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Bison sculpture now grazing on more traditional pasture
McCOOK, Neb. — The landscaping around the beloved bison sculpture resting in front of the Carnegie Library of the High Plains Museum got an upgrade Thursday afternoon and is going back to the bison’s roots, both literally and metaphorically. The project was completed by the Pheasants Forever group, which aims to conserve wildlife through habitat improvements and other advocacy. …
Homage to the (town) square: Welcome to Buffalo AKG
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- IMAGE COURTESY THE BUFFALO AKG ART MUSEUM
- The new Jeffrey E. Gundlach Building, seen here in the foreground of a rendering, expands the Buffalo AKG’s exhibition space to more than 50,000 square feet, and is part of the museum’s $230 million expansion.
Known until recently as the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo’s most major art museum was founded during the Civil War in 1862. Today, it’s the 6th oldest public art institution in the United States and is on the cutting edge of contemporary museum culture.
Poised to reopen on June 12 after a four-year, $230 million expansion and renovation, the freshly dubbed Buffalo AKG Art Museum now houses more than 50,000 square feet of state-of-the-art exhibition space, five classroom studios, a public gathering space with a major sculptural commission, underground parking, and more than half an acre of public green space at its 1285 Elmwood Ave. campus.
And all that extra room means the ability to pull work out from the vaults into the gallery lights.
AKG Director Janne Sirén said in years past, the museum was able to show roughly 130 works from the collection at any given time.
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- PHOTO COURTESY THE BUFFALO AKG ART MUSEUM
- Household-name contemporary artists fill the collection at AKG—and post-expansion, more of the work can be displayed. Pictured is a selection of that work in the historic and newly renovated Wilmers Building.
“Now when our visitors come on opening day and thereafter, they will be able to see more than 400 works,” he said.
Everything about the museum’s new design, additions and recent acquisitions serves a central concern that preoccupies museums and major galleries as they shift fully into the 21st century: inclusion.
Entertaining largely white, well-off people who politely encounter high culture, museums have long needed to become open, interactive creative hubs and expand their collections of artistic voices to reflect a wider range of human experiences. The only alternative is to fade from relevance.
Now, at 161 years old, Buffalo AKG is poised to grow with generations far into the future.
INCREASING VISIBILITY AND ACCESS
A key word for the museum’s new identity is “porous.”
Major characteristics of the new building and renovations to the older ones promote visual communication between the museum’s interior and the outside world.
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- PHOTO COURTESY THE BUFFALO AKG ART MUSEUM
- Old meets new: The Gundlach Building at right, with a skyway that connects to the museum’s renovated older buildings.
“Effectively, it’s a way of pulling down that barrier that separates the museum from what lies beyond the museum,” Sirén said.
Designed by Shohei Shigematsu of the New York firm Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) and New York firm Cooper Robertson, the new Jeffrey E. Gundlach Building is a glittering, glass-walled tower wrapped around a central, walled exhibition space that will keep the art safe from sunlight exposure. But visitors inside the halls and common spaces of the structure–as well as the serpentine glass skyway that connects the buildings–will be visible from street level, and they’ll be able to see the campus and bustling streets from inside the building. Some indoor sculptures will also be visible through the glass façade.
“Art museums have historically been somewhat, let’s say, inaccessible—even just visually, castles on a hill,” Sirén said. “They’ve protruded this sense of inaccessibility, perhaps even elitism. So the challenge we gave to our architect and his team was a building that communicates with its public, with the surrounding environment, with the city, with the community.”
An entire wing of the museum will be free to visitors year-round. Museum leadership hopes the renovated Seymour H. Knox Building—and especially its new, central Town Square space—will be used by the public as a place to rest, eat lunch, and socialize.
Major structural changes to the Town Square’s ceiling, floors and walls were required to convert the 6,000-square-foot center from an outdoor courtyard and sculpture garden into a weather-tight room that would support the Knox building’s anchor artwork.
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- IMAGE COURTESY THE BUFFALO AKG ART MUSEUM
- “Common Sky” is the anchor artwork in the renovated Knox Building. Comprising the ceiling and funneling to the floor of the Town Square space, the artwork creates an indoor-outdoor tension.
That work, “Common Sky,” is a several-ton, site-specific sculpture designed by renowned Icelandic-Danish installation artist Olafur Eliasson and Sebastian Behmann of Studio Other Spaces, and it’s in line with the AKG’s new transparent aesthetic. Heavy as it is, the work seems to float above the square—where performances, readings, and other events will be presented.
Overhead, dozens of mirrored and clear glass triangles serve as both reflections of the activity below and windows to the sky. Together, the panels funnel into a hollow column, also made of glass, reaching the floor. The sculpture doubles as a memorial to the apple tree that stood in the courtyard for decades. Its hollow, glass trunk (and drainage system under the floor), will bring the sky down “into” the space as it rains or snows.
