Sho Iz
Sho Iz is a 17 year old who aspires to be a professional artist. Sho is a fun happy for lucky person who loves cats and being fun and silly. Sho enjoys binging youtube videos while completing their art and socializing with their friends on discord! The first time they really got into art and animation was in 6th grade when they started watching anime. From there, they took off finding all sorts of artists online through social media, movies, cartoons, comics, and more. Now they aspire to become a professional animator and to have their own art shop and youtube channel!
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Residency Work
This piece is less about the traditional aspect of a finished piece and more about the process in which I took to learn and better myself at art.
I was inspired to do this when I remembered I had bought two “how to sketch daily” courses from professional artists a bit ago. I’ve always struggled with daily sketching and felt I had lost time and progress due to this. I was determined to learn how to let go and just produce!
I started by crafting my own sketchbook with paper thread and canvas for the cover, I did a bit of personalization, and voila sketchbook! Then I got to work.
Over the past week I have been following the videos and filling the pages with ink. I was taught to let go of mistakes and not be afraid to leave things unfinished. Through all of this I have created a sketchbook that I am proud to look through each time and feel very accomplished about myself!
Nastia Hnatov
Nastia's attentiveness and curiosity to the subtle details and beauty of the world around her has influenced her art in both subject matter and style. The artist's journey through art has focused on symbolizing specific snippets of her feelings and experiences. Nastia does this by capturing candid moments to create a final piece using either a contemporary and loose style or a more realistic and detailed one (or even a mix of the two). Working in the media of painting, drawing, and mixed media, Nastia's process involves using her tools to create a distinct subject on canvas or paper. By continually experimenting with new mediums, textures, and subjects, Nastia's journey through art has allowed her to share her perspective on the world.
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In the past five weeks, I have accepted new ideas and routines while meeting numerous new objects and people. Encapsulating these subjects through the media of photography, mixed media, and sculpture has allowed me to share my experience at Governor's School. From c-store receipts to friends, one can find some piece of this summer in each piece—physically or figuratively.
Andy Cordell
Andy (Amanda) Cordell is a 16 y/o artist who attends Vernon Malone College and Career Academy in Raleigh, NC. They spend their time sitting on the patio, baking at indecent times, and making unfinished artwork. They’re looking to finish a few projects and complete their video game design course.
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Residency Work
The piece, or more so series, Exposure explores the emotions and experiences I’ve had at Governor’s school. When I first planned out the series I wanted it to be a clean cut thesis to my time here, but I realized I barely processed what I had experienced. I made the decision to let go of my grip and focus on making art as a way to confront my thoughts and meditate.
In the time I made Exposure I found grief, self destruction, idolization, false image, inspiration, fondness, and acceptance.
Exposure bluntly refers to the vulnerability I’ve presented in these pieces. I find comfort knowing I spent my residency being honest with my artwork.
Adelaide Jones
Adelaide Jones is a 17-year-old artist who attends Raleigh Charter High School and lives in Raleigh, North Carolina. Although Adelaide only really began drawing in her freshman year of high school, she quickly fell in love with the freedom of expression involved in the process. She appreciates mixing mediums the most, though oil painting has a special place in her heart, and is extremely willing to play with any new materials that arise. In her free time, Adelaide enjoys reading and playing a whole bunch of musical instruments, as well as going to antique stores with her friends. During quarantine, she became especially fond of photography, and she uses her mom’s old manual camera to take the majority of her film photographs. Adelaide’s portfolio consists mainly of detailwork and style experiments, and she hopes to continue this progress, as well as add a few more mediums, in the future.
The Residency
My piece, “Minute Hand,” is inspired by the idea that no matter how hard I fight it, time will continue to pass; there’s nothing I can do to stop the world from spinning, nothing I can do to stop moments from ending. Many elements in the piece point towards this ideal: the literal “hands” in the bottom right corner are both punching and moving as hands on a clock; the overlaying fabrics point to time overlaying memories that you can’t revisit, no matter how hard you try; the torn through shirt shows the process of growing and leaving behind. Even the faces in the top right corner and center of the piece show the movement of time: first, the upper face is visibly less delicate and “young” than the first face; and second, the faces are in the style of 17th century oil paintings, which are difficult to find nowadays and even harder to renew the practice of. That style of artwork has been taken by time, and once I’m finished, this piece will also be behind me.
