Summer Institute 2018 Art, Media + Design Lookbook

ART, MEDIA + DESIGN LOOKBOOK PRECOLLEGE SUMMER INSTITUTE 2018

The University of the Arts Pre-College Summer Institute 2018 Art, Media + Design LookBook The Pre-College Art, Media + Design Summer Institute is a dynamic and challenging program for highly driven high school students. Accepted students gain 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 the Summer 2018 students.

Students in the Summer Institute work hard. They become immersed in rigorous visual and critical inquiry, experimenting and challenging themselves with new skills, ideas, and perspectives. While on campus, they attend performances, exhibitions, museums, and workshops as they explore the culturally rich city of Philadelphia.

Pre-College Staff Rosi Dispensa Director, Pre-College Programs

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The students in this book are independent thinkers. Here, they were provoked and inspired to think like artists and designers—with imagination, insight, and fiercely individual vision.

BFA ‘04 The University of the Arts Photography MA ‘11 The University of the Arts Art Education

Shannon Gingell Assistant Director, Pre-College Programs

William Debuono Program Assistant, Pre-College Programs

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Artists Kingdom Bankston

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Tyler Marcano

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Natalie Berkheimer

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Harry Marshall

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Amy Boguslavsky

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Gloria Martinez

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Logan Brodsky

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Madeleine Maule

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Zivia Brown

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Jessica Medenecki

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Sydney Campbell

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Priya Mistri

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Jocelyn Campbell

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Daniela Montes de Oca

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Alyssa Chandler

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Amelia Narducci

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Gabriela Colagioia

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Elias Nathan

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Paige Conte

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Andrew O’Connor

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Kamryn Des Jardin

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Sandrina Penn

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Emma Deutsch

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Jacob Perez

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Cameron Eberly

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Leon Price

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Hagar Eldeeb

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Christie Pyanoe

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Sean Flaherty

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Migle Railaite

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Abraham Frankel

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Ana Robles

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Izzy Gibson

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Catherine Roser

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Katia Giovannetti

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Raevyn Ruano

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Chloe Griffault

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Kelly Saylor

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Lauren Hahn

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Frederick Schachinger

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Kelly Harmison

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Evelyn Shih

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Nikayah Hill

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Jenny Sim

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Alexander Holden

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Cassandra Siniscalco

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Leila Ibrahim

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Gillian Smalley

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Aaron Johnson

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Mica Squillace

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Austin Johnson

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Jeanna Stedman

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Kayla Klavins

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Kasey Taffe

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Ivy Krell

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Jaedyn Taylor

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Ethan Larrabee

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Anabella Trucco

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Benjamin Lazzaro

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Sophia Washburn

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Kaolin Leap

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Julian Wiggins

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Lamia Lopez

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Lauren Williams

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Erin Ma

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Lucas Woelk

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Valeria Maldonado

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Beatrice Woodward

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Kingdom Bankston

Illustration Character Development Drawing

Dallas, TX Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts Kingdom Lei is multi-faceted artist hailing from Dallas, Texas. This rising senior is currently a theatre major at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, but has chosen to take the summer to dive in to one of his greatest escapes: illustration. His art style is a culmination multiple cultural elements including hip hop, cult films, american comics, and anime. Kingdom has faced displacement, social injustice, and the edge of death, and expresses his story through one particular series of pieces: The Devil in the Flowers. He depicts himself and others who have entered his life as forces of nature and in their truest form. To accompany and narrate this story, he also makes music with a heavy lyrical influence from Kendrick Lamar and instrumental influence from his very talented circle of friends he surrounds himself with.

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Natalie Berkheimer

Animation Character Development Drawing

Hanover, PA South Western High School Natalie Berkheimer was born on September 6th, 2001, in Hanover Pennsylvania.

Her parents are Brian and Melanie Berkhimer and she has a brother and two halfsisters. She is currently a senior at South Western High School. In her free time, Natalie spends her time playing video games and drawing. When Natalie graduates from high school she hopes to major in animation or illustration. After college Natalie would like to pursue a career in animation or character design.

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Amy Boguslavsky

Graphic Design Alternative Painting Advanced Drawing

Newtown, PA Barrack Hebrew Academy Amy Boguslavsky is an artist with a passion for painting and drawing. She was born in Philadelphia and raised in Newtown, Pennsylvania. Inspiration constantly strikes her when traveling to picturesque locations. Other aspects of life that inspire her paintings and drawings include, the process of coping with anxiety and dealing with loss. She primarily produces portraits, focusing deeply on the emotions displayed through the facial expressions of individuals. Most of her paintings are of landscapes, painted on canvases and unusual surfaces. Some of her art is influenced by her Russian-Jewish background and coming from a family of immigrants.

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Logan Brodsky

Film Film Criticism Digital Effects for Film + Animation

Boca Raton, FL Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts Logan Brodsky is a filmmaker based in West Palm Beach, Florida, where she continues her studies at Dreyfoos School of the Arts. Her recent work at the University of the Arts has endured challenging tasks including: specific story and shot structure.

Her film Dismissed is a contemporary piece full of emotions with a cinematic experience. The story revolves around one girl who feels stuck in time. Other works of Brodsky has been shown at the Marjorie Fischer Gallery, Arts Garage Gallery, and 2017 America at the School of Visual Arts Gramercy Gallery.

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Zivia Brown

Illustration Sculpture Drawing

Philadelphia, PA The Crefeld School Zivia Brown was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on January 17th, 2002. Her parents moved the family to Philadelphia a few years later, where they started their own theatre company. Brown grew up around the stage, admiring props and costumes, and watching stories be brought to life. Around third grade Brown’s personality shifted, turning inward from her previously extroverted self, and she began to develop depression and anxiety. Through the years, art became a safe place for her to tuck herself away and express the many ideas and emotions that she hid from the world, afraid of sharing what was on her mind. She discovered online communities, which further advanced her interested and inspired her to reach out a little more.

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Brown has been a student of two high schools so far, the first being Science Leadership Academy for 9th grade (2016-2017) and a part of 10th grade.

She then transferred to The Crefeld School in the middle of 10th grade (2018).

Brown has exhibited her work at many school art shows throughout the years, as well as had a piece at The Imperfect Gallery in Germantown. Brown is an Illustration major in the UArts Pre-College Art, Media + Design intensive.

Sydney Campbell

Film Film Criticism Digital Effects for Film + Animation

Oxford, PA Philadelphia High School For Creative Performing Arts Sydney Campbell (B. 2001) grew up in west Philadelphia to foreign parents.

