ART, MEDIA & DESIGN LOOKBOOK PRE-COLLEGE SUMMER INSTITUTE 2019
University of the Arts Pre-College Summer Institute 2019 Art, Media & Design LookBook The Pre-College Art, Media and Design Summer Institute is a dynamic and challenging program for highly driven high school students. This summer, students gained solid foundational skills and college-level art and design training while working with the university’s expert faculty. This book documents the focus, creativity and initiative of these students, showcasing how they were inspired to think like artists and designers—with imagination, insight and fiercely individual vision. Their efforts follow here.
ROSI DISPENSA, DIRECTOR Pre-College Programs University of the Arts
MFA ‘11 University of the Arts, Art Education BFA ‘04 University of the Arts, Photography uarts.edu/summerinstitute 3
Artists 06 Madeleine Agudelo
43 Priscilla Kutsukos
07 Ruben Aguilar
44 Mercy Lindell
08 Victoria Albanese
45 Samantha Nicole Lopez
09 Gabrielle Allen
46 Lamia Lopez
10 Deirdre Bailey
47 JoLynn Low
11 Tahjmier Baker
48 Kaylei Marquez
12 Minh Bauch
49 Mario Martinez Ignacio
13 Inez Campisi
50 Sean Matthews
14 Duncan Carlson
51 Stacey Mejia
15 Gretchen Cassell
52 Josephine Meyer
16 Abigail Chang
53 Adam Moncrief
17 Jakob Chang
54 Sakshi Nemlekar
18 Sophia Coleman
55 Lillian Ohr
19 Charlotte de Greling
56 Yve Okonsky
20 Anthony De Lapi
57 Jacob Ortiz-Strauss
21 Ryan Dever
58 Oona Pierre
22 Addison DeWitt
59 Nikolas Porter
23 Damien Dos Santos
60 Madison Red
24 Isabella Eckert
61 Raenya Rogers
25 Shayla Ellis
62 Micah Schmerling
26 Morgan Equi
63 Havilynn Scruggs
27 August Fernandez
64 Grace Shoemaker
28 Muhammad Gallashaw
65 Cassandra Siniscalco
29 Logan Garcia
66 Emmanuel Smith
30 Izzy Gibson
67 Bryan Smith-McCarty
31 Jillian Godfrey
68 Azeemah Solomon
32 Mishal Goldstein
69 Sarah Solomon
33 Tomas Gray
70 Michael Staniz
34 Jessica Griffin
71 Amani Starks
35 Lucce Guido
72 Annabelle Sun
36 Paige Harner
73 Kasey Taffe
37 Nichole Hernandez
74 Lee Tew
38 Cameron Howe
75 Ariana Velasquez
39 Onenasit Alex Inchote
76 Daniela Velasquez
40 Meghan Ingersoll
77 Bennett Vradelis
41 Lindsay Kaplan
78 Julianna Williams
42 Katie Kelly
79 Lily Wise 5
Madeleine Agudelo PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL Photography B&W Darkroom Photography Street Photography
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Madeleine Agudelo (b. 2004) is a photographer born and raised in Philadelphia. She is currently a rising sophomore at Central High School in Philadelphia. After high school, she hopes to attend a university and become a lawyer in addition to making her art. Agudelo’s artwork consists of photographs of a variety of different subject matters, many cityscapes and natural elements. She explores different compositions, depths of field and colors with her photography.
Ruben Aguilar PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA HOLY GHOST PREPARATORY SCHOOL Oil Painting Advanced Drawing Sketchbooks: Experiments & Field Notes
Ruben Aguilar is an artist based in Philadelphia. Born on September 26, 2003, and raised in Northeast Philly, he currently attends Holy Ghost Preparatory School and he is very focused on his academic achievement. The medium he mainly uses is paper and pencil, and prefers to draw from life. He is well-known for his landscape scenery drawings and also his portraits of friends and family. He usually only does the linework because he is still in the process of learning newer media. Furthermore, he has been limited to graphite and paper for most of his life, and is always willing to expand his horizons.
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Victoria Albanese ASTON, PENNSYLVANIA SUN VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL Animation Character Development Figure Drawing
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Victoria Albanese, born 2002 in Wilmington, Delaware, is focused on filling her life with art. Her art spans many media but all focuses usually on the topic of mental illness, and takes you on a journey through the mind of the mentally ill. The majority of her art is based around that subject matter in a surrealist style fantasy world, branching off into realism occasionally. Her piece “small town,� done in colored ink, shows a small strip of building focused mainly around the architecture. Her art is truly a unique take on the human mind.
Gabrielle Allen READING, PENNSYLVANIA HOMESCHOOLED Photography B&W Darkroom Photography Screenprinting
Gabrielle Allen (b. 2002) is a photographer born and raised in Reading, Pennsylvania. She has been homeschooled for the last 11 years, which has given her many unique opportunities. She first discovered photography when she was 13 and has actively pursued it for the last two. The majority of her work is close up and macro photography. Her focus is on the finer details and whimsy in our world, and she likes to isolate a single subject in her photos. Allen is also an active member of the Berks Photographic Society and often participates in their photography competitions.
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Deirdre Bailey PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA LITTLE FLOWER CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS Illustration Character Development Figure Drawing
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Deirdre Bailey is an illustrator from Philadelphia. She is 17 years old and attends Little Flower Catholic High School for Girls. Deirdre has been creating content from a very young age and continues to do so—the content ranging from cartoons to figure drawing. Her interests fall under illustrations and comics, and she hopes to pursue a career in illustration when she’s older. She mostly uses ink and markers on multi-medium paper—however, she does digital work as well. Deirdre is constantly pushing herself to try new things and to experiment in her sketchbooks.
