arts on the hill

Sean Horkan ’24 glazing a mug made on the pottery wheel.

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1. Kites • Jake McManus ’24 • Ben Hack ’24 • Declan Reilly ’24 • Lucca Micciche’24 • Connor Mackey ’24 • Noah Farb ’24 • Daniel Xie ’24 • Max Glick ’24 • Lev Tolkoff ’24

2. Bowl by Jacob Gregor ’23. 3. Wooden Toboggan by Jackson

Pagan ’24 and Alex Behn ’24 in Conceptual Physics. 4. Students watch a trash can firing in Ceramics class. The practice is similar to traditional pit firing resulting in flashes of earth-like tones of color.

5. This year the students in

Woodworking classes worked to make the Asanoha pattern in their Kumiko lantern. This project was developed in response to the pandemic so that the techniques required to make the Kumiko panels could be completed at home with very simple hand tools, if needed. Luckily, all of the work was completed in the shop. 6. Ethan Xie ’26 works on his wire guy hero sculpture in

Form I Art.

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1. B-Flats: • Liam Horkan ’22 • Gabriel Klug ’22 • Daniel Rashes ’22 • Kailen Richards ’22 • Matthew Travaglini ’22 • Ryan Cannistraro ’21 • Jacob Czarnecki ’22 • Mr. Patterson

2. Middle School Jazz: • Daniel Xie ’24, tenor saxophone • David Luo ’25, trumpet • Carson Yoo ’26, trumpet • Brandon Li ’26, alto saxophone • Derrick Huang ’26, alto saxophone • Brady Paquette ’25, alto saxophone • Ethan Xie ’26, alto saxophone • Justin Li ’26, piano • John Pena ’26, bass guitar • Jackson Rich ’25, drums

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4. Upper School Jazz: • David Carter ’22, trumpet • Andrew Bittner ’24, trumpet • Daniel Bittner ’22, trumpet • Samuel Freed ’21, guitar • Alexander Behn ’24, trombone • Thomas Cannistraro ’24, bass guitar • Charles Geddes ’22, alto saxophone • William Lloyd ’23, tenor saxophone • Quinn Peck ’21, drums • Cameron Connell ’23, piano

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3. Orchestra: • Aleksander Vasu ’22, guitar • Julian Dalziel ’21, viola • Cotter Healey ’26, violin • Davin Roy ’24, violin • Jayden Lotin ’26, violin • Abraham Tolkoff ’21, clarinet • Kevin Jiang ’22, clarinet • Adrian Tan ’25, piano • Howard Huang ’22, violin • Matthew Torrey ’23, violin • Wesley Zhu ’25, violin • Arec Keomurjian ’22, piano • Yareh Constant ’25, bass • Timothée Simonin ’22, cello • Benjamin Gong ’26, cello • Theodore Stoll ’21, cello • Ms. Ahearne, cello • Jaiden Lee ’26, cello • Brian Lee ’24, cello

Music group captions are from left to right, top to bottom.

Photography: Abraham Tolkoff ’21

For my Contemporary Literature class with Dr. Tift, we read On Beauty by Zadie Smith. The narrative is set in a fictionalized Boston area with specific landmarks and locations mentioned throughout the novel. Dr. Tift opened up our assignment criteria, and I decided to use my photography knowledge to document various locations around Boston, Cambridge, and Wellesley to mimic places mentioned in the story.

I began shooting with a 4x5 film camera equipped with a box of black-and-white film, a few lessons on the basic operations of the camera, and an omniscient book. After days of making pictures, developing my film, and scanning, I began to appreciate how the story materialized in my work. I opened my written response that accompanied the two dozen images with a quote from famed photographer Ansel Adams. He said, “When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.” Later, I spun this concept in my own way while reflecting on the overall process. “Just as each of the characters was changed by their lives in the story, we readers experienced the transformation from the first to the final words. There is something, too, about shooting photos in black-and-white, like the words and pages of a book. The challenge of coaxing depth and color from tones of gray mimics that of developing detail and imagery from words and phrases.”

While the assignment meshed nicely with my ongoing Independent Study in Photography with Mr. Duarte, I appreciated the interdisciplinary nature of the work and look forward to a similar exercise with future books and projects.

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Despite the challenges of this year, the theatre program has forged ahead by both directing our actors in individual monologues and group projects and offering weekly workshops in each of the following areas: directing, acting, playwriting, technical theatre and lighting, set design, and voice acting. We’ve invested in new equipment for filming and editing, including new cameras, lenses, and green screens to offer our students an array of options for their projects. Finally, we’re committed to bringing student-created work to life, meeting with our group project’s actors, writers, and designers each week as they write, develop, stage, film, edit, and produce their own films this year!

1. Will Achtmeyer ’26 writing an original screenplay in the house of the Kraft Theater.

2. Three students playing the improv game “Sit, Stand, Kneel” (from left: Joshua Houston-Davis ’23, TJ Cannistraro ’24, and Jerry Austen ’24).

3. A rousing game of “Zip, Zap, Zop” with custom rules (from left: Mr. DiResta, Boston Ezedi ’26, Jerry Austen ’24,

Joshua Houston-Davis ’23, and TJ Cannistraro ’24).

4. Mr. Conway filming Jeremy Eaton ’23 outside of Robsham.

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