Sylvia Bowers
Stephanie is from California but grew up mostly in Greensboro, NC. She is 16 and a rising senior at Northwest Guilford High School. She has an older brother but (sadly) no pets. Stephanie has always shown interest in creating things, both artistic and practical. She enjoys the little things in life, documenting her life in journals and taking photos of the world around her. In her art, Stephanie takes inspiration from warm colors, aesthetics, living beings, and creates with the intent of promoting a strong message or idea. She started off with graphite and colored pencils, but has been branching into painting and mixed media. Environmentalism is an important motivating factor in her art, as well as mental health and humanity.
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Stephanie Oh
Stephanie is from California but grew up mostly in Greensboro, NC. She is 16 and a rising senior at Northwest Guilford High School. She has an older brother but (sadly) no pets. Stephanie has always shown interest in creating things, both artistic and practical. She enjoys the little things in life, documenting her life in journals and taking photos of the world around her. In her art, Stephanie takes inspiration from warm colors, aesthetics, living beings, and creates with the intent of promoting a strong message or idea. She started off with graphite and colored pencils, but has been branching into painting and mixed media. Environmentalism is an important motivating factor in her art, as well as mental health and humanity.
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Residency Work
A Piece of Us is a manifest of my childhood dream of starting an open art studio. I had always dreamt of creating a space for people to come create freely, as that is an environment I have always searched for. Inspired by our teacher Grace’s lessons on residencies and social practice, I created my own small workshop, and produced a collage through social practice.
I intended for this piece, as well as the workshop experience as a whole, to be a reflection of GSW and its community. As we are all high school students, it is easy to not have time for creative outlets. For this reason I wanted to create a welcoming, free environment for the students. I especially wanted to give students in other disciplines a chance to create.
The goal of the collage was to include bits of everyone’s creative products from the workshop, from paintings to even abandoned scraps. To collect these things for the collage, I asked each visiting person to leave behind one thing they created. By using peoples’ creations as the only medium for the collage, it truly shows bits and pieces of our community. It gives insight into each of the creative minds of the GSW students, and the unique beings that they are. I gathered these creations and mounted them, also incorporating things from the event itself like the tablecloth that I had decorated.
This experience forced me to step away from my usual traditional art pattern, and to do something eccentric. It taught me a lot about things other than art as well, such as being in charge of my own event and planning everything. Seeing so many people talk together and just create made me so happy, as I had not expected so many people from other disciplines to be interested in art. Throughout the residency period I worried a lot about the final collage, and the limited time I would have to put it together. However, during the workshop itself and afterwards, I realized that the point of my residency should not be the physical work created, but rather the experience of the workshop and the “social practice” I was doing. Assembling a more “abstract” work of art also helped me realize that abstract art takes more thinking and planning than I thought.
Amelia Spell
Amelia Spell is a student from Northwood High School in Chatham County, North Carolina. Amelia’s love of art really took off in the third grade when she attended her first private art class. Since then, Amelia has been involved in anything and everything creative. From designing T-Shirts for school, to creating and selling merchandise on Etsy, art has become more so a habit than a hobby. Today, Amelia is furthering her art education by attending Governor’s School West at High Point University where she is learning to explore and redefine her creativity, to be experimental and unafraid, and to break the labels of art itself.
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For my Residency Period Project I chose to further explore the art of printmaking. The three prints were each carved from a linoleum block using carving tools, inked, and printed by stamping the blocks onto pieces of paper. Each of these prints encompass my connection to Governor’s School in a different way. The piece “Norton” and the piece “The Courtyard” show two places on the campus of High Point University which are significant to me. “Norton” is a carving of the Norton building on campus where my peers and I have spent the past four weeks redefining art, exploring our creative minds, and challenging ourselves. The skills and ideas I have learned while inside the Norton building have given me a completely new perspective of art. “The Courtyard” is a carving of the courtyard which resides right outside my dorm window. During my time here at Governor’s School I have spent many of my first and last nights in this courtyard. The courtyard is also a place where many Governor’s School students, myself included, seem to feel at home. It seemed only appropriate that I document these two locations as they have shaped my Governor’s School Experience. The third print “The Best and Brightest” was inspired by Rodney Allen, the director of the Governor’s School Program. When my peers and I arrived on campus Rodney Allen made sure to reassure us that we deserved to be here and often would refer to us as “The Best and Brightest”. Despite the reassurance, I often experienced self doubts and felt that I did not belong among my very intelligent peers. I chose to create this piece in order to, literally and metaphorically, engrave Rodney Allen’s words into my own mind and block out my self doubts. As I prepare to close the door on my Governor’s School experience, the documentation of these important locations and ideas through print making allows me to, physically and mentally, carry my growth home with me.