Tahjmier Baker PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA THE U SCHOOL Digital Filmmaking Advanced Drawing Drawing
Tahjmier Baker was born on July 29, 2002, and raised in the city of brotherly love— Philadelphia. He attends the U School, an alternative school at 7th and Norris Streets, and has a passion for creating art. He specializes in comic book character drawing, either classic or new characters related to his work writing graphic novels. He mostly draws with a basic pencil, or occasionally with pen and ink. His process is to work quickly and to let the drawing evolve through the process. The times when he doesn’t plan on drawing something specific it turns out better than if it had been planned. His process is to work intuitively, and not overthink. Baker has shown his work at the Mural Arts Gallery in Philadelphia.
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Minh Bauch MOUNTAIN TOP, PENNSYLVANIA CRESTWOOD HIGH SCHOOL Graphic Design Advanced Drawing Figure Drawing
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Minh Bauch was born on July 21, 2002, in San Antonio. She goes to school at Crestwood High School in the small town of Mountain Top, PA. Her art usually portrays animals or people, but she has done some landscape pieces. Sometimes her artwork illustrates people from her life, like her close friends, family or pets. The majority of her art uses realism and is made using either pastels or graphite. Her artwork doesn’t have any hidden meaning to it and usually just portrays something that she has an emotional attachment to in her personal life.
Inez Campisi TIVOLI, NEW YORK RED HOOK CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL Oil Painting Alternative Painting Film Criticism
Inez Campisi is a 16-year-old born May 27, 2003. She was born and raised in the Hudson Valley in New York but also lived in Florence, Italy, for a short time. She currently attends Red Hook Central High School in New York. Campisi focuses mainly on fine arts, specifically painting. She is especially interested in painting irrational fears. In her art, she works to capture these fears through the distortion and manipulation of colors. Campisi is most passionate about art conservation, restoration and sustainability.
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Duncan Carlson LANDSDOWNE, PENNSYLVANIA HAVERFORD HIGH SCHOOL Animation Digital Effects for Film & Animation Visual Storytelling
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Duncan was born in Columbia, Connecticut on March 13, 2003. He goes to school at Haverford High School in Havertown, Pennsylvania. Some of the art he creates is influenced by his favorite book, The Necronomicon. Reading of unknowable horrors from beyond time and realization gives him inspiration to draw things that are very strange in most forms of the word. He also draws inspiration from D&D and the strange creatures in it. Carlson’s goal is to portray silly or insane creatures in drawings and animations. His drawings rely heavily on texture while his animations are more loose.
Gretchen Cassell FAIRLESS HILLS, PENNSYLVANIA PENNSBURY HIGH SCHOOL Illustration Character Development Sketchbooks: Experiments & Field Notes
Gretchen Cassell born on July 24th, 2002, in Philadelphia. She lives in Fairless Hills, PA, and is currently a rising senior at Pennsbury High School. Gretchen’s art is an expression of emotions that she would otherwise be unable to share. She also uses her illustrations as a way to capture moments of her life, whether happy or sad (although mostly sad). While some pieces are directly taken from specific occasions, some are her own adaptations of how she’s feeling. Her most used medium is just a pencil, but the majority of her finishes are black and white with some reds. Gretchen uses her illustrations as not only a way to comfort herself, but also to possibly comfort others viewing it who could’ve experienced similar feelings or events.
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Abigail Chang BALA CYNWYD, PENNSYLVANIA LOWER MERION HIGH SCHOOL Animation Creative Writing Visual Storytelling
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Abigail Chang is an incoming sophomore at Lower Merion High School, as well as an aspiring artist and animator. She was born in raised in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia, where her artistic journey began in her middle school years. The recent drawings that Abigail has created at UArts are prominently based on emotion, tone and expressing how these elements come into play with daily life. Primarily using inks and sometimes watercolor, these drawings depict tasks and events that are relatable to a broad audience and are meant to provide a reflection of the artist’s own emotions onto the viewer.
Jakob Chang BALA CYNWYD, PENNSYLVANIA LOWER MERION HIGH SCHOOL Illustration Character Development Figure Drawing
Jakob was born on August 8th in Downtown Philadelphia. Jakob currently attends Lower Merion High School as a rising senior, is from Bala Cynwyd and attended the Rhode Island School of Design program last year. Jakob is an aspiring comic book artist/cartoonist whose current art is about personal history and societal matters. Jakob’s current project is a graphic novel about Korean children in the World War I and II eras who band together and combat their foreign oppressors.
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Sophia Coleman PORTLAND, OREGON DAVID DOUGLAS HIGH SCHOOL Illustration Character Development Film Criticism
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Sophia Coleman was born in Portland, Oregon, in June of 2002. She currently attends David Douglas High School in East Portland. Outside of making art, she enjoys hiking, drinking tea on rainy days and hanging out with her cats. She has shown her work in many student shows over the past four years and at local community colleges. Coleman won two honorable mentions in the 2019 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, along with placing first at the 2018 Oregon State Fair Student Calligraphy Competition. Her artwork is about her struggle with mental health, as well as her love of fantasy.
Charlotte de Greling PALM BEACH GARDENS, FLORIDA A.W. DREYFOOS SCHOOL OF THE ARTS Illustration Advanced Drawing Screenprinting
Charlotte de Greling, born in October 2001, is an American artist who lives and works in Palm Beach, Florida. She will graduate in 2020 from A.W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts in West Palm Beach, and has recently participated in an exhibition hosted by the YoungArts Foundation in Miami. Charlotte’s recent works are screen prints and paintings created by layering gouache and then colored pencil, focusing on illustrated narrative and character design. The bright nature of the materials and stylization appeal to a youthful audience and help establish the lighthearted mood for many of the works, while downplaying the more unsettling elements of her subject matter.
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Anthony De Lapi WEST BABYLON, NEW YORK BABYLON HIGH SCHOOL Animation Character Development Visual Storytelling
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Anthony De Lapi was born on Sept. 5, 2002, and grew up in Babylon, Long Island, NY. He goes to Babylon Junior Senior High School and will graduate in 2020. His artwork is about designs for characters, worlds and stories. His artwork is mostly done in a sketchbook using pencils and taking notes on the side. De Lapi usually looks to outside sources to help him draw, such as literature, history, or even daily events and lessons in life. The concept of his artwork is to try to tell a plot and themed story based on his drawings and ideas.