“It allows us to be close to the elements even though the space is enclosed,” Sirén said.
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- IMAGE COURTESY THE BUFFALO AKG ART MUSEUM
- A rendering of “Common Sky” in the new Town Square space of the renovated Knox Building.
The Town Square is flanked by a cafe called Cornelia—named for Cornelia Bentley Sage Quinton, the museum’s second director and the first woman director of a major art museum in the United States—and the Creative Commons, an accessible, multi-generational learning space that’s the result of the first ever philanthropic partnership between the LEGO Foundation and a fine art museum.
“That’s a space where children of all ages, whether they are one or 90, can engage in various different types of activities and learn through the act of play,” Sirén said.
The Creative Commons will host hands-on creative learning opportunities and connections with museum collections. Each of the five new classroom studios has a specific programming focus, including a studio for children and their caregivers, and studios equipped with tools for making with different media.
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- IMAGE COURTESY THE BUFFALO AKG ART MUSEUM
- A rendering of the Creative Commons, created in partnership with the LEGO Foundation, at the renovated Knox Building at Buffalo AKG.
The museum’s programming features inclusive engagement considerations, such as the multi sensory tours for people who are blind or have low vision, tours in partnership with Alzheimer’s Association of WNY, and an access program to support under-resourced groups and organizations working with people with disabilities.
REPRESENTATION IN THE COLLECTION AND PROGRAMMING
For any art lover, a stroll through the museum’s halls will yield an unending sequence of excited recognition. The walls are lined with important contemporary masterworks seemingly plucked from a survey of contemporary Western Art textbook, and more often than not they are the actual paintings, sculptures, and assemblages used in the textbooks as iconic representatives of an art genre or movement.
That includes Paul Gauguin’s “Yellow Christ,” and masterworks by Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol, Clifford Still—too many cannon artists fill the collection to do it justice in a line or two.
The AKG has recently begun collecting more art from historically underrepresented demographics, with an emphasis on work made by living artists of color. Notably, the museum was early in acquiring art by African Americans—including sculptor Richard Hunt and painter Horace Pippin—while they were working artists in the 1940s and ’50s. But it was also guilty of the same institutional biases that have shaped museum collections for generations.
“What was on our walls was primarily by white men in the past,” Sirén said. “And as we look at the art world of today, it is not solely populated by white men—however, revolutionary and radical they may have been, or might still be in some instances—they are women artists, artists representing different ethnic groups, different nationalities, different linguistic groups, different sexual orientations. All of these artists are in the mix of our work today.”
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- PHOTO COURTESY THE BUFFALO AKG ART MUSEUM
- Installation view of Lap-See Sam’s “Dreamers’ Quay,” on display at Buffalo AKG.
After the museum reopens, its inaugural exhibitions will include “Dreamers’ Quay,” an immersive multi-channel video installation by Lap-See Sam, a Swedish artist of the Chinese diaspora, in the Gundlach Building’s Ronnen Glass Box Theater. It will also debut a site-specific artwork commissioned from Dominican artist Firelei Báez: a 30-foot-long mosaic based on an Afrofuturist myth about women cast overboard in the Middle Passage thriving underwater, titled “Chorus of the Deep (something ephemeral and beautifully whole, when seen from the edge of one’s vision, too full when taken head on).”
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- PHOTO COURTESY THE BUFFALO AKG ART MUSEUM
- Artist Firelei Báez works on a 30-foot-long site-specific mosaic commissioned by Buffalo AKG and installed in the Knox Building.
In recent years the museum has more aggressively collected works by Black, Latino, and Indigenous artists, including Niagara Falls-based artist Jay Carrier (Onondaga/Tuscarora).
Carrier’s painting “The Hand of the Devil Was Warm in the Night” came to the AKG’s collection in 2022. It’s a mixed media work of an Indigenous man with headdress regalia with a title drawn from U2’s song “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For”—a reflection of Carrier’s change of heart when he started the painting in 1985. He was then enrolled as a BFA student in Santa Fe, painting what he describes as “reductive” native imagery for the local tourists market.
“I didn’t really feel good about selling them,” he said. “So I kind of changed my philosophy and perspective, how I wanted to represent myself as an artist, slash Native American artist.”
Carrier reworked the painting, which he said represents a pivot in both his style and meditations on identity. He said he’s proud that it’s part of a major contemporary collection today.
“Inroads are being made,” Carrier said, regarding museum representation of Indigenous fine artists. “But it comes in waves.”
A LIVING COLLECTION AND ITS COMMUNITY
The museum has more than doubled in size, but its growth can be measured in other ways. Under Sirén’s decade-long stewardship, its operating budget went from $6.7 million to $17 million. Full time museum staff increased from 62 to 150.
