Jefferson County Public Schools
Gold Key Art Winners
2012-13
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JCPS students earn 107 Gold Keys Middle and high school students in the Jefferson County Public School (JCPS) District earned 107 of the 173 Gold Keys awarded in the Louisville Metropolitan Region of the 2013 National Scholastic Art Awards. The contest accepted entries from public, private, parochial, and homeschooled students in Jefferson and the 12 surrounding counties. Students submitted 2,077 individual artworks and portfolios for the 2013 competition. Presented by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, the Scholastic Art Awards Program is the nation’s longest-running and largest visual arts recognition program for teens. Works are judged on three criteria: originality, technical proficiency, and emergence of a personal style or vision. Gold Keys are presented only to works meeting all three criteria, and these works are sent to New York to compete for national Scholastic Art Awards.
Art and Design Teachers Students of the following teachers received Gold Key Awards. Atherton High Colleen Reasor Ballard High Patty Bradford Gary Crume Lindsey Dobson Emily Forrester Darrell Smith Dennis Whitehouse Jim Wight-Waltman Brown School Christi George Butler Traditional High Becky McClinton Central High Patrick Robertson DuPont Manual High Alana Alford Wes Curtis Douglas DeWeese Elizabeth Palmer Julie Tallent Cyndi Young
Eastern High Theresa Anderson Trisha Hamilton-Cooper Stephen Johnson Abbey Smith Fern Creek Traditional High Michael Sturgeon Highland Middle Catherine Hatcher Tammy Podbelsek Jeffersontown High Scot Entrican Louisville Male High Elizabeth Berry Meyzeek Middle Lauren Dahl Noe Middle Samantha Whitaker Pleasure Ridge Park High Denise Webb Cheryl Wilhoit Western Middle Amanda Thompson Natalie Davis
Contents Museum Exhibits Gold Key Art: page 4 Ceramics and Glass: page 6 Student Profile—Claire Dozer (Highland Middle): page 9 Comic Art: page 10 Design: page 11 Digital Art: page 17 Drawing: page 21 Fashion: page 29 Mixed Media: page 32 Painting: page 37 Photography: page 43 Student Profile—William Kolb (Brown School): page 46 Printmaking: page 51 Sculpture: page 56 Art Portfolios: page 63 Student Profile—Irene Mudd (duPont Manual High): page 68 Teacher Profile—Trisha HamiltonCooper (Eastern High): page 79 This digital book was published by the JCPS Communications Department. If you have a question, comment, or suggestion, contact the editor, Thomas Pack. 3
Museum Exhibits Artworks that earned Gold Keys in the Louisville region were displayed from Feb. 15 through Mar. 2 at the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft.
The museum’s description of the exhibit pointed out that the Scholastic Art Awards Program is “the most prestigious recognition program for creative teenage students in grades 7 through 12 around the nation.”
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Gold Key Art
The museum also pointed out that the program “has been credited with identifying early talent in generations of America’s cultural icons, including Truman Capote (1932), Richard Avedon (1941), Andy Warhol (ca. 1945), Sylvia Plath (1947), Robert Redford (1954) and Zac Posen (1998), each of whom won the award when they were in high school.”
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Ceramics and Glass
Domo1 Dominique Armstrong Ballard High 6
Jade Dynasty Zehui Ni DuPont Manual High Zehui also received one of five Fund for the Arts Superlative Awards.
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Ceramics and Glass
Pavone Mary Kate Ford DuPont Manual High
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Student Profile
Liquid Gold, Claire Dozer, Highland Middle Claire Dozer’s first art projects were mud sculptures in her backyard when she was little. Now, she’s a winner of not only a Gold Key but also the 2013 Middle School Artistic Excellence Award (a Best in Show honor) as well as a top award in the National K–12 Ceramic Exhibition (the country’s largest ceramic competition). Claire says she believes art is much more than just something she does in school; it’s “a lifestyle.” “I realized that art is what I really like and what I’m good at,” she says. “Getting to pursue this newfound passion in middle school was the one thing that re-
ally got me into doing art more and more and what made me a better artist.” She says the critiques of her work that she receives from Highland 3D art teacher Tammy Podbelsek push her “to become the artist she knows I can be.” Claire is “creative and diligent with her artwork,” Podbelsek says. “She’s always trying to improve her skills.” Claire needed skill, patience, and perseverance to overcome a few challenges when she was creating Liquid Gold. “Because of the amount of detail, it did take me a while to complete it,” she says. “The clay kept drying
out and pieces of the pot would fall off.” The middle schooler hasn’t decided if she wants to major in art in college, but even if she pursues a career in another field, “art is definitely going to be a part of my life,” she says.