Ryan Dever NEWTOWN SQUARE, PENNSYLVANIA MARPLE NEWTOWN HIGH SCHOOL Graphic Design Woodworking Drawing
Born in Delaware County in 2001, Ryan attends school at Marple Newtown High School. His art is initiated by urges he has to just create something. He is always questioning and wondering about pretty much everything. Most of the time there is no rhyme or reason for what he makes other than to entice viewers to form their own reasons for why he may have made that particular piece. Dever makes digital and physical art using paper and pen, making mainly abstract and surreal art.
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Addison DeWitt RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA LONGLEAF SCHOOL OF THE ARTS Graphic Design Alternative Painting Figure Drawing
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Addison DeWitt was born on July 26, 2002, in Greensboro, North Carolina. He was born to Jamie and Martin DeWitt. While he has moved many times in the 17 years he’s been alive, his family and current home are in Raleigh, North Carolina. DeWitt currently attends Longleaf School of the Arts—a charter school with a focus on the arts.
Damien Dos Santos PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA SCIENCE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY Animation Character Development Figure Drawing
Damien was born in New York City and is from Philadelphia. Damien goes to SLA at Beeber, which is located in West Philadelphia. His art is about his inspirations and the things that made him who he is today. To him, his art is an extension of himself. Most of his art is made with pencil and ink. The concept of his art is just to make likeable figures or designs that people could relate to, as well as sending a message through his unique style.
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Isabella Eckert SARASOTA, FLORIDA BOOKER HIGH SCHOOL Photography Woodworking Screenprinting
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Isabella (Izzy) Eckert is a 17-year-old artist studying photography, woodworking and screenprinting. Izzy has lived in Sarasota her entire life and attends Booker High School while dual enrolling at State College of Florida. Technically going into her senior year of high school and sophomore year of community college, she plans on graduating at the end of this year with her A.A. Eckert’s work has mainly been shown in school galleries and passed around by friends and family.
Shayla Ellis MORTON, PENNSYLVANIA SPRINGFIELD HIGH SCHOOL Photography Character Development Drawing
Shayla Ellis was born on March 5, 2002. Although throughout her childhood she had moved multiple times, she is now able to call the small town of Springfield, Pennsylvania her home, where she attends Springfield High School as a rising senior. Shayla personally has two seperate thought processes pertaining to her two differing media: photography and illustration. When it comes to photography, Shayla enjoys pivoting to a new perspective in life as she documents her exploration of the world. Whereas when it comes to illustration, she enjoys displaying different parts of the world of creativity that reside in her mind.
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Morgan Equi JENKINTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA ABINGTON HIGH SCHOOL Animation Digital Effects for Film & Animation Figure Drawing
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Morgan Equi is an American artist born on the 25th of July, 2003. She was born and raised in Abington a suburb of Philadelphia. She currently attends the cyber program offered through the Abington Senior High School called Abington Cyber Education, or Ace. Her artwork is composed mostly of sketches and illustrations, focusing on telling a character’s story and background in a single drawing, although she has recently begun experimenting in the field of animation. One of her most loved works is the final project created at University of the Arts’ Summer Program called Ant Vs. Boulder. In this short 10-second film, she covers the theme of overcoming obstacles despite adversity.
August Fernandez MIAMI, FLORIDA DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL Graphic Design Creative Writing Screenprinting
The artist, August Fernandez, was born Oct. 25, 2001. He was born into a Cuban family from Miami. As a rising senior, he is studying film and fine arts at Design and Architecture Senior High. His artwork consists of a variety of styles ranging from abstract to traditional, fine art paintings. August produces typically small canvas pieces with interesting line designs. He explores his view of the self, relationships he has with others, and the concept of time and memories in his art. He also experiments with character design and graphic design.
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Muhammad Gallashaw PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY AT PALUMBO Digital Filmmaking B&W Darkroom Photography Film Criticism
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Muhammad Gallashaw is a 17-year-old artist from West Philadelphia, and an 11th grader at the Academy at Palumbo High School in South Philadelphia. He has plans to pursue a career in filmmaking in the future. When Gallashaw first started making art, he focused mainly on painting and drawing before moving on to the study of photography, using both traditional film and digital processes. His work focuses on documenting spaces in ways that aren’t usually seen. He also uses writing to create stories about places that people don’t usually pay much attention to.
Logan Garcia PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA LITTLE FLOWER CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS Graphic Design Alternative Painting Sketchbooks: Experiments & Field Notes
Logan Garcia is a 17-year-old female illustrator and graphic designer from Philadelphia. Born in 2002, she is currently attending Little Flower High School and plans to attend University of the Arts in the fall of 2020 as her ideal college. She enjoys lowbrow art, digital art and body modification. The artist’s typical media are acrylic paint and digital drawing programs. Garcia has a history of traditional illustration and seeks to illustrate and animate despite her current Pre-College major of graphic design. The artist does not enjoy graphic design as much as illustrating and does not plan to pursue a graphic design career.
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Izzy Gibson PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA FRIENDS CENTRAL SCHOOL Digital Filmmaking Creative Writing Writing for Comics
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Izzy Gibson was born on Jan. 14, 2002, in Philadelphia. He has experimented and explored different artistic media of expression for several years, hoping to discover those in which he feels most comfortable. Upon entering into his senior year at Friends Central School, he has settled into his strengths; creative writing and music production. Gibson doesn’t consider himself to lean towards one over the other, and instead, sets tones to his writing with his music, and encapsulates his imagined stories within words. He plans to continue his path as a storyteller far into the future, eventually hoping to explore through more than just his writing, and work with other artists to create comics and animations.
