Nascha Lamphere exhibited a senior art portfolio display at Western Wayne’s annual art show on Saturday, May 13.

Nascha focused her senior portfolio on a topic that is close to her heart.

She titled her presentation “The Symptoms of Stress.”  Nascha researched these symptoms and created pieces to represent each of them.  For example, she made pieces representative of agitation, anger, fatigue, insomnia, forgetfulness, anxiety, depression, etc.

Her favorite piece represented social anxiety and was a drawing of a girl isolated from others sitting on a swing.  The hauntingly beautiful picture truly captured the sad feeling of isolation a person under stress sometimes feels.

Nascha plans to study business with a minor in art at Keystone College.  She explained her dream job would be to work as a librarian.  She feels a strong connection between her reading and her artwork.

“When I read it creates a vision in my head of the story, this connects to when I create art and visualize a piece before making it,” Nascha explained.

Jocilyn Hill exhibited a senior art portfolio display at Western Wayne’s annual art show on Saturday, May 13.

She created a display that contained a number of creatively inspired pieces, many of them in the surrealist style.

Her collection entitled “Insanity” was based off the work of surrealist artist Naoto Hattori who Jocilyn looks to for inspiration.

One of her favorite pieces in her collection is a charcoal and watercolor piece of an alien-type person in the surrealist style.

Jocilyn explained why this is her favorite style.

“I like this style because it’s a more uniform way to do abstract art that adds elements but still allows your pieces to look like something,” she said.

Olivia Troiano exhibited a senior art portfolio display at Western Wayne’s annual art show on Saturday, May 13.

She won second place for both display and artwork.

Olivia finds the time she spends working on art relaxes her and eases her stress.

Olivia themed her senior portfolio the “Creative Process” and explained how she set it up to look like an art exhibit.  She arranged all of her pieces carefully on the wall of her space and in the center of it to give her presentation the feel of a professional art studio.

Near the center of her display, she placed her favorite mixed- media pieced entitled “Disclosure.” The picture was of a young woman done in black and white peeking out from a red curtain made of fabric perhaps thinking about her future.

Olivia looks forward to her future studies at La Salle University in Philadelphia this fall to major in environmental studies.

“I love public speaking and hope to be an advocate for the environment one day,” she said.  She also hopes she can find creative ways to make art a part of her future career as well.

Caitlin Henneforth exhibited a senior art portfolio display at Western Wayne’s annual art show on Saturday, May 13.

Caitlin says that colored pencil is a medium that has helped her to create some of her favorite pieces at Western Wayne.  Caitlin called her senior portfolio display “The Bistro.”  She gave her art space the feel of a wine vineyard decorating it with white lights and including a wooden table for her guest book.

She explained that her favorite piece was a colored pencil drawing that fit the vineyard theme.  She loves to work with this medium.

“It helps me to blend different colors to get the color I want it to be,” Caitlin, who will attend Misericordia University in the fall on a track and field scholarship, said.  “This is a hobby I picked up because of art classes I took in school and it helps me to relax.”

Maggie Podunajec exhibited a senior art portfolio display at Western Wayne’s annual art show on Saturday, May 13.

Maggie enjoyed the challenges of working with ceramic materials during her years in Western Wayne art classes.  Her portfolio project had the theme of “Dance” with a focus on ballet, her favorite style.

The piece she considered the most special was a pair of point shoes she created of ceramic clay because of the attention to detail she had to use when making them.

All of the artwork in Maggie’s collection fit her theme well.  She included a picture drawn of Meryl Streep who connects to dance because of the part she played in Mama Mia, a Native American picture to represent spirit dance and even a piece representing The Rocky Horror Picture Show to connect to that iconic film’s unique dance style among many other pieces.

Maggie, who plans to attend Penn State Worthington in the fall to study psychology, has enjoyed working in a variety of art forms in high school.

At the end of April she had her final performance as Mae Peterson in the school’s production of Bye Bye Birdie where she also served as student director and a lead dancer.

“I am passionate about both dance and art,” she explained.  “With art you take your feelings from the inside and put them on the outside on some type of canvas whereas with dance your body then becomes the art form through its movements.”

 

Skyler Booths exhibited a senior art portfolio display at Western Wayne’s annual art show on Saturday, May 13.

She won third place for her display and honorable mention for her artwork.