Both of her parents immigrated from Kingston, Jamaica in the 1990s. As she got older, Sydney realized that she would rather be behind the camera, directing and screenwriting, disregarding her mother’s pleas to be in front of it. Directors like F. Gary Gray, Ryan Coogler, and Spike Lee are black directors that inspire her every single day. Sydney currently attends the Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts. Sydney’s program and action points are to bring light to taboo subjects like feminism, colorism, and immigration.

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Jocelyn Campbell

Illustration Sculpture Figure Drawing

Philadelphia, PA Avon Grove Charter School

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Jocelyn Campbell was born on January 9th, 2001. She is from Oxford, Pennsylvania and has attended Avon Grove Charter School from 1st to 12th grade.

Campbell has shown her work in Avon Grove Charter School’s arts fest, the Avon Grove Library, and the CCAA Exton Square Gallery. She is currently working on projects that will be displayed on the exterior of the Avon Grove Charter School building. Jocelyn Campbell has many creative persuits, all of which contribute to her work. She enjoys sewing, drawing/painting, and photography. Campbell often uses aspects of one interest to inspire a project in another medium. Jocelyn Campbell’s illustrations are primarily done in watercolor or colored pencil, although she often experiments with different media. Campbell’s illustrations usually have bright, vibrant colors paired with muted ones. The subjects are typically put in outlandish situations or environments creating a surreal atmosphere. Through the use of color, composition, and symbols Campbell’s work captures her emotions and thoughts that can only be expressed through illustrations.

Alyssa Chandler

Illustration Alternative Painting Figure Drawing

Wayne, PA Shipley School Growing up as a multicultural young adult during the technology age, Alyssa Chandler (B. 2002) uses her works of art to comment on emotional, political, and economical issues that are only applicable to her modern day viewpoint.

She weaves subtle statements into her drawings, paintings, and sketchbook pages that primarily focus on the human race. She favors using traditional mediums such as watercolor, pencil, and pen in her work and often renders portraits of the human body and face. The traditional mediums and techniques she uses contrast the modern themes to create an inner clash throughout her paintings that reflects the modern disconnect throughout society. Alyssa Chandler studied art through The Shipley School's studio program in high school from 2016 to 2020, and attended various workshops and programs including The University of the Arts Pre College program. Her work has won multiple young adult art awards and has been exhibited at school, area, and merit galleries during her high school career.

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Gabriela Colagioia

Film Film Criticism Screenprinting

Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia High School For Creative Performing Arts Throughout her life, Gabriela Colagioia has realized that art is not only a space for expression, but also exploration. She treats every project as a unique study of the world around her. Behaving like dreams, her work often merges fragments of realism and surrealism, which pushes the viewer to think. Gabriela Catia Colagioia (born October 2001) is an artist and filmmaker out of South Philadelphia. The death of her father, and mother’s diagnosis with Multiple Sclerosis have forced her to grow up quickly, and realize the tenuous nature of life. She currently attends the Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts, and has had her work shown in their Annual Art Exhibition. Colagioia has screened films at those exhibitions, the Greenfield Youth Film Festival, and at the School District of Philadelphia, where she received multiple awards.

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Paige Conte

Animation Character Development Figure Drawing

Naples, FL Naples High School Paige Conte was born (B. 2000) and raised in Stone Harbor New Jersey, an island off of the Cape May Peninsula. From a young age until 8th grade Paige attended nature and animal camps giving her a love of the animals around her. In High School, her family moved part-time to Naples Florida in search of better schools.

Although she had been drawing all her life, it wasn't it until high school that she truly fell in love with it. In her Junior year, she was featured at two galleries and won an award for her art at both (1st place for Marco Island Center for the Arts 2018 Merit Award for an acrylic painting “Kieser” and a Recognition Award from Artis of Naples for a scruffigo vase “In the woods”).

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Kamryn Des Jardin

Painting Alternative Photo Sketchbooks: Experiments + Field Notes

Loxahatchee, FL Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts Kamryn Des Jardin (B. 2001) is an American artist who has lived the entirety of her life in South Florida. She is currently enrolled at Dreyfoos School of the Arts where she majors in Visual Arts. She has had work shown at the Armory Arts Center in West Palm Beach, and at Continuum (2018), a pop up art exhibition in West Palm Beach. Kamryn works primarily with acrylic paint. She likes to consider her recent work to be a celebration of femininity. As a basis for her work, she uses the idea that femininity is a social construct and that it is something that can be enjoyed by all, regardless of gender. She often conveys this with her subject matter and a rose toned color palette.

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Emma Deutsch

Film Alternative Painting Street Photography

Narberth, PA Harriton High School Emma Deutsch (b. November 22, 2001) is a student of photography, painting, and filmmaking from the Philadelphia area. She is originally from Brooklyn, New York, but moved with her parents and younger sister 5 years ago. She is a rising senior at Harriton High School. Her work typically focuses on themes of nature, emotion, and relationships that surround us. Her appreciation for the environment and love for her family and friends typically inspires her work, as does anger for anything that threatens these.

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Cameron Eberly

Illustration Character Development Figure Drawing

Collegeville, PA Perkiomen Valley High School Cami Eberly, who was born in Pennsylvania but spent her childhood between the United States and South Africa, is an artist who focuses mainly on drawing the beauty of humans and nature through both digital and traditional art mediums.

Her biggest inspiration in art is the work of Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli.

She also finds inspiration in life and exaggerates and mystifies it in her work.

Her goal is to become a visual developer for animation and video games, and hopefully eventually open her own studio in which she can tell her own stories through animation.

She has received her education so far through art programs at Perkiomen Valley High School and the UArts Pre-College programs. Her art is shown online through her few social media accounts.

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Hagar Eldeeb

Illustration Creative Writing Sketchbooks: Experiments + Field Notes

Harleysville, PA Souderton Area High School Hagar Eldeeb (b. July 2, 2003) is an observant and social young woman.

She grew up in a small town called Harleysville. She continuously learns the many flaws in society, in which she attempts to project in her art.

Hagar is currently a student in Souderton Area High School. Drawing before she began writing, Eldeeb discovered her passion before she knew what it meant. Hagar works hard to become successful, but works especially hard for art. She will graduate in 2021, and have a full future set for herself through college and the arts.

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Sean Flaherty

Animation Character Development Sketchbooks: Experiments + Field Notes

Allison Park, PA Hampton High School

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Living solely in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, Sean Flaherty (B. 2001) is an abstract digital artist who primarily focuses on deep, intricate, and cryptic narratives.