Sirén also launched the museum’s Public Art Initiative, its partnership with local government bodies and private businesses to support and install murals and sculptures throughout the city, spreading art to where more people live, work, and play.
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- PHOTO COURTESY THE BUFFALO AKG ART MUSEUM
- Buffalo AKG director Janne Sirén.
After fundraising began for the expansion and renovation in 2016, the museum staff and architects conducted two years of town hall meetings to solicit input on what the community wanted to see.
Engaging audiences is a Sisyphean task, but one that the Buffalo AKG is up for, Sirén said.
When he became director in 2013, he was surprised to learn that more than 50-percent of the museum’s visitors were under 35—a remarkable statistic for a North American art museum, he said. For that he partially credits the museum’s longstanding efforts to expand representation in its collection and listen to what the public wants.
“I think that there’s something sort of in the DNA of the museum—being on the cutting edge, being revolutionary for the sake of being revolutionary—I think it’s been easier for us to pivot our collecting power,” Sirén said. “It hasn’t been a challenge for us to be courageous once again, and expand the philosophical breadth and content of our collection to include and really foreground artists that previously may have been marginalized.”
Following the museum’s opening celebration and ribbon cutting on Monday, June 12, Buffalo AKG will host an opening weekend Thursday, June 15 to Sunday, June 18, featuring free admission to the whole campus, performances and activities. Visit buffaloakg.org for details.
EXTRA, EXTRA:
The museum’s new half-acre Great Lawn and other surrounding green spaces will get some use this summer as visitors gather for free, open-air musical performances on the lawn and on the museum’s stone steps facing Olmstead’s Delaware Park and Hoyt Lake.
At 7 p.m. on Sunday, July 16, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra will give a free concert on the Great Lawn.
The Lipsey Summer Jazz at Delaware Stairs series takes place on Sundays from July 23 through Aug. 13, and the chronological lineup is Silver Serenade: The Horace Silver Project (a quintet tribute to Silver’s lesser works); singer-saxophonist Camille Thurman with George Caldwell and Friends; singer Heather Bambrick with trumpeter Chase Sanborn; and The Buffalo Jazz Composers Workshop ensemble of composers and performers.
More details at buffaloakg.org.
Rebecca Rafferty is an arts writer for CITY. She can be reached at [email protected].
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CCHA, Barns receive $6K in state grants toward marketing efforts
BERRYVILLE — The Virginia Tourism Corp. (VTC) has awarded two local organizations $6,254 in grants to help publicize upcoming cultural programs.
The Clarke County Historical Association (CCHA) will use its $5,104 toward marketing expenses for its Art at the Mill sale in the fall. Barns of Rose Hill, meanwhile, will use its $1,150 grant to generate interest in its Dinner and a Show concert series this summer.
Now in its 32nd year, Art at the Mill is the association’s main fundraiser. It’s held each spring and fall at the historic Burwell-Morgan Mill in Millwood. Hundreds of works of art created by regional artists typically are displayed and sold during the event.
CCHA Executive Director Nathan Stalvey said the most recent sale, held in late April and early May, was one of the best ever. Several thousand people attended, and more than 400 of the approximately 1,000 works of art on display were sold, he said.
Attendance was “definitely a little bit higher than (at sales) in past years,” Stalvey said. He speculated that tying promotions into the recent Historic Garden Club Week tours “helped to bring in a big audience.”
With the VTC grant, he continued, “we can really get the word out” about the fall sale, scheduled for Sept. 23 through Oct. 8.
Stalvey said the upcoming event will be promoted through both print and social media.
Barns of Rose Hill is a nonprofit arts and community center on Chalmers Court in Berryville. Its Dinner and a Show series provides reduced-price concert tickets to people who dine in local restaurants beforehand.
Last year’s series was the first. Sarah Ames, executive director of the Barns, said “it went great.”
“We had sold out shows, and restaurants were packed” before the music started, said Ames.
Several concerts started late, she mentioned, because ticket-holders arrived late due to the crowds.
Details about this year’s Dinner and a Show series will be announced soon, Ames added.
Clarke County Administrator Chris Boies said the grants will have a positive impact on the local economy by helping to attract tourists.
“Together,” said Boies, “these two organizations (CCHA and the Barns) bring large numbers of people to our community through their high-quality programs and events.” said Boies.
The grants were provided through the VTC’s Marketing Leverage Program. More than $3.2 million was awarded to 236 local and regional tourism programs and attractions statewide to help them generate visitation and revenue.
New Lego exhibit opens at MSV this weekend
WINCHESTER — Legos are back in a BIG way at the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley this summer.
Public Square sculpture’s unveiling planned for this summer
WATERTOWN — Earlier this week, sculptor and Watertown native David O. Grieco was back in town to work on his sculpture that will adorn Public Square’s Peanut Park.