Jillian Godfrey PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA AIM ACADEMY Photography B&W Darkroom Photography Writing for Comics
Photographer Jillian Godfrey was born in August of 2002. She was adopted from Guatemala and brought to the United States, where she currently resides. She grew up along the outskirts of Philadelphia, in a cozy neighborhood. Jillian has been attending a school called AIM Academy for 10 years and will be entering her senior year this fall 2019. She first discovered her love of photography during middle school and has been practicing ever since. Every year, her art is displayed in her school’s literary magazine, The Moon.
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Mishal Goldstein MOORESTOWN, NEW JERSEY MOORESTOWN HIGH SCHOOL Photography B&W Photography Film Criticism
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Mishal was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on June 12, 2003, and moved to New Jersey where Mishal’s been attending school since 2008. Mishal attends Moorestown High School, but also attends Fleisher Art Memorial in Philadelphia for a multitude of media. Mishal has experience in a range of mediums, from sculpture to oil painting, and Mishal’s favorite, photography. Mishal has shown work at Moorestown High School, Fleisher Art Memorial, Burlington County Teen Arts and All South Jersey Art Festival.
Tomas Gray PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE CREATIVE & PERFORMING ARTS Digital Filmmaking Digital Effects for Film & Animation Film Criticism
Tomas Gray is 16 years old and from Guatemala. He lives in West Philly and attends the Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts. Tomas loves art because there are so many forms and ways to create it. He has wanted to do film since the 5th grade. He does film at CAPA but gets to enjoy the other art forms such as visual arts, instrumental, dance and theatre. Art is something Tomas Gray wants to create in the future.
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Jessica Griffin SOMERDALE, NEW JERSEY STERLING HIGH SCHOOL Illustration Alternative Painting Screenprinting
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Jessica Griffin (she/her) was born on Oct. 9, 2001, and hails from the exotic suburbia of Somerdale, New Jersey. Just a quick train ride from Philadelphia, she has always been influenced closely by both; her quiet hometown and unstable home life, and the diverse, robust city next door. She studies at Sterling High School, and has exhibited work there both her sophomore and junior years.
Lucce Guido PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA SCIENCE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY Oil Painting Advanced Drawing Sculpture & Installation
Lucce Guido, 17, was born on Jan. 2, 2002. He often repeats this to himself when he feels like he’s losing memory, which is often. Lucce was born in Philadelphia and he considers himself from Philadelphia, but has lived in Sweden for a year. Lucce goes to school at Science Leadership Academy at Beeber, a project-based learning school in West Philadelphia. Lucce uses watercolor and acrylic, and sketches with pencil or pen. His art is often about his feelings or what he thinks about. Sometimes he doesn’t know what his art is about or why, and that’s okay too.
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Paige Harner SPRINGFIELD, PENNSYLVANIA SPRINGFIELD HIGH SCHOOL Illustration Digital Effects for Film & Animation Writing for Comics
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Paige Harner was born on March 14, 2002, in Philadelphia, and grew up in Springfield, Pennsylvania, where she currently goes to high school. She became interested in art at a very young age and takes inspiration from a variety of sources including books, historical sites, museums, anime, the work of others, and the places and people that surround her.
Nichole Hernandez MIAMI, FLORIDA NEW WORLD SCHOOL OF THE ARTS Digital Filmmaking Digital Effects for Film & Animation Sculpture & Installation
Nichole Hernandez, born Sept. 5, 2001, is a rising senior at New World School of the Arts located in Miami. Her point of view as an artist is reflected in her body of work, in which she takes on the role of witness to document experiences both lived and received. Through the building of ensembles of experimental videos, and combining textiles with performative elements, she illustrates the dangers of the passage from female childhood to adulthood. Sculpturally, her large scale banners are used as outlets to release the repercussions of the perilous domestic world she inhabits.
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Cameron Howe WEST CHESTER, PENNSYLVANIA B. REED HENDERSON HIGH SCHOOL Animation Character Development Writing for Comics
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Cameron Red Howe, born Feb. 4, 2002, is a rising senior at West Chester’s B. Reed Henderson High School. Their art focuses on the medium of animation, specifically narrative or character-based animation. They also practice creative writing, but prefer to adapt the work of others over their own. When they do give their original ideas form, Howe enjoys manipulating animal and human shapes, often combining them in surrealist ways. However, due to their relative inexperience in the general field of art, Howe has yet to truly find a niche they can inhabit.
Onenasit Alex Inchote PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY AT PALUMBO Graphic Design Digital Effects for Film & Animation Sculpture & Installation
Onenasit Alex Inchote is a nearly 18-yearold student who attends Academy at Palumbo High School in Philadelphia. He was born on Aug. 4, 2001, in the city of Philadelphia. Even though his past history is somewhat of a mystery, his interests, however, aren’t a mystery. He has an interest in being a graphic design and digital effect major, as well as wanting to do animation.
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Meghan Ingersoll RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA LONGLEAF SCHOOL OF THE ARTS Illustration Alternative Painting Figure Drawing
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Meghan Ingersoll was born in Holly Springs, North Carolina, in 2002. She is currently based in Raleigh, North Carolina. She is currently attending Longleaf School of the Arts for illustration and painting. Her work is currently being shown at the North Carolina Museum of Art. Her work mainly takes the form of paintings and colored pencil illustrations. Ingersoll’s work focuses on women and empowering them through her bright colors and larger than life concepts. These concepts do not focus on realism but instead focus on emphasizing features of the subjects. Symbolism within her work is derived from various mythologies and ones of her own design.
Lindsay Kaplan BETHESDA, MARYLAND THE FIELD SCHOOL Illustration Creative Writing Figure Drawing
Lindsay Kaplan, born on March 7, is a rising junior at the Field School in Washington, D.C. Her art is inspired by history, especially early 20th century artwork. She enjoys experimenting with different aesthetics created by colors and art nouveau tropes. Lindsay incorporates many different historical era styles into her artwork, and looks to the poetic language in classic literature to influence her use of pattern and imagery. When people look at her artwork, she hopes that they will be able to pick out the historical context and acknowledge the symbolism she includes. She would like to thank her family, friends, teachers and TAs for their support.