Such narratives are told in the form of various art pieces, such as audio reactive visual performances, vintage, “found footage” style films, abstract paintings, digital art, poetry, and photography. The story being told does not necessarily confine itself to a single medium. Various different media tell a different character arc, piece of lore, or act in an interactive narrative, intertwining fine arts and alternate reality game attributes. Sean Flaherty’s best works are usually told with coming of age elements and themes of universal acceptance; not only of those oppressed, but for forgiveness of the oppressors as well. Flaherty is a firm believer in the philosophy that hate cannot be fought with more hate. Acceptance is hate’s natural opposite, and while fear and offense, whether it be physical or verbal, is a temporary measure to shut others down, their hate will only grow in silence, until silence cannot bear any more.

Abraham Frankel

Illustration Character Development Figure Drawing

Hightstown, NJ Hightstown High School Abraham Frankel is from New Jersey and is a rising senior at Hightstown High School. He was born on June 24th 2001 in East Windsor, New Jersey.

He is an illustration major at UArts and wants to further pursue illustration in college. He primarily works with ink and pastel because he likes the organic look that it creates. Abe has also won first place in an art show at his high school for a pastel drawing he did. His recent works include a variety of mediums which include charcoal, colored pencil, graphite, ink, and digital works. Abe uses these various mediums to create an effect best suited to the individual work. The drawings are mainly focused on the human form and human emotion. Each piece is centered around a different emotion. In fact, some even include several emotions in one piece. This is to demonstrate the complexity of the human brain.

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Izzy Gibson

Photography Alternative Painting Sketchbooks: Experiments + Field Notes

Philadelphia, PA Friends Central School Raised in the city of Philadelphia, Isaiah Gibson was subject to many different art forms growing up in the neighborhood of Mount Airy. He was born in 2002 and ever since he was a child, Gibson has always been interested in art. He is currently expanding his horizons, seeking out interests in different mediums, but he is primarily focused on music. Even in his music he continues to experiment with different genres and styles such as Hip Hop, Electric and Free Jazz, in hopes of finding his own identity. He currently attends Friend’s Central School, a Quaker school on the Main Line, where he still goes today. He keeps his work fairly reserved, and has only shown the music he’s made to his close friends and family, awaiting the right time to release it to the world.

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Katia Giovannetti

Film Film Criticism Figure Drawing

Highland Park, NJ Highland Park High School Katia Giovannetti has been creating as young as she can remember. In whatever medium, she covers a broad range of technique and style. Her preferred mediums are film and fashion design. In both, she likes to capture real subjects in what she observes. Real life is not often depicted as realistic as it could be, and Katia Giovannetti aims to change that. Not only does her inspiration come from what is observed, but what is experienced. Giovannetti suffers from Attention Deficit Disorder. Growing up with this adversity influenced her to channel this frustration and isolation into art. Katia Giovannetti’s artwork can focus on the beauty of the world and life in times of struggle. Whether it’s the inherited slavic stubborn nature or the political climate she grew up in, her work sometimes can touch on rebellion and free thinking. Giovannetti notes that her tight knit family is what inspires the nature of her work the most. Her grandparents roots of immigration from Italy and Croatia inspires her ethic to be hardworking.

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Katia Giovannetti is from Highland Park, New Jersey, the youngest of three children and a cat mom. Artistic thinking passed on through the woodworkers and painters in her family, she realized this, and learned to appreciate the mindset. Creating as much and as often as her mother was willing to drive to Jo-Ann’s fabric & art supply store, her ideas were always on her mind. Katia hopes to continue to create what she loves.

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Chloe Griffault

Game Design Creative Writing Sketchbooks: Experiments + Field Notes

Haddonfield, NJ Haddonfield Memorial High School Chloe Griffault was born on July 21, 2002, just outside of Hoboken, New Jersey.

She eventually moved to South Orange, New Jersey, and then to Haddonfield, New Jersey. She currently attends Haddonfield Memorial High School and graduates in 2020. She also attended University of the Arts Pre-College program in 2018. Her art strays away from realism and is in a more fantastical style. Griffault also writes short stories, and creates video and board games. Her stories and games keep with the style of her art, and tend to be either fantasy or science fiction. Her work also tends to revolve around relationships. She is also involved in activism, especially lgbt activism, and has made a piece for the Swim On Zine, for which all profits are donated to end shark fishing. Her art can be found on her social media accounts.

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Lauren Hahn

Illustration Packaging Design Drawing

West Milford, NJ West Milford Township High School

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Kelly Harmison

Illustration Alternative Painting Advanced Drawing

Herndon, VA Chantilly High School She was born on April 20th, 2001 In Virginia. Growing up near DC where individuality can thrive, she has been in an environment capable of nurturing her creativity. Graduating from the class of 2019 at Chantilly High School, she has been doing art since Elementary school and knew from the beginning that art is what she wanted to do. She has shown her work at her High School and around her local area. Her family has always supported her interest in the arts and continues to help her pursue her dreams.

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Nikayah Hill

Illustration Alternative Painting Taxidermy as Wearable Art

Philadelphia, PA Chad Charter High School For Architecture Design Nikayah Hill is a 17 year old illustrator based in Philadelphia, PA. Currently she works to build on her knowledge of as well as experiment with different media. Inspired by the works of Mary Sibandi, and Amaya Salizar, Nikayah strives to coax viewers into appreciating chaotic beauty. By applying nontraditional techniques using traditional media, she encourages others to find and embrace the disorder present within us.

After graduating high school Nikayah intends to continue seeking education in her field as a visual artist via college. In college she will learn how to navigate the business aspect of her career.

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Alexander Holden

Illustration Creative Writing Advanced Drawing

Mt. Laurel, NJ Burlington County Institute of Technology

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Alex Holden is from Mount Laurel, New Jersey. He is a rising senior at Burlington County Institute of Technology where he is an Advertising Art & Graphic Design major. Alex lives with his parents, his brother, and a really annoying cat. He is interested in becoming an illustrator and he enjoys anime, comic books, graphic novels, cartoons, video games, YouTube, and chapter books, as well as writing; all of which influence his art. He loves art mainly because it’s a way for him to express all of his ideas for characters and different stories. He also loves art because it helps him focus better in the classroom if he’s drawing at the same time as a teacher is giving a lesson. He takes any opportunity he can to draw and create artwork that he thinks of. If he has an Idea for something really cool and interesting, he immediately jumps into drawing and designing the concept.

