are Here, encouraged students to find art within their surroundings. The guidelines were simple: capture a photo from their quarantine spaces, such as their pet, a view from a window, or an outdoor scene, all while following the School’s COVID protocols. “We believe that art is a wonderful way to express ourselves and our voices, and [we] wanted to give students an opportunity to do that during quarantine, no matter where 12
they were — in the dorm, an off-campus location, or at home,” says Gleason. “It was a way of bringing us together through photographs when we physically were apart.” Gleason also encouraged students to be creative and take photos from different angles and perspectives. “We hope the students learned that they can create art anywhere and practiced different ways of looking through their photographs,” she says. “The work that was submitted was amazing!” Five students, Doug Baker ’22, Max Halpern ’24, AJ Jimeno ’24, Julian Schnitt ’23, and Andrew Specter ’23, won the challenge with photos from a snow-covered neighborhood to bright rays of sunshine gleaming over waterside homes. The winning students were awarded gift certificates from the school store.