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Katie Kelly UNION, NEW JERSEY ROSELLE CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL Digital Filmmaking Digital Effects for Film & Animation Film Criticism
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Katie Kelly is an artist from New Jersey who currently attends Roselle Catholic High School. She prefers the media of photography and film because they allow her to most successfully display her talents, interests and love for art. Her favorite things to film and photograph are hockey and concerts, because she loves being able to portray her love for the two in an artistic way. She wants all of her work to portray a message or story, and she wants it to evoke certain feelings within the audience. She hopes to excel in creating pieces of art for the world to resonate with and enjoy.
Priscilla Kutsukos MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL Digital Filmmaking B&W Darkroom Photography Screenprinting
Priscilla Kutsukos is an artist and fashion designer from Miami. She was born on Jan 29, 2002, to an Argentinian mother and a Greek father. The rising senior is currently attending Design and Architecture Senior High, where she is enrolled in the fashion program.
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Mercy Lindell NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA NEW ORLEANS CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS Oil Painting Alternative Painting Sculpture & Installation
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Mercy Lindell is a 17-year-old artist from New Orleans. She attends high school at the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts, and has shown and sold her work there for three consecutive years. Through her paintings, drawings and 3-D work, she explores the idea of “experience� and how experiences differ drastically from person to person. The motive behind most of her work has been to immerse the viewer, partially, entirely, literally or figuratively in her pieces by paying careful attention to the use of space.
Samantha Nicole Lopez BASKING RIDGE, NEW JERSEY RIDGE HIGH SCHOOL Animation Character Development Writing for Comics
Sammi was born in Singapore, and grew up there for a few years before immigrating to America, where she continues to live to this day. Her major influences are inspired by Asian heritage and American pop culture. She has graduated high school and is currently a freshman at UArts. Her main goal is to have a successful career in animation, visual storytelling and game art.
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Lamia Lopez HADDONFIELD, NEW JERSEY HADDONFIELD MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL Oil Painting Advanced Drawing Figure Drawing
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Lamia Lopez was born on Oct. 17, 2002. As the youngest of four girls, Lamia’s pieces usually depict a familial aspect due to her relationship with family. Lamia attends school in her current town, Haddonfield, New Jersey. At Haddonfield Memorial High School, Lamia is enrolled in a plethora of art classes including 2-D art, ceramics, metals and jewelry, and a basic intro to art class. This is usually where Lamia’s art can be seen, along with her own home.
JoLynn Low MICHIGAN CENTER, MICHIGAN MICHIGAN CENTER HIGH SCHOOL Photography Creative Writing Screenprinting
JoLynn was born May 15, 2002, and grew up in a small town called Jackson, Michigan. “The population of the whole city could fit into one building in Philadelphia. I go to an even smaller Junior/Senior high school, called Michigan Center junior/senior High. My art is truly about expressing myself and breaking the boundaries of a small town. Even though I never see myself permanently leaving, my art will always be bigger than Jackson. My art is me, and I am displayed in my art.”
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Kaylei Marquez PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA AGORA CYBER CHARTER SCHOOL Illustration Character Development Visual Storytelling
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Kaylei Marquez is a 17-year-old rising senior at Agora Cyber Charter School. She was born on March 31, 2002, at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She currently resides in Philadelphia with her family of five. Kaylei likes to incorporate storytelling into her art as much as possible. She seems to take a lot of pride in expression and storytelling. Kaylei likes to experiment with different media of art as well as different styles. She is still currently in the experimental stage of art in her life and loves to try new things.
Mario Martinez Ignacio LERMA, MEXICO THE GOW SCHOOL Graphic Design Creative Writing Writing for Comics
Mario Martinez Ignacio was born in Mexico City on March 13 of the year 2001. He is about to start his senior year in the school he has been attending for six years. This school is The Gow School, located in South Wales, New York State (just outside of Buffalo, NY). He loves to write and to try new types of art to open his surroundings.
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Sean Matthews COLLEGEVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA PERKIOMEN VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL Oil Painting Advanced Drawing Sculpture & Installation
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Sean Matthews is a 17-year-old artist, born July of 2002, from Collegeville, Pennsylvania. He has received most of his education at Perkiomen Valley High School and is set to graduate in 2020. Focusing on his personal childhood in his art, Matthews creates oil paintings and detailed self portraits that represent transient youth. He incorporates symbolic imagery and personal materials, alongside observational pieces that highlight technical skill and an aspiration to experiment with new media.
Stacey Mejia LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA NAVA COLLEGE PREP ACADEMY Illustration Character Development Sculpture & Installation
Stacey was born in 2002, in an area in Los Angeles called South Central. This small part of LA is known for its violence. After this summer, she will attend her fourth year of High School at Nava College Prep Academy, where she will take her fourth class in art. Stacey exhibited her work for the 26th Annual District Art Contest with a member of Congress, Lucille RoybalAllard. Last summer, she attended the Syracuse University summer college for a class in 2-D art, where she also exhibited her work.
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Josephine Meyer WYNNEWOOD, PENNSYLVANIA LOWER MERION HIGH SCHOOL Illustration Alternative Painting Figure Drawing
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Josephine Meyer was born May 31, 2002, in Lower Merion, a 20-minute drive from Philadelphia. Currently 17 years old, she is a rising senior at Lower Merion High School and attended public school there since first grade. Her art has been shown within her high school and at the local art center of Lower Merion.
Adam Moncrief BOCA RATON, FLORIDA BOCA RATON COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL Animation Character Development Sketchbooks: Experiments & Field Notes
Adam Moncrief was born on July 19, 2003, in the Houston area of Texas. They moved to Boca Raton, Florida, 2 years ago and is currently a junior at Boca Raton Community High School. Their primary medium is either digital art or water-based color and ink.