He also draws requests for friends and others so that he can spread his work out to the world. He’s done many works for people who are now close friends of his. Alex also likes to do an art piece for a teacher at the end of the year as a goodbye present. He’s also drawn artwork based on inspiration from his friends and family, as well as learning how to paint from watching Bob Ross.

Leila Ibrahim

Photography Alternative Photo Screenprinting

Philadelphia, PA Central High School Leila Ibrahim is a 17 year old artist from Philadelphia who attends Central High School. Leila is Puerto Rican and Palestinian and works to incorporate all aspects of her identity in her work and hopes to be the representation marginalized people need. Her main passion is photography, which she started summer of 2017.

She’s taken multiple classes for it at Philadelphia Photo Arts Center and the University of the Arts. Leila has won awards and photography competitions like the Unseen Project and the Scholastic Art and Writing Competition. She’s also showcased multiple times with the teen run Future Is Us art collective.

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Aaron Johnson

Animation Character Development Figure Drawing

Accokeek, MD Oxon Hill High School Aaron Allan Johnson was born in Washington, D.C. in the year 2001. He lives in Accokeek, MD and is pursuing a future in 2D animation. He is currently a rising senior attending Oxon Hill High School, and lives with his parents and 3 brothers.

As the second oldest of four children, he is given many responsibilities, but nothing more than he can handle. Now, he is studying at the precollege program at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia ― learning all he can about animation, character development, and the techniques/ideologies of art. For one month, he will be experiencing undergrad life in the city and preparing for life after high school. In the future, he is unsure of the college he wants to attend, but still has strong intentions of majoring in animation.

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Austin Johnson

Illustration Character Development Advanced Drawing

Clementon, NJ Church Farm School Austin C. Johnson was born August 1st, 2001 in Voorhees, New Jersey.

He has been drawing his own characters since the age of 4 and aims to one day create many of his own graphic novels. He was hugely inspired by manga, namely by series like Dragon Ball and My Hero Academia. He is currently attending a boarding school called Church Farm School (CFS).

In the past, he has shown his own work at craft festivals held by the school.

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Kayla Klavins

Graphic Design Packaging Design Street Photography

Boynton Beach, FL Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts Kayla Klavins is an artist from South Florida who was born on November 3rd, 2000. She works in various mediums including, but not limited to, graphic design, photography, and printmaking. She has worked professionally as an artist for six years facilitated by her formal education in graphic design at Don Estridge High Tech Middle School and Dreyfoos School of the Arts.

Her work at UArts combines graphic design, photography, and packaging design.

She came to the program with lots of different interests so she took every opportunity to make sure they overlapped. A great example of this pokes through in her South Street posters which effectively combine graphic design and photography.

She tends to stick to the stylistic themes of bold colors, geometric design, and a minimalist approach. While the pieces all have their different themes, the majority of her work focuses on life in Philadelphia.

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Ivy Krell

Illustration Packaging Design Street Photography

Brookeville, MD Sherwood High School Ivy Krell was born in Montgomery County, Maryland on the 31st of August 2001.

She grew up in Montgomery County, and studies art at Sherwood high school.

She displays her work in school art shows, and in the homes of friends and family. She enjoys reading graphic novels, playing video games and watching animated television. These pastimes influence her artwork. She enjoys the sketchy comic-book style of various graphic novels like the Scott Pilgrim graphic novel series written by Bryan Lee O’Malley. She prefers to work in pen and ink to achieve the desired look of her works. She incorporates surreal and sci-fi elements into her work as well.

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Ethan Larrabee

Illustration Character Development Taxidermy as Wearable Art

Philadelphia, PA Science Leadership Academy

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Ethan Larrabee was born February 19, 2001 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Ethan attended Green Street Friends School from 2005 to 2012 before transferring to J.R. Masterman which he attended from 2012 to 2015. He is now a senior at Science Leadership Academy and currently resides with his mother and father in Philadelphia, where he rarely leaves his room. From a young age, Ethan expressed a notable interest in the arts, specifically drawing various animals with a particular preference for prehistoric life. Though he began at a young age, Ethan still has many of the same artistic weaknesses he expressed as a child. The most notable of these being his avoidance of adding color whenever possible. This fits a general trend of shying away from using permanent materials in his pieces, though he has gotten much more comfortable with inking, so there’s hope. Ethan’s main influence tends to be whichever piece of media he’s most recently enjoyed, though he has a special place for the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, the Japanese animated television show Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, and a handful of favorite webcomics.

Benjamin Lazzaro

Film Alternative Photo Digital Effects for Film + Animation

Zionsville, PA Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School Benjamin Lazzaro is an independent filmmaker and photographer from Zionsville, Pennsylvania, where he currently resides with his parents and three siblings.

He will be a rising senior attending the Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School in the upcoming school year. His filmography accomplishments include writing and directing numerous short films inspired by his own personal experiences.

Benjamin’s works are influenced by numerous TV shows, movies, and other media-based productions. Lazzaro has additionally won multiple awards for his photographic works in his school’s photography contests. Previously, he has submitted films to the Emmaus Arts Commissions’ Student Film Festivals and will continue to do so in the upcoming season.

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Kaolin Leap

Animation Character Development Figure Drawing

Runnemede, NJ Audubon Jr-Sr High School Kaolin Leap, born on April 23, 2001 is an animator, character designer, and cartoonist from South Jersey. As a child, Kaolin spent most of their time imagining different places to go and people to meet. So much so that it brought them in the direction if writing and drawing as a hobby, and eventually a goal for a career.

They are currently attending Audubon High School in Audubon New Jersey. In their art program at school, they have finished Advanced Studio II, and they are going to work in a independent study, and a portfolio class. They are currently attending private lessons with Rebecca Tait, and took the Emerging Artists School year Program with Peter Kelsey at Studio Incamminati in Philadelphia. Kaolin’s work has been shown in the Audubon Leap 2 School’s Art Show for the past three years, and the summer event Walt Fest in Laurel Springs for the past three years.

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Lamia Lopez

Painting Sculpture Industrial Design

Haddonfield, NJ Haddonfield Memorial High School Lamia Lopez was born on October 17th, 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 2D art, ceramics, metals and jewelry, and a basic intro to art class. This is usually where Lamia’s art can be seen, along with featured in her own home.

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Erin Ma

Illustration Alternative Photo Screenprinting

Philadelphia, PA Central High School Erin Ma is a fifteen year old artist who uses pencils and ink, as well as digital programs to create her art. She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in April 16, 2003. Erin’s parents are involved in art peaking her interest. She attended many art camps, art classes at museums and summer schools.