PHOTOS: Damaged Mars Sculpture Blocked Off as Repair Work Begins at Mission: SPACE in EPCOT
After we reported on extensive damage to the exterior Martian display in front of Mission: SPACE a few days ago, a row of planters is now blocking the area. This indicates a renovation of some sort is now in the works.
Red Planet Rescued at Mission: SPACE
Mission: SPACE is a centrifugal m
Why Every Photographer Should Create a Series of Images
I usually don’t speak in absolutes, but in this case, I do believe that every photographer should create a series of images at some point. What might surprise you is that the content of the series is wholly unimportant.
There is a vast array of skills in photography that we must work on to improve. The usual suspects that are rolled out in educational articles and videos are composition, mastery of settings, and techniques such as long exposure. But, if you are truly serious about photography, there’s another pursuit that runs as an undercurrent below every other skill and morsel of knowledge: consistency.
Consistency is the beating heart of successful photographers, and it is absurdly difficult to truly achieve — that is, to be capable of creating images of the same quality, time and time again, with few to no misses. It’s difficult to work on consistency other than putting in the hours, deliberate practice, and self-reflection, but there is one way.
A Great Photo Doesn’t Make You a Great Photographer
In the summer of 2012, I created the above image at 3 am on a quiet road near a friend’s house. The table, the phone, and the pencil sharpener on the left of the image were all antiques and accidentally ruined. The umbrella was so severely melted that it served no purpose at all after this frame, and the suit took a few hits, too. On the drive home, I had to swerve off the road to put out a fire in my car’s passenger footwell after the huge wheel of steel wool I had bought caught fire again. It was a truly chaotic shoot to bring to life a chaotic idea in the form of a chaotic image.
This was the first image I took that saw any true success. It was featured in several exhibitions, including in Times Square, New York, and the Louvre, Paris. It was selected for multiple awards and features, it was plagiarized, its copyright was repeatedly infringed, and I sold limited edition prints to collectors. I do not see it as a great image, particularly not after 11 years of looking at it, but by most metrics, it probably qualifies. What’s important to note here, however, is that I was not a great photographer — I’d argue I’m still not.
The image involved a reasonable amount of planning and a good idea, but most importantly, a lot of luck; I was still pretty new to photography and there were many guesses involved. In all honesty, I captured an image way above my station and couldn’t replicate its originality or quality. I learned that the hallmark of a great photographer is consistently being able to create high-end results, but the hallmark of a good photographer is being able to consistently create good results, too. I knew I wasn’t the former, but how could I become the latter?
Why You Should Create a Series of Photographs
If you are inexplicably a devout reader of mine and have a great memory, you may recall I have written about this some years back, but I didn’t truly understand the importance. I knew that creating a series of photographs taught you valuable skills, and I even had a sense of what those skills were, but I wanted to revisit the topic with new eyes.
Creating a series of photographs means creating multiple images that share something — a theme, a subject, a style, etc. There should be something that ties all the images together, a thread that runs through them all and makes them identifiable as part of that series. This is significantly more difficult than it sounds and requires planning and forethought to pull off.
The important consideration here is that the series doesn’t have to be high art, it just has to be a coherent and consistent collection. Although I was very fond of my headshot series six or seven years ago, now it looks plain and uninspiring to me. Nevertheless, it is a coherent collection where each image clearly derives from the same series, although I can find myriad faults.
I knew I had to start simple with my first series, and so I decided to do a headshot series, in macro, of insects. I got two worthy images in six months and aborted the idea, vowing to stick to true simplicity this time. I decided to create a natural-looking headshot series of people, always face-on, always neutral expressions, and always the same depth of field. After I had roped a few friends into standing in front of my camera, I realized that the consistency had to flow through everything; I had to keep the crop the same, the post-processing the same, and the mystical “feel” of the image. I soon ran into problems I hadn’t even considered: to have a uniform series, I wanted to have each subject’s head around the same percentage of the frame. The problem? People have vastly differently sized heads. You cannot replicate the same pose, crop at the same point below the shoulders and at the top of the head, shoot from the same distance, and have the head take up the same amount of real estate.
I learned far more from creating a relatively bland series than I had from the many other shoots I had performed. Everything had to be considered, and sloppiness led to images that didn’t fit in the series (which happened a handful of times). I was no longer snapping away with a rough notion of what I wanted to capture. Instead, I was carefully trying to recreate an image over and over, in different conditions, with different subjects.
So, this is my call to all photographers, new and veteran, who have never tried to create a series of images: do it. It doesn’t have to be National Geographic-worthy, or warrant its own exhibition — you don’t even have to publish the results. What it teaches you is the invaluable skill of consistency and what it takes to achieve it.
If you’ve created a photo series, please share it in the comments below. I’d love to see them!