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Sakshi Nemlekar BRIDGEWATER, NEW JERSEY RARITAN HIGH SCHOOL Digital Filmmaking B&W Darkroom Photography Visual Storytelling
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Sakshi Nemlekar was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in December of 2001. She is enrolled in Bridgewater Raritan High School, as well as Raritan Valley Community College. She enjoys writing, ceramics, filmmaking, photography, as well as dance and cooking. Her work has been displayed in the Morristown Museum, as well as in annual art shows and showcases at her high school. Her work is about the problems that everyday people face and the looming environmental crisis. Nemlekar is an avid environmentalist and her work reflects that with strong aspects of nature, balancing the harsh tones of reality.
Lillian Ohr PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL Graphic Design Alternative Painting Figure Drawing
Lillian Ohr (b. 2001) was raised in Philadelphia. She is a senior at Central High School, where she has attended since 2016. Ohr has been drawing from a young age and has maintained this practice rigorously throughout her high-school years. She primarily draws the human figure and occasionally experiments with abstract art. Her artwork deals with issues concerning mental health, as well as her lived experiences as a young artist. She also enjoys exploring different worlds and characters through creative writing.
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Yve Okonsky ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA MOUNT VERNON HIGH SCHOOL Illustration Character Development Drawing
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Yve Okonsky is a 16-year-old student at Mount Vernon High School. She was born in Michigan on Sept. 2, 2002, and currently lives in Virginia. Yve’s art is about herself and her life. She expresses herself through her art, her interests and her frustrations. She works in traditional media, mostly graphite and colored pencils, though she also uses gel pens and microns for her art.
Jacob Ortiz-Strauss CINNAMINSON, NEW JERSEY CINNAMINSON HIGH SCHOOL Animation Character Development Visual Storytelling
Jacob Ortiz-Strauss was born on Aug. 16, 2001. He was born in Washington, D.C., but moved to Mexico at the age of 5. He currently lives in Cinnaminson, New Jersey, and attends Cinnaminson High School. When it comes to art, he hopes to create something that can instill fear or inspiration. Using a pen and pencil, Jacob loves to draw illustrations of unsettling creatures or beautiful vistas for people to admire.
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Oona Pierre PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL Illustration Advanced Drawing Screenprinting
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Oona Pierre was born Feb. 25, 2002, and grew up in Brooklyn, NY, moving to Philadelphia for middle school. She attends The Lawrenceville School, a boarding school in New Jersey, where she has found outlets for her art in the school’s numerous publications.
Nikolas Porter SPRINGFIELD, VIRGINIA WEST SPRINGFIELD HIGH SCHOOL Animation Character Development Sketchbooks: Experiments & Field Notes
Born and raised in Springfield, Virginia, Nikolas Eugene Porter (b. Sept. 1, 2001), a half-Greek American, is fascinated with the old cartoons and humor during the 1940s. From his high school years, he developed a taste for more mature arts. Among these arts are pop surrealism, Japanese woodblock prints, Italian Renaissance art, comic book art and manga techniques. All of these subjects influence his animations and illustrations. While attending West Springfield High School, he was taken on by Mr. Peter Leone Galifianakis to be an apprentice. Galifianakis helped further his skills and development in the world of art.
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Madison Red DEVON, PENNSYLVANIA CONESTOGA HIGH SCHOOL Graphic Design Character Development Sketchbooks: Experiments & Field Notes
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Madison Red (b. 2001) is an artist and student from Devon, Pennsylvania. She is currently a rising senior attending Conestoga High School, where she is an enthusiastic member of the school’s Studio Art program. She has shown her work in local libraries, community art shows and in her school gallery. Her paintings and drawings, which depict nature in a textured and colorful style, attempt to bring an almost storybook feel to real life flowers and animals.
Raenya Rogers PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA MASTERY CHARTER SCHOOL Illustration Character Development Film Criticism
Raenya Rogers was born on Dec. 9, 2002, and raised in Philadelphia. She is currently attending school at Mastery Shoemaker Charter School campus for her freshman through senior year. Raenya makes stories and sketches that explain difficult situations, such as abuse. The goal in her work is to give people the chance to see things from her point of view. Many of her works juxtapose the different elements. She does this by using two different colors, styles or patterns.
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Micah Schmerling AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS PIONEER VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS HIGH SCHOOL Graphic Design Creative Writing Street Photography
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Micah Schmerling (b. 2003) is a graphic designer from Amherst, Massachusetts. They attend the Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter Public School in South Hadley, Massachusetts, where they are going into junior year with a focus in graphic design. They primarily use both Adobe Illustrator and Adobe InDesign. Schmerling normally sketches initial ideas in pencil to start, later developing more detailed plans, then further develops those ideas digitally. Their art is about many things, but they focus on political and social commentary within their work. The work you are observing is the culmination of their studies at UArts’ Summer Institute.
Havilynn Scruggs MAGNOLIA, DELAWARE CAESAR RODNEY HIGH SCHOOL Digital Filmmaking Digital Effects for Film & Animation Street Photography
Havilynn Scruggs is a 17-year-old aspiring filmmaker. Scruggs was born in White Plains, New York, and is now currently a resident of Magnolia, Delaware. She is a rising senior at Caesar Rodney High School. Her work in digital filmmaking is mainly portraiture and experimental short projects. Her portrait films are observational projects about her own personal struggles with mental health, and external subjects with admirable stories and challenges. Scruggs plans to use her final to develop her style in these broad genres of film.
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Grace Shoemaker WYNNEWOOD, PENNSYLVANIA HAVERFORD HIGH SCHOOL Illustration Advanced Drawing Sketchbooks: Experiments & Field Notes
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Grace Shoemaker is a 16-year-old artist who works primarily in traditional media. She is a rising junior at Haverford High School in Havertown, Pennsylvania, where she has lived all her life. Often her pieces feature women, whimsical creatures and/ or floral elements. Her style is mostly realistic, done with graphite, watercolor paint or water-based inks. Grace also uses various inks for decorative lettering and linework. Her art depicts social issues and illustrates a word or poem. She is passionate about spreading awareness or a message through her work, utilizing contrasting colors and lines to emphasize contradicting forces in society.
