More than 60 middle and upper school students were honored for their artistic talent on Monday April 28th at the annual Visual Arts Awards assembly. Students were given awards in the following categories: Middle School Art, Photography, Computer Graphics, 3-Dimensional Art and Design, Ceramics, 2-Dimensional Art and Design, and Yearbook.
More than 60 middle and upper school students were honored for their artistic talent on Monday April 28th at the annual Visual Arts Awards assembly. Students were given awards in the following categories: Middle School Art, Photography, Computer Graphics, 3-Dimensional Art and Design, Ceramics, 2-Dimensional Art and Design, and Yearbook.
Visual Arts department head Lauren Cook and her colleagues Tracey Goodrich, , Hevia Paxson, Gary Wyatt, and Evan Brooke celebrated the quality of the art and design produced by the student artists this year.
Speaking directly to the student body, Cook stated, “We are all born as artists, we are all born as unique creative beings. We can see this in the children in our pre-school program: they jump right in to painting and drawing and don't worry about doing it "right". And as we mature, layers of experience and awareness accrue over our artist selves, shaping who we are and our world view. Our challenge as learners is to keep cultivating our creative and artistic voices as we grow so that they aren’t muted or displaced by other kinds of expression. We all have artists inside ourselves, and sometimes we just need a little help to find them again."
Parent Margie Tommer of the St. Andrew’s Parents’ Association Cultural Arts Committee introduced The Judges’ Choice Awards. These awards honored work that was judged by St. Andrew’s parents who are all active professionals in the fields of visual art, art education, and communications. The judges took the criteria of creativity, personal expression, risk-taking, composition, and technical skill with materials into consideration when making their choices for the best student art of the 2013-2014 school year. The winning artists’ work will be displayed in the school for one year.
The Visual Arts department also recognized the seven art shows – Judges’ Choice Awardees, the Middle School Art Show, the exhibit of Haitian Art, the Digital and Traditional Photography Show, the St. Andrew’s Senior Art Show, the Science By Design Show, and the Spring Arts Celebration - displayed in the school’s Kreeger Gallery throughout the year as well as acknowledged the student art found in St. Andrew’s student literary magazine Creaturae. In addition, Goodrich praised the student ceramicists who helped raise over $1,000.00 for the Haiti Simple Supper by donating over 100 bowls that they had thrown.
The 2014 Judges’ Choice Awardees
Middle School Art 2014 Judges’ Choice Awardees:
Name Grad. Yr.
Hannah Belin 2019
Ashlynn Smith 2019
Katie Olin 2019
Matthew Mardirossian 2018
Benny Anderson 2018
Claire van Stolk 2018
Ciara O’Donoghue 2018
Ciara O’Donoghue 2018
Emily Schissler 2018
Callie Radecki 2018
Roman Toepler 2018
Upper School 3-Dimensional & Ceramic Art 2014 Judges’ Choice Awardees:
Name Grad. Yr.
Mason Horst 2014
Mason Horst 2014
Will Duvall 2014
Will Duvall 2014
Alex Armbruster 2014
Collin Smith 2014
Ella Farago 2014
Jenna Schissler 2017
Michael McDonnell-Diaz 2015
Sari Postal 2016
Upper School Computer Graphics 2014 Judges’ Choice Awardees:
Name Grad. Yr.
Raylene Parkinson 2017
Hope Harrison 2017
Zein Haider 2017
Will Fisher 2017
Lindsey Harris 2017
Hunter Warburton 2014
Austin Kerr 2016
Upper School Photography, 2014 Judges’ Choice Awardees:
Name Grad. Yr.
Emily Stewart 2014
Kendall Kynoch 2016
Abby Kaufman 2016
Meryl Goeke 2015
Emily Broeckaert 2014
Gracie Ashworth 2016
Charlotte Gutierrez 2015
Olivia Deramus 2014
James McLeish 2016
Gabi Gedo 2016
Upper School 2-Dimensional Art 2014 Judges’ Choice Awardees:
Name Grad. Yr.
Louay Youssef 2014
Scotty Matthewman 2015
Megan Vogel 2016
Andrew Davis 2014
Memuna McShane 2015
Memuna McShane 2015
Noa West 2015
Jordan Reilly 2015
Yueqi Sun 2015
Weng Cheong 2014
Eric Magalhaes 2014
Wendy Lazo-Salvador 2014
Calvin Giddings 2017
Molly Smith 2017
Alex Forman 2015
Beverly Howard 2015
Mason Horst 2014
Kristen Butler 2014
Dylan Mitchell 2016
Bobby Radecki 2016
Lily Beuker 2017
Katy Riechers 2016
Aiden Wallace 2016
Bridgette Kontner 2017
Michael O’Shaughnessy 2017
Cat Wagner 2016