Honors Night 2023 Celebrates Student Achievements
What follows is the list of awards given to Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School students at the annual honors night ceremony held on Thursday, May 25.
Valedictorian: Annabelle Brothers
Salutatorian: Jacob Glasgow
Valedictorian Annabelle Brothers.
— Ray Ewing
Class Essayist: Daniel Serpa
Top Twenty Seniors: Annabelle Brothers, Jacob Glasgow, Daniel Serpa, Clyde Smith, Isabella Merriam, Josephine Welch, Jack Crawford, Madeleine Bengtsson, Julia Sayre, Linus Munn, Eloise Christy, Jack Walsh, Grace Gallagher, Sophia Kokoszka, Aileen Mahoney,Juliet Morse, Adrienne Christy, Cali Giglio, Ella Keene, Penelope Long, Hannah Hoff.
Departmental Awards
Art, Design & Technology
Excellence in Drawing and Painting, Nazare McIntosh; Excellence in Photography and Graphics, Samantha Warren, Excellence in 3D Design and Architecture, Fernanda Rosa, Cecilia Prata; Excellence in Crafts and Sculpture, Tegan Gale; Excellence in Game Design, Brody Royal; Excellence in Programming, Senique Wilson; Excellence in Interactive Art, Hannah Costa. Effort and Leadership in Art, Design Technology. Grade 9: Jason Jarrell, Highley Marsh, Brady Vought, Xeandre Miller. Grade 10: Jean Abreu, Louisiana White, Quinlan Slavin. Grade 11: Jack Zheng, Ryassa Lacerda. Grade 12: Paige Alley, Lorhana Souza, Kamar Dehaney.
Athletics
Sportsmanship Award: Camden Napior, CJ Walsh; Unsung Heroine Award: Lily Moran, Daniel da Silva, Daniel Serpa; Outstanding Student Athlete in Academics: Josephine Welch, Jacob Glasgow; Outstanding Student Athlete in Competition, Penelope Long, Matheus Rodrigues. MIAA Pillar Awards: Leadership, Maia Donnelly; Community Service, Zach Mathias. Coaches’ Education, Vinny Paciello; Sportsmanship, Sophia Balsas; Wellness, Rebecca Mandelli. US Figure Skating Award, Gold Achievement, Mya O’Neill.
Career and Technical Education
Xeandre Miller accepts a 9th grade effort and leadership in art design and technology award.
— Ray Ewing
Excellence in Automotive: Exploratory, Hunter Bolduc; Level 1, Christie Chrisgerad; Level 2, Jack Chronister; Level 3, Matthew Pouliot. Excellence in Business and Marketing Entrepreneurship, Francis Paciello; Business & Marketing, Ronan Kelly; Marketing, Nathaniel Story. Excellence in Carpentry: Exploratory, Joao Nunes; Level 1, Aizack DaSilva; Level 2, Evan Bettencourt; Level 3, Arthur Da Silva, Everthon Da Silva, Kaio Da Silva. Excellence in Culinary Arts: Exploratory, Kylee Brasefield; Level 1, Mason Cron; Level 2, Molly Sylvia; Level 3, Jaheem Richards. Excellence in Health Assisting: Exploratory, Hannah McCormick; Level 1, Jahzarah McIntosh, Elena Giordano; Level 2, Kimberly Marques; Level 3, Kinley Rinzin, Alexia Campbell. Excellence in Horticulture: Exploratory, Brady Vought; Level 1, Jean Abreu; Level 2, Legend Silva Goodwin; Level 3, Luke Yuhas. Excellence in Sail MV: Maritime 1, Peter Miller; Maritime 2, Kaio daCosta. MVA Presidential Award: Massachusetts Outstanding Vocational Technical Student Award, Evelyn Brewer.
English
Effort and Leadership, Grade 9: Sarah Barros, Ashley Rose Silva, Walter Prescott; Grade 10: Teddy Pacheco, Beth Jennings, Mason Cron, Rodeo Purves Langer; Grade 11: Jack deBettencourt, Samantha Caldwell, Chrisgerad Christie, Norah Prestley; Grade 12: Mikaelly Ribeiro, Nolan Carreiro (dual enrollment), Madeleine Bengtsson, Daniel Serpa, Jocelyn Baliunas. Excellence in English, Grade 9: Lucas Souza, Gabriel Arado, Teagan D’Arcy, Anina Garvin; Grade 10: Hannah Landers-Saunders, Holden Brew, Emily MacMillan, Louisiana White, Tayna Silva; Grade 11: Sydney Emerson, Tatum Thomas, Lillian Duarte, Sophia Cutrer, Maja Nielsen, Lyla Solway; Grade 12: Sydney Rydzewski, Penelope Long, Clyde Smith, Annabelle Brothers, Jacob Glasgow. Morelli Award, Julia Sayre.