Cassandra Siniscalco FLEMINGTON, NEW JERSEY HUNTERDON CENTRAL REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL Illustration Woodworking Sketchbooks: Experiments & Field Notes
Cassandra Siniscalco was born Sept. 13, 2002, in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, and has lived there her whole life. Cassandra has attended Hunterdon Central Regional High School since 2016 and will be entering her senior year there this fall. Cassandra Siniscalco’s art is extremely stylized, and she loves playing with shapes and exaggerated features in her work. Her work typically involves figures, but she also enjoys drawing scenes and plants. She uses a wide range of media in her work, some common ones being marker, colored pencil and watercolor. Cassandra has a love of fantasy worlds and characters, and she hopes to use her love of fantasy to create magical comics or graphic novels to tell stories about issues that she considers personal. Such topics include invisible illness, friendship and self acceptance.
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Emmanuel Smith MOUNT HOLLY, NEW JERSEY RANCOCAS VALLEY REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL Digital Filmmaking Digital Effects for Film & Animation Visual Storytelling
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Emmanuel Smith was born in Mount Holly, New Jersey, and currently attends Rancocas Valley. From an early age, Emmanuel played football, but one day, he suffered an injury. Because of this injury, he was unable to continue playing. While he recovered, he furthered his interest in film. He began to study directors such as Quentin Tarantino, and he studied what worked in films and what didn’t. Soon his great interest in watching and making short films became his life goal.
Bryan Smith-McCarty SHAMONG, NEW JERSEY SENECA HIGH SCHOOL Photography B&W Darkroom Photography Street Photography
Bryan Smith-McCarty was born Feb. 7, 2002. He came from a small town in New Jersey called Shamong. He was always outside experiencing nature and the overall atmosphere of the woods life. He feels most comfortable with street and exploration types of photography. Bryan also likes to skate, so he is always around the street scene. Going into senior year, Bryan has strengthened his abilities in photography, making that his choice of career for later years.
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Azeemah Solomon PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS Graphic Design Advanced Drawing Visual Storytelling
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Azeemah Solomon (b. Feb. 27, 2002) is an African American female artist who lives in Philadelphia. She is currently a senior at the Philadelphia High School for Girls and plans to apply to RISD this fall. Growing up in the city of Philadelphia taught Azeemah about chaos. She learned how and when it can be avoided; that approach is reflected in her artwork. Rarely will Azeemah use loud or violent elements to create because she wants to comfort the viewer. She uses soft media that create aesthetically pleasing visuals.
Sarah Solomon SOUTH ORANGE, NEW JERSEY COLUMBIA HIGH SCHOOL Graphic Design B&W Darkroom Photography Street Photography
Sarah Solomon is a 17-year-old American graphic designer and photographer who lives in South Orange, New Jersey. She was born on July 7, 2002. Solomon attends Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey, and will graduate in spring of 2020. Solomon’s graphic design pieces have combined elements of realism and surrealism. Almost all her designs have been created on a computer, but some elements of her designs have been done by hand and scanning certain items onto the computer. Her designs incorporate different aspects of her life.
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Michael Staniz CHESTERBROOK, PENNSYLVANIA CONESTOGA HIGH SCHOOL Illustration Advanced Drawing Figure Drawing
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Michael Staniz is a 17-year-old artist from Chester County, Pennsylvania. He attends Conestoga High School, is a National Honor Society member and is president of the school’s branch of the National Art Honor Society. As a chromesthesiac (an auditory-visual form of synesthesia), many of Michael’s noteworthy pieces are paintings of music and how it can be depicted. He enjoys creating art in various 2-D media, including digital work, watercolor and marker work.
Amani Starks CRUM LYNNE, PENNSYLVANIA RIDLEY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL Animation Character Development Writing for Comics
Amani Najeebah Starks was born in Philadelphia in September of 2002. Her parents are Khalif and Ivory. After moving from Philly to Delaware County, Amani has made a life in Ridley Park, PA, and is in the graduating class of 2020. Amani has been creating art ever since she could hold a crayon and scribble. She has had her art shown in the Urban Art Gallery in Philadelphia. Amani creates art that is fun to look at but also interpretive. She draws inspiration from the television shows she grew up watching, children’s books she has read, and from her own life and everlasting imagination. She makes art for those who care to look and care to see. She tries to put a message in most of her work and she likes to make people think when she makes art.
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Annabelle Sun CHESTER SPRINGS, PENNSYLVANIA DOWNINGTOWN HIGH SCHOOL EAST Animation Alternative Painting Figure Drawing
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Annabelle is from Chester Springs and was born in Pennsylvania. She’s a rising sophomore at Downingtown East High School. She enjoys art because it helps her relax and she can create something valuable to her. She does a lot of colored pencil and watercolor. Her work is symbolic of her progression and her quality of work. She also values creativity in her work.
Kasey Taffe PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS Illustration Woodworking Sketchbooks: Experiments & Field Notes
Kasey was born on Dec. 4, 2001, and lives in the Fox Chase neighborhood of Philadelphia with her mother and two pets. Growing up, she was obsessed with cartoons, and they’ve influenced her style very clearly, with thick line art, rounded edges, bright and vivid coloring, and exaggerated features. She is 17 and attends school at the Philadelphia High School for Girls.