Skyler plans to major in pharmacy next year at Wingate University, North Carolina, on a full scholarship. She is focused on her academic work just as much as she is on her work in the arts.

The theme of Skyler’s senior portfolio was “Night at the Movies.”  She included many pieces that creatively matched this theme like a picture of a man in sunglasses and her favorite piece called “Open Happiness” in which she added detail to Coca-Cola bottles using colored pencils to make the piece more realistic.

“The coke piece inspired my ‘Night at the Movies’ theme,” she explained.

Congratulations to our girls track and field team on winning the PIAA District II Team Championship!

 

Senior Ryan Atcavage established a new District II record in the pole vault with a vault of 14’1″.

Murals, clay pieces, papier-mâché animals, abstract art, surrealist- style paintings among many other masterpieces filled the Western Wayne High School gym this past Saturday, May 13, for the annual Western Wayne Art Exhibit that was titled this year: The American Frontier: Venture Westward to a Cultural Expression of Life.

Students in grades 9 through 12 displayed various pieces of art work that they had worked on in class throughout the year that were created and judged in the following categories: acrylic painting, watercolor painting, graphite pencil, colored pencil, charcoal, pastel (chalk/ oil), pen & ink, mixed media, ceramic sculpture, ceramic vessel, papier-mâché sculpture, and miscellaneous.

Also, ten seniors chose to exhibit portfolios of their work for the show. These seniors included: Nick Antidormi, Skyler Booths, Caitlin Henneforth, Jocilyn Hill, Nascha Lamphere, Molly Nagle, Maggie Podunajec, Makayla Rose, Peter Tomasetti, and Olivia Troiano. Their displays represented an accumulation of up to four years of artwork. The Western Wayne Art Department judged all portfolios in the categories of exemplary artwork and display.

The winners were as follows: Nick Antidormi, first place for display, third play for artwork; Skyler Booths, third place for display, honorable mention for artwork; Jocilyn Hill, fourth place for artwork, honorable mention for display; Molly Nagle; fourth place for display; Makayla Rose, first place for artwork; Olivia Troiano, second place for display, second place for artwork.

The following advanced fashion design students, who were also seniors, had textile displays featured in the art show. These students included: Zoey Rosensweet, Gina Infante, Madison Kornutiak, and Emily Shaffer.

Their displays highlighted many of the pieces they had created in fashion design and sewing classes.

From left, sitting: Nascha Lamphere, Makayla Rose, and Skyler Booths. From left, kneeling: Nick Antidormi, Caitlin Henneforth, and Jocilyn Hill. From left, standing: Maggie Podunajec, Olivia Troiano, and Peter Tomasetti.

Pictured above:  Jamie Bryan, Caydence Faatz, Kirstin Metschulat, Caitlin Falloon, Darlene Black, and Mallory Jablon

 

Please join us in congratulating the students who competed at the State meeting of the Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science held on May 14-16, 2017 at Penn State University, Main Campus.

Representing the High School:

Mallory Jablon received a first award for her research in Behavioral Science and was chosen as a Pennsylvania Science Talent Search award recipient.

Kirstin Metschulat received a first award for her research in Behavioral Science.

Darlene Black received a second award for her research in Ecology.

Caitlin Falloon served as a technician for the presentations.

 

Representing the Middle School:

Jamie Bryan received a first award for her research in Behavioral Science.

Caydence Faatz received a second award for her research in Zoology.

We are very proud of these students and their accomplishments in the sciences.

 

Thank you for your continued support of this program,

Christine McClure and Maria Masankay

Local Students Celebrate Joy of Reading at 12th Annual NEIU Reading Competition held at Western Wayne High School

Western Wayne School District hosted the 12th Annual NEIU Reading Competition on Thursday, May 11. Numerous area schools competed in both the high school and middle school divisions of the competition. Over 600 high school and middle students participated in the event that celebrates a love for reading. Students at the event competed in three rounds of competition where they had to answer questions about books from an established list. Western Wayne had three teams that participated. Pictured are Western Wayne Middle School students in 8th grade that were a part of Mrs. Megan Rush and Mrs. Jessica McLaughlin’s reading team. From left, kneeling: Makayla Gregory, Hailey Robbins, Hunter Gebert, Maggie Millon, and Haley Estus. From left, standing: Keyly Robinson, Jonatan Stanley, Sydney Hutchinson, Brett Schane, Loida Martinez, and Caydence Faatz.