Newspaper
Excellence in Journalism: Julia Sayre. New England Scholastic Press Association Special Achievement Awards: Highest Achievement Award, Class III Newspaper, Editor-in-Chief, Julia Sayre, Asst. Editor-in-Chief, Nikeya Tankard, Asst. Editor-in-Chief, Olivia MacPherson. Highest Achievement, Art Editor, Madeleine Bengtsson, Photo Editor, Isabella Merriam. Special Achievement – News Story – “Spanish-speaking students and staff assist migrants”, Julia Sayre. Special Achievement – News Story – “BSA calls for Black History Month every month”, Nikeya Tankard, Hillary Ochoa.
English as a Second Language
Excellence in ESL 1, Matheus Zanelatto; Phoenix Award in ESL 1, Mahiza da Silva Lopes; Excellence in ESL 2, Alessandra De Oliveira Milagre, Roane Escala; Phoenix Award in ESL 2, Victoria Evelyn de Jesus, Kayke Assis; Excellence in ESL 3, Ana de Paula; Phoenix Award in ESL 3, Guilherme Arthur Pereira; Excellence in ESL 4, Priscyla Cruz; Phoenix Award in ESL 4, Sharon da Silva.
AP Spanish class is honored for helping migrants stranded on the Vineyard in September.
— Ray Ewing
World Languages
Effort and Leadership in World Languages, Grade 9: Molly Crawford (Lat 1), Matilda Backus-Clement (Port 1), Walter Prescott (Port 1), Victoria Evelyn de Jesus (SPS), Kellry Aredes (SPS & PHL2), Maeve Cook-Martin (Sp 1C1), Nicholas Mathias (Sp HN 1), Syuis Rivera Rigali (Sp HN 2), Teagan D’Arcy (Sp Hn 2); Grade 10: Arianna Edelman (Lat 1), Aiden Weiland (Lat 1), Raone Escala (SPS), Kayllane Vial (PLA), Grady McCracken (Port 2), Madison Mello (Port 2), Shealyn Smyth (Sp 2C1), Lorrayne Barros (ASL 1), Mathew Fontaine (ASL 1); Grade 11: Alexandra Turner (Lat 1), João Simões (PH4), Rayssa Lacerda (PHL3), Tehya Backus-Clement (Port 3), Reese McCracken (Port 3), Brooke Ward (Sp 3C1), Rebecca Mandelli (AP Span), Lyla Solway (Sp HN 4), Nicholas Carpenter (PreAP 4), Jack deBettencourt (Sp HN 3), Bryce Cioffi (Sp HN 3), Tayla BenDavid (ASL 1); Grade 12: Arthur Da Silva (PH5), Julia Sayre (AP Spanish), Madeleine Bengtsson (AP Spanish), Jack Walsh (Sp HN 4).
MA Foreign Language Association Awards
Award for Excellence in Spanish, Maria Sanchez Roa, Daniel Serpa; Award for Excellence in Portuguese, Rebecca Mandelli; Awards for Leadership in Foreign Language, Andressa Da Trindade.
Massachusetts Seal of Biliteracy in English and Spanish: Rachel Arruda, Madeleine Bengtsson, Annabelle Brothers, Clara Cabral, Andressa Da Trindade, Rayssa De Oliveira, Kayla Dow, Anna Julia Duarte, Jacob Glasgow, Penelope Long, Eduardo Marques, Laiza Miller, Ianna Oliveira, Julia Sayre, Daniel Serpa, Mackenzie Shaw, Clyde Smith, Lorhana Souza. Massachusetts Seal of Biliteracy in English and Portuguese: Kaio Da Silva, Anna Julia Duarte, Arthur Da Silva, Everthon Da Silva, Andressa Da Trindade, Clara Cabral, Laura Gomes, Eduardo Marques, Matheus Rodrigues, Lorhana Souza. State Seal of Biliteracy with Distinction: Maria Sanchez Roa for English and Spanish.
History
Voctoria Evelyn de Jesus, Alessandra De Oliveira Milagre, Priscyla Cruz with their ELL awards
— Ray Ewing
Effort and Leadership in History, Grade 9: Luis Costa; Grade 10: Daniela Alves, Beth Jennings, Raone Escala 11th Grade: Reese McCracken, Alexandra Dyke; Grade 12: Terrence Lett, Jacob Riley. Excellence in History, Excellence in Global, Grade 9: Adriana Young, Nazare McIntosh, Teagan D’Arcy, Penelope Haddad. Excellence in American Studies: Josephine Powers. Excellence in Global 11: Elena Giordano. Excellence in AP US History: Broden Vincent, Kevin Peres. Excellence in AP World History: Jack deBettencourt, Jason Boudreau. Excellence in ELL History Topics: Cecilia Prata. Excellence in 10th Grade Humanities: Holden Brew. Excellence in 11th Grade Humanities: Maia Donnelly, Connor Graves. Excellence in Civics and Current Issues: Daniel Serpa, Gordon Prescott, Cali Giglio. Excellence in AP African American Studies: Olympia Hall, Marin Gillis.