Erin’s artwork represents her strong connection to her friends and family.

She depicts the memories shared between them through cartoons such as Pooh, game characters or figments of her imagination. Her art captures the fascinations and interests of the people close to her.

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Valeria Maldonado

Game Design Character Development Digital Effects for Film + Animation

Miami, FL New World School Of The Arts Valeria Maldonado is an American-Ecuadorian game designer and illustrator who was born on February 22 of 2002. She lives in Miami, Florida and currently goes to New World School of the Arts since 2016 and is currently a rising junior there. Maldonado has recently exhibited and sold her work in the annual Coconut Grove Art Festival in 2017 and 2018.

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Tyler Marcano

Film Film Criticism Digital Effects for Film + Animation

Tobyhanna, PA Pocono Mountain W. High School Born November 20, 2001 in Brooklyn, Tyler Marcano never experienced the life his family had in the city. Soon after his birth, they migrated from city blocks to backyards and driveways. The contrast in his family versus the people he became friends with allowed for a growth in creativity and individuality. After becoming engrossed in film at a young age while bonding with his father he became fascinated by film and its function as a medium of art. His works show influence from his Puerto Rican background and urban morals instilled in him by his family.

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Harry Marshall

Game Design Character Development Digital Effects for Film + Animation

CĂ´te Saint-Luc, QuĂŠbec Bialik High School My name is Harry Marshall and I was born on June 13th 2002. I am a game design major and plan on creating narratives, stories and other ideas to implement into games of any kind. I hope to one day create a game that will be played by millions and will give people hours of entertainment and last in their minds. I am at Bialik high school in Montreal Quebec from 2014 to now. I have not had much experience with art before coming here but hope to learn a lot in my future. I have shown my work to friends and family and colleagues that I have worked with. I have not had many ideas or pieces to demonstrate before coming to UArts.

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Gloria Martinez

Photography Creative Writing Industrial Design

Hoosick Falls, NY Emma Willard School Gloria Martinez (b. 2001) is an American writer, filmmaker, and photographer who lives in Hoosick Falls, NY. She currently attends Emma Willard School in the graduating class of 2019 and plans to attend college to study English and film.

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Madeleine Maule

Illustration Jewelry + Metals Screenprinting

Woodbury, NJ Woodbury High School Madeleine Maule is an artist from New Jersey. She is currently in Woodbury Senior High School, where she gets college credits for going to Rowan College of Gloucester County as well as taking multiple AP courses. She was born on August 29, 2002, and shows her work while taking commissions.

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Jessica Medenecki

Illustration Creative Writing Drawing

Levittown, PA Reach Cyber Charter School Having attended Connections Academy for two years, Jessica Medenecki is a sixteen-year-old Pennsylvanian aspiring for a long-lasting career in illustration.

She resides with her mother, cat, and abundance of art supplies that she’s collected over the years. Art has been a passion of hers since early childhood; in fact, her earliest childhood memories include sketching and painting on the walls. She is currently on the path to becoming a full-time illustrator and artist, a career in which she's dreamt of pursuing since her young wall sketch years.

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Priya Mistri

Painting Alternative Painting Figure Drawing

West. Hartford, CT William Hall High School Priya Mistri (B. 2001) is an American artist, living in Connecticut. Fine arts continuously impacts her home and school life; she has taken several art courses, striving to further explore interests in the art world. In the fall of 2019, she aspires to attend art school to receive her BFA.

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Daniela Montes de Oca

Illustration Character Development Figure Drawing

Miami, FL Our Lady Lourdes Academy Born Janurary 14, 2001, Daniela Montes De Oca had always had a passion for drawing even before she could speak. She is an Cuban American artist that lives and probably will work in Miami, Florida. She never had attended into a Liberal Arts high school or college but has been accepted into pre-college programs hosted by Savannah Academy of Art and Design in Georgia (Summer of 2017), and The University of The Arts in Philadelphia (Summer of 2018). When she was a Junior at Our Lady of Lourdes Academy, she won first place of Tropical Fairchild’s “Create a Flower and Pollinator Challenge” in order to spread awareness of the decline of bees throughout the world. This work will also be featured in Blick’s advertisements for about a year.

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Amelia Narducci

Graphic Design Alternative Painting Figure Drawing

Glen Mills, PA Garnet Valley High School Born on April 14th, 2001, Amelia Narducci is a young artist from Delaware County in the suburbs of Philadelphia. Amelia grew up taking as many art classes as possible at Garnet Valley high school. With the help of her art teachers at school, Amelia has been able to display her works in Garnet Valley’s annual Celebration of the Arts for many years, as well as in art exhibitions at Darlington Arts Center, Delaware County Community College, and Pennsylvania’s Department of Education in Harrisburg.

Amelia connected with the artists in her community by joining National Arts Honor Society, Art club, photography club, and drama club. She even took dance classes to expand her artistic understanding beyond the easel. She will graduate in the summer of 2019 with the hopes of pursuing an artistic career.

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Elias Nathan

Graphic Design Packaging Design Street Photography

Princeton, NJ Princeton High School Eli Nathan is a graphic designer and photographer from Princeton, New Jersey and a rising senior at Princeton High School. He is heavily influenced by the world around him and creates artwork at the intersection of politics, culture, and sports.

Nathan is inspired by Paula Scher for her innovative use of typography. His work aims to blur the line between promotion and art, manipulating type, color, and layout to elevate the message he wishes to convey. He strives to bring a cohesive visual language to all of his projects. He has received a Gold Key and two Silver Keys from the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards and has had his work on display in the Montclair Art Museum and the Arts Council of Princeton.

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Andrew O'Connor

Photography Alternative Photo Street Photography

Collingswood, NJ Haddon Township High School Andrew O’Connor (B. 2000) is an American photographer who works mainly in his hometown but aches to stretch outside those boundaries. He currently attends Haddon Township High School and has attended Maine Media for a week long college program.

His work was shown alongside others in his class at Maine Media, as well as a small art show in his school. He was also featured in the front page of The Retrospect a small paper from the neighboring town of Collingswood.