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Comic Art
Robobutts Niki Clark Jeffersontown High 10
Design
Shadowed Sarah Bissmeyer DuPont Manual High
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Design
Chained Makena Devlin DuPont Manual High
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Clare Hagan DuPont Manual High (Two Gold Keys in Design)
Class Clown Collective
The Storyteller This work was selected as one of five American Visions Nominees, a Best of Show honor. Clare also received the Emerging Fiber and Textile Artist Award from the Louisville Area Fiber and Textile Artists Association. 13
Design
Trevor Gibson Pleasure Ridge Park High These images were part of a campaign to fight teen depression. The campaign won the top prize in the Thirteenth Annual High School Marketing Challenge Competition, which was sponsored by the American Advertising Federation–Louisville, Humana, and PNC Bank.
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Snowflake Irene Mudd DuPont Manual High
Ballet Megan Luckett Ballard High 15
Design
Jennifer Bowen Sung DuPont Manual High 16
Digital Art
Screaming Fire Austin Fitzpatrick Ballard High
Transformation of Cranes Jingjing Xiao DuPont Manual High 17
Digital Art
Value Dana Mason DuPont Manual High 18
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All a Dream Andre Scruggs DuPont Manual High
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Digital Art
Scatter Brain Noelle Pouzar DuPont Manual High
Duncan Underhill Eastern High
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Drawing
Hands Yasmin Aden Western Middle
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Drawing
Cheserae Alexander Bizianes Louisville Male High
Anatomy of the Brain Sommer Cade Jeffersontown High 20 22
John Faughender Butler Traditional High (3 Gold Keys in Drawing)
Sensory Overload
Corrupted Youth
Closed Mind 21 23
Drawing
Darius Darius Henderson Pleasure Ridge Park High
European Eagle Owl Simon Maness Atherton High
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Me in a Tree Sunny Podbelsek Highland Middle
You Want Sausage? You Got Sausage Jean Philippe Central High
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Drawing
Reality Mask Emily Sanders Ballard High Dark Thoughts William Schultz Ballard High
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Hands Mariam Shaban Western Middle
To Bee Trapped Jerry Smith DuPont Manual High
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Drawing
I Just Farted Bowen Sung DuPont Manual High
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Fashion
Lazy Sunday, Alecia Beebe, DuPont Manual High 29
Fashion
Raven Work De’sean Isom Pleasure Ridge Park High
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Silver Wear Sara Johnson Highland Middle 31
Mixed Media
My Community Saralee Renick Noe Middle 32
Changes, Julia Mellen, DuPont Manual High
Through the Branches, Sophie Moore, Meyzeek Middle 33
Mixed Media
Watermelon, Victoria Rogers, DuPont Manual High
Nightmare, Irene Mudd, DuPont Manual High 34
The Second Street House Emma Stephens Noe Middle
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Mixed Media
Bond, Amber Kleitz, DuPont Manual High
Run, Jingjing Xiao, DuPont Manual High 36
Painting
Spoon, Sheridan Bishoff, Fern Creek Traditional High
Peter, Jessica Booker, Butler Traditional High 37
Painting
Irene Mudd DuPont Manual High (Three Gold Keys in Painting)
Mary
Wine Nap
See page 68 for a profile of the artist. Self-Portrait with Gustav 30 38
Lonely, Sabrina Harral, Ballard High
Urban Renewal, Lindsey Cummins, Ballard High 39 31
Painting
Awkward Rhys Foster Ballard High
Air Portrait Elijah Cook DuPont Manual High 32 40
Masked Magician Landon Pantoja DuPont Manual High
Kellie Liza Samuel DuPont Manual High
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Painting
Doug James Stone DuPont Manual High
Falling Wyatt Wasz-Piper DuPont Manual High
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Photography Elle Brown, DuPont Manual High (Two Gold Keys)
Flyaway
Silence 43 35
Photography
Shadow, Emma Burch, Ballard High 44
Bearly There, Elizabeth Wilder, Ballard High
In the Wind, Bradley Sutherland, Pleasure Ridge Park High 45
Student Profile
William Kolb Brown School (Six Gold Keys)
School Spirit
“With his camera permanently attached to his side, William is always looking for moments of expression,” says Brown School art and photography teacher Christi George.
Photo of William by Alice Meredith Stevenson
“Whether it’s a storm’s light filtering in through an open window or a slice of what life is like inside a second-grade classroom, William is always eagerly searching for the moments that capture the relationships between all things in the world that surrounds him,” George says.