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Lee Tew LANTANA, FLORIDA A.W. DREYFOOS SCHOOL OF THE ARTS Animation Character Development Writing for Comics
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Lee Tew was born in Albrightsville, Pennsylvania, on April 11th, 2002. They attend A.W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts in West Palm Beach, Florida. They have an admiration for all art forms, including sculpture, painting and printmaking. Tew prefers their art to focus on storytelling through illustration and animation with a concentration in sexuality and Christianity. Their work showcases different worlds and characters, with many of them being inspired by real people, places and experiences in Tew’s life. Their goal of their art is to create stories that will help their audience feel happy and comforted through comedy and satire.
Ariana Velasquez CHERRY HILL, NEW JERSEY PHILLIPS ACADEMY Illustration Advanced Drawing Street Photography
Ariana Velasquez was born in June of 2004 in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, and attends Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. Though she enjoys working in ink, Ariana began drawing in pencil and has continued in that medium for most of her life.
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Daniela Velasquez CHERRY HILL, NEW JERSEY PHILLIPS ACADEMY Illustration Advanced Drawing Visual Storytelling
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Daniela Velasquez was born in 2004 in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, and attends Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. Daniela works primarily in graphite and pen, and ink on paper. Much of her work is autobiographical and symbolically depicts her own emotions and experiences; Daniela’s experiences as a musician, twin, modern student and biracial person influence her work. In this exhibition, Daniela uses pen, ink and gouache to capture her interpretation of the different forms of art she experiences, at times mixing the media digitally to do so.
Bennett Vradelis ELKINS PARK, PENNSYLVANIA ABINGTON HIGH SCHOOL Illustration Woodworking Visual Storytelling
Born in Brooklyn in 2001, Bennett Vradelis spent most of his childhood just north of Philadelphia and attended Abington Senior High School. His art focuses around exploration and discovery, both of the self and the world. Bennett works mostly in 2-D media, ranging from watercolor and acrylic to papercuts and collage. He also does 3-D pieces, including but not limited to bandsaw boxes and theater sets. Bennett has had his artwork displayed at the Woodmere Art Museum and at the Abington Art Center.
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Julianna Williams LIBERTY, NORTH CAROLINA JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOL Digital Filmmaking Creative Writing Drawing
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Julianna Williams is an artist from North Carolina and attends James Madison High School. During the Summer Institute at UArts, Julianna explored filmmaking. Julianna’s creative work is not just visual, as Julianna also participated in the creative writing elective.
Lily Wise FLAGTOWN, NEW JERSEY RUTGERS PREPARATORY SCHOOL Illustration Character Development Sketchbooks
Lily Wise was born July 30th and grew up in various small New Jersey towns. The bland, boring atmosphere was her reason for creating bright, colorful and abstract pieces. These pieces brought interest and energy into her seemingly uneventful life. She attends Rutgers Preparatory School, a private school that has a more realistic art program, giving her a broad spectrum in her art. Lily bases most of her pieces on her many emotions, which is why her pieces can go from dark to bright neon. She thinks her psychedelic style is best represented on apparel or items such as skateboards. She wants people to interpret the pieces for themselves and not have a select meaning for everyone to blindly follow. It’s important to her that people apply their own emotions and feelings to the work while also being overwhelmed by all the different elements.
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Faculty ALEXIS APFELBAUM Creative Writing MFA ‘11 Rutgers University-Camden, Creative Writing BA ‘09 Temple University, English
JOSEPH HOCKER Photography, B&W Darkroom Photography MFA ‘14 Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Photography BFA ‘11 University of the Arts, Photography
LOWELL BOSTON Animation, Digital Effects for Film & Animation MFA ‘91 California Institute of the Arts, Experimental Animation BFA ‘88 University of the Arts, Animation
LIZ O’DONNELL Illustration, Character Development: Illustration BFA ‘17 University of the Arts, Illustration
BARRETT CAPISTRAN Visual Storytelling BFA ‘18 University of the Arts, Illustration VERONICA CIANFRANO Oil Painting, Exhibition Coordinator MFA ‘10 University of the Arts, Painting BS ‘08 Southern Connecticut State University, Studio Art MATTHEW COURTNEY Sculpture & Installation MFA ‘91 Kent State University, Ceramics BS ‘84 University of the Arts, Industrial Design ROBERT CURRY Film Criticism BFA ‘11 University of the Arts, Film MOLLY EGAN Sketchbooks: Experiments & Field Notes BFA ‘15 University of the Arts, Illustration MICHAEL GEORGE Digital Effects for Film & Animation BFA ‘06 Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, Art/Computer Animation KEVIN HETZEL Drawing MFA ‘19 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts BFA ‘15 University of the Arts, Illustration
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JOE OSTROWSKI Street Photography BFA ‘19 University of the Arts, Photography CHRISTIAN PATCHELL Illustration, Character Development: Illustration, Writing for Comics BFA ‘95 University of the Arts, Illustration SARAH PATER Alternative Painting, Figure Drawing MFA ‘16 Rhode Island School of Design, Painting BFA’ 09 Boston University, Painting COLIN PEZZANO Woodworking Studio: Design & Build BFA ‘14 University of the Arts, Craft & Material Studies ELLEN REYNOLDS Digital Filmmaking MA ‘17 The New School, Media Studies BA ‘80 Antioch College ANNEMARIE ROBINSON Graphic Design MAT ‘13 University of the Arts, Art Education BFA ‘07 University of the Arts, Graphic Design PAUL ROUPHAIL Critical Studies MFA ‘16 Rhode Island School of Design BFA ‘10 Carnegie Mellon University ALYSSA WINSCOM Advanced Drawing BFA ‘18 University of the Arts, Illustration
Teaching Assistants KATE ARSENLIS Illustration, Character Development TORI CANNING Screenprinting AMANDA CAPPELLI Figure Drawing HANNAH CUEVAS Illustration, Character Development JESSE DEROCCO Digital Filmmaking ALEX GONZALEZ Advanced Drawing, Visual Storytelling KATIE MAAS Woodworking: Design & Build RACHAEL MILLER Graphic Design AUSTIN PETIT Animation KYLA SYTSMA Animation JAMIE STOW B&W Darkroom Photography, Street Photography
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