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Sandrina Penn

Film Creative Writing Digital Effects for Film + Animation

Atlantic City, NJ Atlantic City High School Sandrina Penn was born on September 13, 2001. She grew up in Atlantic City, New Jersey, attends Atlantic City High School, and comes from a family of artists. Penn is a filmmaker, writer, actress, musician, singer, and dancer. Her most recent project was editing the award-winning short film “We Are Actors�, which featured Special Needs actors and was screened at the 2017 Atlantic City Cinefest. She hopes to attend a University where she can pursue her goal in filmmaking: to spread joy.

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Jacob Perez

Film Creative Writing Digital Effects for Film + Animation

Moorestown, NJ Moorestown High School Jacob Perez’s primary art form is film. Perez has always been interested in movies and how they are made. He does this by creating a pitch to get down all the ideas.

Then he forms these ideas into a script and revises it a few times, then he tries to make the script unique and different than other films. After the script is done, he creates a production plan to organize how he will make the short film. Once both the script and production plans are created, he films the video. Finally, he edits and exports the film through Adobe Premiere Pro. Jacob Perez was born in South Jersey to Jessie Moats and Michael Perez on August 10th, 2001. He currently lives in Moorestown, New Jersey and now has an amazing younger brother that he loves so much. His favorite part of film is writing scripts, but he also has a very interested in music as he plays guitar and bass. Film and music will both be a huge part of his future career.

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Leon Price

Animation Alternative Painting Drawing

Wilmington, DE Alexis I. Du Pont High School Leon Price was born on December 11th, 2000, in Wilmington Delaware. At first, he didn’t like art at all. He thought it was boring and pointless. In his younger years, he played a lot of football and focused on sports. At the age of ten, he took an art class and he wasn’t really liking the class at all at first. However, as time passes he started to enjoy the class because the teacher saw something in Leon and encouraged him to draw every day. That point on Leon became an amateur artist and started to enjoy art and its background.

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Christie Pyanoe

Illustration Jewelry + Metals Sketchbooks: Experiments + Field Notes

Belmar, NJ Wall High School Christie Pyanoe an aspiring illustrator and writer born and raised in Belmar, New Jersey. This rising senior at Wall High School enjoys the extensive art classes provided to her; such as Art Experimentation and Jewelry. Christie Pyanoe was first intrigued by illustration from the artist Esao Andrews’ work. Pyanoe’s artistic style is similar to that of the Illustrator Ralph Steadman, with its somewhat abstract and busy concepts. Ralph Steadman is most known for his artworks for books by Hunter S. Thomas― who happens to be Christie Pyanoe’s inspiration for writing. She uses illustration as creative inspiration for writing. Pyanoe’s goal is to be a traveling journalist, while continuing to practice illustration on the side.

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Miglė Railaitė

Graphic Design Packaging Design Industrial Design

Vilnius, Lithuania Vilnius International School Miglė Railaitė (B. 2001) resides in Lithuania and has a passion for travel; her works portray the constant changes of environment and are inspired by the artist’s dynamic life and experiences. Miglė is a rising junior in Bradfield College in the United Kingdom, having studied in the Vilnius International School prior to her transfer to the UK. Miglė Railaitė’s works are often compositions of chaos and harmony, representing her life experiences of inner battles and search for self. As a reflection of her dynamic personality, Miglė loves to experiment with media and styles, but has recently been drawn to graphic and digital art, as well as functional art and aesthetic pieces.

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Miglė’s works have been exhibited in the Vilnius International School, American International School of Vilnius, as well as Mokytojų Namai educational institution and Vienožinskio School of Art.

Ana Robles

Graphic Design Jewelry + Metals Sketchbooks: Experiments + Field Notes

Miami, FL Design and Architecture Senior High Ana J. Robles was born on March 12, 2001 in Miami, Florida. She began drawing in the first grade, when she volunteered to make cards for her mother, who was ill at the time. Her mother was her muse. This caught her primary school teacher’s attention. Ana was encouraged by her educators to pursue her skill. She was admitted into Design and Architecture Senior High. There, she learned to properly express herself through her artwork. More recently, during the summer of 2018, Ana has had the opportunity to meet college representatives as they view her work, further preparing her for university.

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Catherine Roser

Painting Jewelry + Metals Industrial Design

Merion Station, PA Lower Merion High School Catherine Roser was born in Lower Merion on March 27, 2003. Her family shares strong interests in the arts, with her older sister and parents enjoying painting, textiles, and drawing. Catherine is a rising sophomore at Lower Merion High School, where she participates in theater crews, the Technology Student Association, and plays trumpet in the band. In school and weekend classes, Catherine has worked on sewing, metalworking, and ceramics. At home, she enjoys various book arts such as origami, quilling, and making sculptures out of paper. Usually rather introverted and cautious in life, she is always willing to go beyond her comfort zone in the arts and try new types of crafts or media.

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Raevyn Ruano

Game Design Alternative Painting Drawing

Philadelphia, PA Hackensack High School Raevyn Ruano (2001) is a genderfluid American mixed race teenager who lives in New Jersey but frequently visits Philadelphia. He is completing his senior year of high school this year and plans to attend art college in Philadelphia.

Some of his paintings have been bought and hung on household walls. Some are also shown in his high school’s annual art show. However, most of his work remains at home and is posted online for more people to see and critique his pieces.

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Kelly Saylor

Photography Alternative Photo Sketchbooks: Experiments + Field Notes

State College, PA State College Area Senior High School Growing up in a small town can become restricting yet liberating. Born in State College PA, on the 17th of August 2001, Kelly always wanted to find a personal way of expression. She was a child from a big family consisting originally 3 other children, soon growing into a lot more children. And by the age of fourteen, she realized an interest in photography. Growing up in a big family forced her to try to stick out. Art was a way to be appreciated and valued for a talent that not everyone has. Being in a small town also influenced her art, it’s easy to be drowned with boredom, but art was always so a way to express and entertain herself. She is going into 11th grade at State College Area High School, and never had an opportunity to show her work until now.

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Frederick Schachinger Haverford, PA Harriton High School

Animation Film Criticism Digital Effects for Film + Animation

My name is Fred Schachinger and I am from Phoenixville, PA. I am 16 years old.

I am majoring in Animation this summer, as I want to learn how to bring my drawings and filmmaking ideas to life. My interest in the arts is focused on animation, as I enjoy the art of live action films, but making them is always more frustrating than it needs to be for me. My ideas are never fully captured. I’ve found that in animation, the possibilities are endless, and you can literally draw the exact image in your head. My goal as an artist is to create visually interesting films that are not over the top and have a simple message that people can relate to and hopefully appreciate.