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William received more Gold Keys for individual works than any other student in the Louisville Metropolitan Region of the 2013 National Scholastic Art Awards. He also earned many Silver Keys and Honorable Mentions as well as the Louisville Visual Art Association’s Emerging Artist Award and the John Botto Award—a Best of Show award. (Botto was an artist who left an endowment to the Old Louisville Public School System in the 1930s.) “I always enjoyed and valued art but was never keen to make my own until I discovered photography,” William says. “In middle
school, I started taking photos with my grandma’s digital SLR [single-lens reflex] cameras and loved how I could capture the world to share the way I see it. This quickly turned into a passion for the medium.” At the Brown School, William has learned everything from basic darkroom and analog processes to print and gallery preparation. He says George’s critiques have helped him “send my finest work to all the right places.” The most difficult part of submitting photos to contests is “detaching myself from my work,” he says. “I heard National Geographic photographer Sam Abell speak at a conference earlier this year and he said, ‘You can never be married to your work.’ Choosing which photos to enter helped me realize the importance of Abell’s words. Just because I’m emotionally partial to a photograph doesn’t mean the judges feel the same way.” William says his work is influenced by the photography of his grandmother, Robyn Reinhart, as well as such classic documentary photographers as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Mary Ellen Mark, Dorothea Lange, and Steve McCurry.
Evening Studio
Before the Storm
He follows today’s photojournalists on Flickr, Instagram, and Facebook. William plans to study photojournalism at Western Kentucky University this fall and ultimately hopes to be “a documentary photographer or multimedia journalist working for a newspaper, magazine, or other print or online publication. I also look forward to continuing my portrait photography business and eventually photographing weddings as well.”
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Photography
Burned House, Alana Keith, Eastern High
Flashlight, Harrison Hill, DuPont Manual High 48
Dream of Flying, Noelle Pouzar, DuPont Manual High
Shrouded, Helen Lu, DuPont Manual High 49
Photography
Table Still Life Monique Hamilton Pleasure Ridge Park High
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Printmaking
Habits Andre Scruggs DuPont Manual High
Doughnuts Emilee Sheldon DuPont Manual High 51
Printmaking
Liza Samuel
DuPont Manual High (Two Gold Keys in Printmaking) Swarm
Bird
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Stay Clean Alecia Beebe DuPont Manual High
Flashback Amanda Riddle Ballard High 53
Printmaking
Nate Sophi Des Jardins DuPont Manual High
Prints of Poe Sarah Linder Eastern High 54
Brighter Charlena Vaughn DuPont Manual High
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Sculpture
Minotaur Man Victoria Ciarlante Ballard High 56
Orville Wyatt Wasz-Piper DuPont Manual High This work was selected as one of five American Visions Nominees, a Best of Show honor. Wyatt also received one of five Fund for the Arts Superlative Awards.
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Sculpture
Grapevine Horse Emma Collins DuPont Manual High
Reach Madison Lindsay DuPont Manual High
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Shadow of Louisville Skyline Molly Harp Highland Middle 59
Sculpture
Disgust Allison Masyada Ballard High
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Old Piece, Gold Piece Mary Cundiff Highland Middle
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Sculpture
Fly Away, Callie Wright, Highland Middle
A Bad Dream, Kourtney Duncan, Highland Middle 62
Art Portfolios Alexander Bizianes Louisville Male High
Three of the eight works in each portfolio are shown in this book. 63
Art Portfolios
Lindsey Cummins Ballard High
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Elijah Cook
DuPont Manual High
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Art Portfolios
Issac Logsdon
DuPont Manual High (Two Gold Keys for Portfolios)
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Student Profile
Irene Mudd
DuPont Manual High “Irene Mudd is one of the most innovative students I’ve ever taught,” says Manual art teacher Doug DeWeese. “She truly thinks about her work, what it means, and how it is interpreted by others. “This outlook, along with her incredible work habits and passion for art, has enabled her to truly become an important emerging artist whom, I believe, will have a long and exciting career involving art.” Besides a Gold Key for her portfolio, Irene earned five Gold Keys for individual works. (See pages 15, 34, and 38.) She also earned two Silver Keys and two Honorable Mentions, and she received one of five Emerging Artist Awards from the Louisville Visual Art Association. Irene says she first became interested in art when she was very young because “being able to create things on paper that didn’t exist in the real world was a kind of magic to me.” Her teachers at Manual have not only taught her technical skills but also helped her understand conceptual issues and develop a unique style, she says. They also have taught her how to discuss her work in a way that helps her overcome challenges. “I always struggle a bit with finding interesting compositions as well as finding sophisticated manners to express symbolism or an abstract idea in my work—as in not 68
being too pretentious or literal,” she says. “However, I would say the biggest obstacle I have with all my work is self-doubt. I second-guess my choices all the time, but it takes not thinking and just making to get over that.” Her influences and favorite artists include Jenny Saville, Lucian Freud, Egon Schiele, Cayce Zavaglia, Louise Riley, Swoon, and Gustav Klimt. Irene plans to major in art in college, but at this writing, she’s not sure where because she’s waiting for responses to scholarship applications. She ultimately plans to make a career in art. “It’s hard to imagine doing anything else,” she says, “but I honestly have no idea what specific job I’d want. “I’ve considered being a designer, getting into film, working in a gallery, or being an illustrator or art teacher. At this point I think I would be content doing anything that utilizes my creative and artistic skills and makes me a living.”
