Student News 2008-09
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Congratulations 1st & 3rd Place Awards in the St. Louis
Multicultural Task Force "Erasing Boundaries Through Diversity" Poster
Contest
Congratulations
to Madelina Nunez, grade 10, who won the 1st place prize of a $200
savings bond in the St. Louis Multicultural Task Force’s “Erasing
Boundaries Through Diversity” Photo & Poster Contest. Melissa
Wilson, grade 9, is also recognized as the
3rd place prize winner of a $50 savings bond in the same contest. Both
students will be recognized at an Awards Ceremony starting at 3pm on Sunday, May 17, 2009 at the Portfolio Gallery, 3514 Delmar Blvd. St. Louis, MO. The public is invited to attend! Click here to see all the entries (posted on 4/22/09).Kirkwood Art Student will be Showing their art for Youth Art Month in March
Congratulations to Michael Killeen, grade 11, for his "Kirkwood Logo" design in colored pencil, and Caroline Fleisher, grade 9, for her pencil self-portrait titled, "Don't Take My Picture." Their artwork was selected to represent Kirkwood High School in the Missouri Art Education Association's "Youth Art Month Capitol Exhibit" in Jefferson City. These students represent the quality of visual art education statewide and showcase visual art programs throughout schools, districts, and communities in Missouri! The 2009 YAM Capitol Exhibit will be held Saturday, March 7th through Saturday, March 14th, on the 3rd floor Rotunda area of the Capitol building. On Tuesday, March 10th, all entrants and their families are invited to attend the Youth Art Month Capitol Exhibit Awards and Recognition Ceremony at the Missouri State Capitol, in the first floor rotunda area, beginning at 10:00 am. (posted 2/5/09) Visit the exhibit online (posted 2/21/09)
Congratulations MO Fine Art Academy Award Recipient's!
Three Kirkwood High School Juniors were accepted into the prestigious 2009 Missouri Fine Arts Academy. The Fine Arts Academy is a program for rising high school juniors and seniors who are talented in the arts areas of music, visual, arts, theatre, or dance. It is a three-week residential program held on the campus of Missouri State University in Springfield during the month of June. The students are: Jacob Bubb – Instrumental Music, Kate Fitzgerald – Theatre, and Tanya Foster – Visual Arts. (posted 2/5/09)
GRAPHIC DESIGN STUDENTS PARTICIPATE IN A LIVE VIDEO CONFERENCE FOR HEC-TV
Graphic Design students participated in a live video conference on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 titled "Media Literacy: Advertising Then and Now." The conference was hosted by HEC-TV (cable television) and the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum on Washington University's Campus. It was a unique experience using live interactive video feed while staff from the Kemper Musuem facilitated questions and interaction with their current exhibit "Birth of the Cool: California Art Design, and Culture at Midcentury." Kirkwood students interacted live with curators from the Kemper Art Museum, two schools from Texas, and one school from Pennsylvania.
Not only were Graphic Design students able to participate in the video conference, but Kirkwood was chosen for an interview and taped for the HEC-TV's program "Behind the Minds" that will air in November with reruns. Nancy Pasturnack, a reporter, and her camera crew conducted interviews and took video of our Graphic Design class working on their poster projects before and during the conference. Students featured in the reporter's interview were Jay Frick, grade 10, and Tanya Foster, grade 11. The "Behind the Minds" cable television program will also be a part of "On Demand" programming and will be posted on the HEC-TV.org website.
The Kemper Museum's "Birth of Cool" exhibit is free to the public and located on the campus of Washington University from September 19, 2008 thru January 5, 2009. More information and hours of operation can be found at kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu (posted 10/17/08).