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Evelyn Shih

Animation Creative Writing Digital Effects for Film + Animation

Vienna, VA George C. Marshall High School Evelyn Shih, born in 2000, is a Chinese-American who lives in Vienna, Virginia, a suburban area of Washington D.C. She has been inspired by comics, animations, and primarily story-based video games since her childhood, and this is made evident through her simplistic art style and designs, which has the intention of telling stories rather than being standalone works of art. She is currently a rising senior at George C. Marshall High School in Falls Church, Virginia, and will graduate in 2019.

Shih generally exhibits her work online on websites like DeviantArt, and has also had work displayed in the final exhibition at the 2017 RISD Pre-College Program.

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Jenny Sim

Graphic Design Packaging Design Industrial Design

Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia High School Girls In the city of brotherly love, there lives a Cambodian-Chinese Philadelphian named Jenny Sim. There are many untold stories of this young, ordinary girl who grew up with a very creative aspect towards life. Being the middle child of four other siblings, she realizes how artistically involved she is compared to them. She enjoys designing and digitally creating artwork through programs such as Adobe Photoshop and After Effects. Her artwork really defines her as a person because they are very simple but usually have deeper meanings beyond its visuals.

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Cassandra Siniscalco Flemington, NJ Hunterdon Central High School

Illustration Character Development Sketchbooks: Experiments + Field Notes

Cassandra Siniscalco was born (b. 2002) in Hunterdon County New Jersey and has lived there her entire life, and is currently a rising junior at Hunterdon Central Regional High School. Cassandra has spent her entire life being inspired by art and has always been drawing. She developed a love for a very cartoon-like style when she was younger and has always incorporated very unrealistic exaggerations in her artwork. Even though Cassandra prefers her own work to be illustrations rather than animations a large amount of her influences come from animation artists. Other than art Cassandra enjoys playing video games, taking care of her two cats, and taking a nap.

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Gillian Smalley

Photography Alternative Painting Figure Drawing

West Grove, PA Avon Grove Charter School Gillian Smalley, born in 2001, is a rising senior at Avon Grove Charter School in West Grove, PA. She has been at AGCS since kindergarten and never left.

Beginning in high school, Smalley has taken art classes such as, Photography I, Ceramics I, Digital Art I, Marketing Design, Drawing I, 2D Studio Art, and Portfolio Development. As a senior she will be taking Drawing II and AP Studio Art. In her sophomore year, along with digital art and marketing design, she did an independent study with her art teacher and mentor Andrew Barber. She would go to his art room everyday and she learned what he was teaching in his other classes.

She has had artwork in Charter’s art show every year since 3rd grade. As a highschooler she has had multiple art pieces in each show including a mural in the school’s outdoor classroom and an oversized Adirondack chair that she designed and painted. Mediums she works with include acrylic paint, watercolor paint, graphite, ink, photography, and clay.

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Mica Squillace

Animation Character Development Figure Drawing

Bethlehem, PA Ridley Senior High School Mica Squillace is a seventeen year-old artist who was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and has then since moved around the state. They currently attend Ridley High School in Folsom, Pennsylvania, and are a rising senior. Squillace’s focus lies in expressing their own stories through animation and digital art, but they also have developed their artwork in watercolors, markers, and other traditional mediums. However, they also like to create work inspired by what cannot be seen in the real world. Their art consists of an arrangement of vibrant colors, round shapes, unique character designs, and fantasy-esque stories. They use this style and these elements to create simple, but not minimal, subjects and sceneries that come to life in the viewer’s eyes.

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Their artwork has recently been exhibited in Ridley High School’s annual art show, Delaware County Community College’s art gallery in 2017, and is soon be shown in the University of the Arts Pre-College Summer Institute’s closing show on August 3rd, 2018. Outside of events, their art can be found on various social media such as Instagram and Tumblr.

Jeanna Stedman

Graphic Design Alternative Painting Drawing

Philadelphia, PA Agora Cyber Charter School Jeanna Stedman is a teenage artist born in 2001. As a creative person, Jeanna relies on artistic outlets to express herself in many ways. She often looks to her inventive side to push boundaries and inspire new ideas in her artwork. Attending an online high school, Agora Cyber Charter, since sophomore year, Jeanna enjoys spending her free time experimenting with and developing her art.

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Kasey Taffe

Animation Character Development Screenprinting

Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia High School Girls My name is Kasey Taffe, and my pieces mainly focus on humanoid creatures.

These are usually drawn in one of two ways; simplistic with colorful outlines and colored in with a singular color (a lighter version of said outline), and detailed work, with multiple colors and dark outlines. Most of my pieces are usually made digitally, using my finger to draw on my iPad, but occasionally I use sketchbooks to house my art, colored pencils being my go-to coloring utensil. If I choose to tell a story through my art, it is most likely an event that took place in whatever character I draw’s life. I incorporate this story through either fitting song lyrics, vague symbolism, or comic book-esque paneling.

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I was born December 4th, 2001, and live in northeast Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with my mother, grandmother and our wide array of pets. Growing up, I was obsessed with cartoons (as most children did), and it’s influenced my style very obviously, with thick lineart, rounded edges, and exaggerated features. I go to school at the Philadelphia High School for Girls.

Jaedyn Taylor

Photography Alternative Photo Street Photography

Takoma Park, MD Montgomery Blair High School Jaedyn Taylor, is a 17-year-old photographer born and raised in Takoma Park Maryland. He is a rising senior at Montgomery Blair High School. He is soon to be the head photographer of his school yearbook. His interests consist of fashion, music, and photography. Taylor's artwork is primarily people oriented as he is a portrait photographer. He captures people's’ personalities and projects a somewhat "dream – like" quality to his photographs. His photos have been featured consistently in his school’s yearbook and has more ambitious projects coming soon.

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Anabella Trucco

Photography Alternative Photo Street Photography

Basking Ridge, NJ Ridge High School Bella Trucco (B. 2001) is a sixteen year old visual artist and photographer based in New Jersey. She attends Ridge High School as a member of the class of 2019, where she pursues art further through photography courses beginning in 2016.

She is Chilean-American with a strong tie to her Italian heritage, leading her to explore themes and motifs surrounding the complexities of ancestry and tradition.

Trucco focuses on concepts such as femininity, adolescence, superficiality and mortality to further her understanding of patterns within human nature. She has exhibited her work in her school’s Annual Art Show, the Mount Olive High School Art Exhibition, and the Pingry Photography Exhibition of New Jersey.