A visitor at the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft takes a photo of one of Irene’s paintings.
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Art Portfolios
Wyatt Wasz-Piper DuPont Manual High
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Amber Kleitz
DuPont Manual High
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Art Portfolios
Elizabeth Wilder
Ballard High
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Victoria Rogers
DuPont Manual High
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Art Portfolios
Liza Samuel
DuPont Manual High
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Andre Scruggs
DuPont Manual High Andre also received one of five Fund for the Arts Superlative Awards as well as one of five Louisville Visual Art Association Emerging Artist Awards.
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Art Portfolios
Jerry Smith
DuPont Manual High
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James Stone
DuPont Manual High
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Art Portfolios
Tyler Murphy Eastern High
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Teacher Profile
Trisha HamiltonCooper Eastern High Students Jessica Embry and Tyler Murphy helped present the ExCEL Award to Mrs. HamiltonCooper.
Trisha Hamilton-Cooper’s students earn many Gold and Silver Keys every year. For the past three years, they also have been national winners in the Vans Custom Culture Shoe Design Contest and have received trips to Los Angeles and New York City for the final judging. Hamilton-Cooper joined the staff at Eastern in 2000 and now teaches a range of classes, including paint-
ing, drawing, photography, sculpture, the business of art, and Advanced Placement (AP) Studio Art, 2-D Design, 3-D Design, and Drawing/Painting. “I’m blessed to watch talented and hardworking students become the individuals they are meant to be,” Hamilton-Cooper says. “I’m constantly inspired by their creativity and determination. My students have lived up to their potential by becoming successful art teachers, photographers, directors, and product designers, but more importantly, they give back to the community and encourage my current students.”
Hamilton-Cooper’s Ballet Rebellion was featured in the book Capturing Kentuckiana. You can see more of her work on her Web site.
The students have painted murals for the Muhammad Ali Center, and they collaborated on a
mural that will be displayed in Washington, D.C., as part of Project S.N.A.P., which creates large mosaics from many individual artworks. Hamilton-Cooper holds a bachelor’s degree in secondary education and a bachelor’s in fine arts with an emphasis in painting from Bellarmine University. She earned a master’s in fine arts with an emphasis in painting at the University of Louisville (UofL). She sponsors Eastern’s Art and Photography Club and has served as cross-country and track coach and even as sponsor of the Eastern Skateboard Team. From 2000 to 2004, she was involved in an artistic exchange between Louisville and Leeds, England, for the Breeze International Festival. She has received ten Scholastic Art Teacher Awards since 2000, and she received a UofL Art Scholarship in 2006. She is a recent recipient of the WHAS11 ExCEL (Excellence in Classroom and Educational Leadership) Award. 79
The Art of Education
JCPS schools offer visual art courses at all grade levels. Many schools even offer a visual art magnet program. • At Pleasure Ridge Park, Fern Creek Traditional, and Ballard High Schools, visual art courses are available in the Communication, Media, and the Arts Professional Career Theme Program. • At DuPont Manual High, students in the Visual Arts Magnet Program use 11 professionally equipped studios for drawing, painting, computer graphics, ceramics, sculpture, architectural design, textiles/fiber art, and photography. • At Noe Middle, students can apply to the Visual and Performing Arts Magnet Program. Western Middle is a Visual and Performing Arts Magnet School. Highland Middle offers the Fine Arts Optional Program. • At Rutherford and Price Elementary Schools, students can apply to the Visual Arts Magnet Program. King Elementary offers the Visual and Performing Arts Magnet Program.