Math
Effort & Leadership in Math, Grade 9: Leah deBettencourt, Hunter Bolduc, Eleanor Mone; Grade 10: Ana de Paula, Kevin Peres, Kayllane Vial; Grade 11: Emma Burt, Sophia Cutrer, Robert Moore, Destiny Brown, Bryce Cioffi, Fernanda Rosa; Grade 12: Linus Munn, Clyde Smith, Lorhana Souza, Rayssa De Oliveira, Nolan Carreiro, Jack Walsh, Josephine Welch. Excellence in Math, Excellence in ESL Math, Pedro Furtado; Excellence in Sheltered Algebra I, Rhayanne Oliveira Beca; Excellence in Algebra I, Ana Julia Da Silva; Excellence in Honors Algebra I, Zyler Flanders; Excellence in Algebra II, Fernanda Rosa, Jack Zheng; Excellence in Honors Algebra II, Josephine Powers, Kestutis Biskis; Excellence in Advanced Algebra II, Molly Crawford, Francis Paciello; Excellence in Geometry, Agata Rodrigues; Excellence in Honors Geometry, Lucy Magden; Excellence in Advanced Geometry, Teagan D’Arcy, Syius Rivera Rigali; Excellence in Pre-Calculus, Kinley Rinzin; Excellence in Honors Pre-Calculus, Elena Luciano, Marin Gillis, Jack Chronister; Excellence in Pre-AP Calculus, Jack deBettencourt; Excellence in Honors Calculus, Madeleine Bengtsson; Excellence in AP Calculus (BC), Lyla Solway, Daniel Serpa; Excellence in Financial Literacy, Maria Sanchez Roa, Ryan Harding; Excellence in Statistics, Dyana Burke, Violette Wetterhahn; Excellence in AP Statistics, Jacob Glasgow.
Project Vine Awards: Our “Vintage” Award: Henry Shank and Nathaniel Regan; The Big Sibling Award: Kyle Marchand and Caiden Gardner; Our “Rookies” of the Year: Jonah Mafcher and Cayhana Williams; The “Vine Friday” Hero Award: Renato Araujo and Lillie Cabral
Navigator Award: Humanity Award, Jamie Rivard.
Performing Arts
Effort & Leadership in the Performing Arts, Grade 9: Ana Julia Da Silva, Zyler Flanders, Georgia DeRoche, Ella Ehrman; Grade 10: Josephine Powers, Louisiana White, Aiden Weiland; Grade 11: Gabriella Silveira, Sydney Emerson; Grade 12: Ava McGee, Maya Tomkins, Annabelle Brothers, Isabella Merriam. Excellence in the Performing Arts: Excellence in Chorus: Genevieve Hyland; Excellence in Band: Hyunki Seonwoo, Eli Friedman; Excellence in Orchestra: Linus Munn, Tayna Silva; Excellence in the Musical: Madeleine Bengtsson, Emma Burt; Excellence in Acting: Jack Tully. Jim Novak Where the Heck Did That Come From? Award: Luiz Lacerda, Bryan Fernandes Department Service Award: Jameson Whitmarsh. Department Award: Jack Crawford
Jaheem Richards recieving an award for Culinary arts from Jack O’Malley
— Ray Ewing
Physical Education
Effort & Leadership in Physical Education, Grade 9: Joao Victor Araujo, Nola Savard; Grade 10: Matthew Fontaine, Charlotte Watts; Grade 11: Samantha Warren, Kestutis Biskis; Grade 12: Jaheem Richards, Annabelle Brothers.
Science
Effort & Leadership in Science, Grade 9: Rhayanne Oliveira Beca, Hannah McCormick, Sarah Barros; Grade 10: Kayllane Vial, Arianna Edelman, Vytas Alexander, Calahan D’Arcy; Grade 11 Maia Donnelly, Emma Burt, Jack deBettencourt; Grade 12: Jack Crawford, Madeleine Bengtsson.
Recipients of the Excellence in English awards.
— Ray Ewing
Excellence in Sheltered Biology, Raone Escala; Excellence in Biology, Teagan D’Arcy, Syius Rivera Rigali, Nola Savard, Quinlan Slavin, Rickel Smith; Excellence in AP Biology, Joshua Salop, Broden Vincent; Excellence in Chemistry, Elena Luciano, Broden Vincent, Sophie Winters, Quinlan Slavin; Excellence in AP Chemistry, Robert Moore; Excellence in Earth Science, Jason Jarrell, Gianni Navarrete, Lucy Magden, Chloe Nicotera; Excellence in Physics, Caroline Dolby, Jack Hayden, Olympia Hall, Lyla Solway; Excellence in AP Physics, Clyde Smith; Excellence in Anatomy and Physiology, Elena Luciano; Excellence in AP Environmental Science, Daniel Serpa, Lyla Solway; Excellence in Science Research, Maia Donnelly, Molly Crawford; Excellence in Marine Biology, Bryce Cioffi
National Honor Society Spring Inductees: Violet MacPhail, Samantha Caldwell, Molly Sylvia, Brooke Ward, Walker Brescia.