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Sophia Washburn

Photography Packaging Design Screenprinting

Pittsboro, NC Northwood High School Sophia Washburn (B. 2000) is a rising senior in the small town of Pittsboro, North Carolina. Since birth, Sophia has been exposed to a creative way of life and thinking due to both of her parents’ involvement in the study of art. Her mother, a biologist and teacher, also raised her with a keen awareness and appreciation of the natural world. Throughout her adolescence, she has experimented with mediums such as photography, printmaking, drawing and painting, graphic design, bookmaking, and more. After going through a traumatic experience her sophomore year, she began to use art as a way to process internal struggles and to express her opinions.

Because of her active involvement in National Art Honors Society and Photography Society, she had many opportunities to enter competitions and display her work at local facilities. During her Junior year, she won first place in the Barnard College Photography competition and received a bronze medal in the Scholastic art competition. Sophia’s passion for photography was sparked when she was given a camera when she was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes at age 10.

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Julian Wiggins

Illustration Creative Writing Digital Effects for Film + Animation

Moorestown, NJ Moorestown High School Hi my name is Julian Wiggins. I was born on August 5th 2002. I enjoy doing my own comics for fun, and I also enjoy sci-fi movies such as Star Wars. I’ve have been interested in comics/super heroes, since I was 2. I watched tv and paused it to draw characters of a show that I liked. I believe identity is important to my work because when you include your personality in your work, it makes it 10x as interesting. I go to school in Moorestown NJ. I go back to school on September 8th. I have shown my work on many social media platforms. Such as, Youtube, Instagram, Snapchat, and Facebook.

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Lauren Williams

Animation Creative Writing Drawing

Wilmington, DE Cab Calloway School of the Arts Lauren Williams was born on August 6th, 2002 and is an aspiring artist, animator, and writer. For the first ten years of her life she grew up in Pennsville, New Jersey until she and her family moved to Wilmington, Delaware in hopes of her going to an art school known as Cab Calloway: School of the Arts. She got accepted into the school as a Visual Arts major and has been there since the 6th grade.

Some of her work has been shown at the Delaware Art Museum as part of her school’s exhibition.

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Lucas Woelk

Illustration Alternative Painting Figure Drawing

Sag Harbor, NY Pierson High School Lucas Woelk is a sixteen-year-old multimedia artist from Long Island, New York.

He attends Pierson High School as a senior. He works mainly in abstraction and portraitism, specializing in the use of watercolour and acrylic paints, as well as collage. He uses art as a way to portray difficult emotions, such as vulnerability and self-doubt. Woelk draws inspiration from his own life experiences and that of the people around him. He aspires to share his works with as many people as possible through a career in illustration.

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Beatrice Woodward

Illustration Sculpture Screenprinting

Phoenixville, PA Conestoga High School Beatrice Woodward (B. 2000) is an artist from Pennsylvania. She has been drawing and painting ever since she was young and always knew that her future was destined to be in the arts. She loves to capture the weird and whimsical and find new perspectives through her art, whether it is by having a modern take on a topic or attempting to go against expectations. The main subjects of her art often vary but are all inspired by her years of watching cartoons and reading comics. She is currently attending Conestoga High School and has participated in other precollege programs at the Rhode Island School of Design (2017) and the New York Film Academy (2016). Her work has been shown in a few local shows as well as shows at the previously mentioned pre-colleges.

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Faculty Mahalia Agustines

Veronica Cianfrano

Graphic Design

Painting

BFA The University of the Arts Graphic Design

BS ‘08 Southern Connecticut State University Studio Art

Alexis Apfelbaum Creative Writing

MFA ‘10 The University of the Arts Painting

MFA ‘10 Rutgers University-Camden Creative Writing

Jason Corbett

BFA ‘09 Temple University English

Beth Beverly Taxidermy as Wearable Art PRE-COLLEGE SUMMER INSTITUTE 2018

BFA ‘00 Tyler School of Art, Temple University Metals 2010 Pocono Institute of Taxidermy

Game Design BFA ‘15 The University of the Arts Design, Art + Technology

Robert Curry Film Criticism BFA ‘11 The University of the Arts Film & Video Production

Molly Egan

Animation, Digital Effects For Film + Animation

Illustration, Sketchbooks: Experiments + Field Notes

BFA ‘88 The University of the Arts Animation

BFA ‘15 The University of the Arts Illustration

MFA ‘91 California Institute of the Arts Experimental Animation

Christopher Fernando

Lowell Boston

Film

Anthony Bowers Sculpture, Drawing BFA ‘07 Indiana University Painting MFA ‘14 The University of Pennsylvania Interdisciplinary Arts

Barrett Capistran Screenprinting BFA ‘18 The University of the Arts

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BS ‘05 San Diego State University Television, Film and New Media MFA ‘13 Temple University

Michael George Digital Effects for Film + Animation BFA ‘06 Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University Art/Computer Animation

Joseph Hocker

Christian Patchell

Photography

Illustration, Character Development: Illustration

BFA ‘11 The University of the Arts Photography MFA ‘14 Tyler School of Art, Temple University Photography

Anuja Kapri Packaging Design, Industrial Design BS ‘17 Drexel University Finance, International Business, and Design and Merchandising

BFA ‘95 The University of the Arts Illustration

Sarah Pater Figure Drawing BFA ’09 Boston University, Painting MFA ‘16 Rhode Island School of Design Painting

Paul Rouphail

MDes ‘19 The University of the Arts Product Design

Critical Studies

Kaitlin Kerr

MFA ‘16 Rhode Island School of Design Painting

BFA ‘09 University of the Arts Jewelry + Metals

Adam Lovitz Alternative Painting, Advanced Drawing BFA ‘08 University of Delaware Studio Art/Painting

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Jewelry + Small Metals

BFA ‘10 Carnegie Mellon University

MFA ‘12 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Studio Art

Sheila Master Alternative Photo, Street Photography BFA ‘05 The University of the Arts Photography

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Teaching Assistants Mark Addison

Alexandra Smith

Critical Studies

Illustration, Character Development

Tori Canning Screenprinting

Jamie Stow

Monica DeDomenico

Critical Studies, Alternative Photo, Street Photography

Critical Studies, Industrial Design, Packaging Design

Diana Grater

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Sonya McCormick

Graphic Design

Jewelry + Metals

Alyssa Winscom Julia Pilkus Photography

Maya Pirulli Animation

Critical Studies, Figure Drawing

Pre-College Programs 320 S. Broad Street Philadelphia, PA 19102 Email precollege@uarts.edu Phone 215.717.6430 Web uarts.edu/summerinstitute