National School Development Council Awards: Lyla Solway and Alexa Schroeder
Book Awards
Luiz Lacerda, Bryan Fernandes (recipients of the Jim Novak Where The Heck Did That Come From? Award)
— Ray Ewing
Harvard University, Lyla Solway; Smith College, Emma Burt; Dartmouth College, Marin Gillis; Yale University, Alexa Schroeder; Saint Michael’s College, Georgia Magden, Thomas Fairchild-Coppoletti; University of Notre Dame, Sophia Cutrer; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Robert Moore; Suffolk University, Olympia Hall; Western New England University, Jack deBettencourt, Lasell University, Jahzarah McIntosh; Martha’s Vineyard Bank, Molly Sylvia, Nikeya Tankard.
President’s Award for Educational Excellence: Annabelle Brothers, Jacob Glasgow, Daniel Serpa, Clyde Smith, Isabella Merriam, Josephine Welch, Jack Crawford, Madeleine Bengtsson, Julia Sayre, Linus Munn, Eloise Christy, Jack Walsh, Grace Gallagher, Sophia Kokoszka, Aileen Mahoney, Juliet Morse, Adrienne Christy, Cali Giglio, Ella Keene, Penelope Long, Hannah Hoff, Nikola Nikolov, Griffin Stead, Matthew Littlefield, Annabel Eddy, Rayssa De Oliveira, Laiza Miller, Gabriella DeBlase, Aubrey Holmes, Hannah Murphy, Jocelyn Baliunas, Mackenzie Shaw, Andrea Morse, Isabelle Ribeiro, Margaret Bernard, Samuel Gurney, Kinley Rinzin, Nicole Menton.
President’s Award for Educational Achievement: Eamon Savard, Lily Moran, Lily Shaughnessy, Alana Nevin, Maria Sanchez, Roa Anna Duarte, Trevor Gullotta, Clara Cabral, Daniel da Silva, Genevieve Hyland, Eduardo Marques, Kayla Dow, Ava McGee, Evelyn Brewer, Micah Simmons, Nolan Carreiro, Marcos Rodrigues, Ryan Harding, Alexander Walsh.
Character Awards
Community: Grade 9: Kiara Alves, Brody Royal, Nora Motahari, Hunter Bolduc. Grade 10: Agata Rodrigues, Avery Mulvey, Josephine Powers, Miles Hayes. Grade 11: Zachary Mathias, Bryan Sornas, Michael Vincent Paciello. Grade 12: Matthew Littlefield, Clara Cabral, Lucas Cacique. Curiosity : Grade 9: Ana Julia Da Silva, Alessandra De Oliveira Milagre, Gannon Magden. Grade 10: Aedan Coogan, Daniela Alves, Rodeo Purves Langer. Grade 11: Samantha Caldwell, Juliana DeSouza, Matheus Magri. Grade 12: Romain Lyn, Sandy Da Silva, Nikola Nikolov. Resilience: Grade 9: Leah deBettencourt, Matthew Day, Dalvin Titus. Grade 10: Jessica Arruda, Sierra Flanders, Theodore Pacheco, Nicholas Rabeni. Grade 11:Caleb Guerrero, Makayla Landers, Emanuel Oliveira. Grade 12: Kamar Dehaney, Carlos Burgos, Eduardo Marques. Accountability: Grade 9: Larissa Klein, Aidan Christensen, Sophia Alves. Grade 10: Jonathan Cardoso, Natalie Wambui, Robert Pacheco. Grade 11: Camden Townes, Dragomir Langhammer, Charles Porterfield. Grade 12: Evelyn Brewer, Hanna Maria Santos, Nicholas Rego. Compasssion: Grade 9: Ella Ehrman, Elizabeth Carbon, Rhayanne Oliveira Beca. Grade 10: Renny Smith, Anthony Pruciano, Sofia McGroarty Sampaio. Grade 11: Jenna Hathaway, Antori Green, Sarah De Oliveira. Grade 12: Jayden Baird, Lucas Belain, Luis Funes Seren.
Internal Landscapes
YOUNGSVILLE — Painter, Printmaker and Mixed-Media artist Madelon Jones will be featured in June at Domesticities in Youngville. Inspired by nature, Madelon’s work expresses that …