Grace Kauder
Grace Kauder is a 17-year old artist from Greensboro, North Carolina, where she lives with her parents and two cats: Misty and Cocoa. She has been drawing her whole life, but started taking art seriously in 2017. She takes inspiration from all aspects of life, but she loves reading and psychology, which often become incorporated aspects of her artwork. Her piece Dissonance depicts the psychological concept of Cognitive Dissonance, and her piece Imposter Syndrome depicts the concept of imposter syndrome. Other works are inspired by various aspects of everyday life. She works mostly in semi-realism, but enjoys drawing stylistically as well.
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Greek mythology has always fascinated me, thanks to my obsession with Rick Riordan as a child. Yet, outside of the Big Twelve greek gods, I felt as though many myths and stories had been neglected in Western media. Obscure Greek mythology has always been associated with high culture-- with academia and exclusivity. However, I wanted to be a part in changing that: to make the basic stories of the children of Nyx and other greek myths a little more well-known. I chose to make a zine because I wanted my work to be reproducible; I wanted it to be spread. I draw a lot of inspiration from the works of Madeline Miller, the author of Circe and Song of Achilles, and Supergiant Games, the developer of the game Hades. Both of these creators bring Greek mythology into popular culture: helping spread the stories and tales in new, modern ways. It is my hope that, like their works, The Children of Nyx will inspire you to look into Greek myths and legends a little deeper.
Asya Wise
Asya is an 11th grade student that has interests in art mostly as a form of comfort and as a hobby. She enjoys working with digital forms of art, oil, acrylic and watercolor painting, colored pencil and marker drawing, and wire. She is also interested in becoming a polyglot, swimming, writing, nutrition, and fashion. She enjoys taking in the world around her especially, as she engages with many documentaries and educational videos as well as liking to meet and have good conversations with people. She loves her family, friends, and coffee as well. She hopes to have a career in the future in the field of social sciences.
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Cardinal Sins is a joint piece of character sheets and writings that explore my interpretation and personification and other interpretations of what the cardinal sins mean to me. While I do also state definitions, the pieces of writing serve as an ongoing contradiction throughout the pieces which eventually reveals criticism of the cardinal sins within the final piece. Along with the ongoing revelation in the writing, the art piece is effected as well. I decided to do this piece because of my constant internal conflict of good and bad, right and wrong, and the cardinal sins are a perfect example of this conflict.
November Woditschka
November Woditschka is a rising senior and young artist. She works mainly with mixed media and fiber art. November has a “go with the flow” mentality and likes to work intuitively on her art. Pattern, texture, and abstraction are important elements in her artwork and take priority over realism. She hopes to continue to create art for her whole life whether that be a part of her career or as a way to channel creativity.
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Residency Work
This piece, “Fantasy Seascape,” was inspired by the people I have met at Governor’s School and what I have learned about myself while I have been here. The medium and the design of the stars were inspired by my classmates’ work in visual art. The inspiration for making a piece that is abstract and made from various patterns, unrealistic colors, and fictional scenery comes from the fact that I feel that representing real life is too much pressure, and sometimes overdone. I have often felt that I am not as “good” or valid of an artist because I can’t make realistic or representational art like many of my classmates and people outside of art class. However, while I have been at GSW I have tried to embrace my differences and passion for texture and patterns that don’t have to be realistic. The inspiration for a purple sky with two moons came from another piece I made. Although the two are very different in style and medium, I like to imagine that they represent the same universe and the same sky. The rocks in the sea come from a style of doodling that I like to cover pages in my sketchbook with. I used many different types and textures of yarn along with strips of fabric to create this abstract seascape out of a fantasy. To add additional texture and variety I crocheted and twisted some of the yarn. The goal of this art piece was to make something for me, something that would represent my style of art and that would be fun for me to make. One of my favorite things at art exhibits is when the art is interactive, so I encourage the viewers to touch and feel the different textures of the piece.
Linde Fonville
Linde Fonville is a 17-year-old artist from Charlotte, NC. Linde has always loved architecture, particularly the sketch and plan models of buildings. Especially through the struggles of 2020 and the looming senior year ahead, there are many aspects of life that seem overwhelming and difficult. Finding the positive during this hectic and confusing time is a way to brighten one’s day; therefore, in many of Linde’s art pieces, she strives to create art that radiates beauty and positivity. Linde loves a variety of mediums, but particularly watercolor, collage, and pencil or pen on paper. Linde also loved to paint abstract and busy compositions with acrylics. In addition, she loves the spontaneity of blind contour drawings! Outside of art, Linde loves to watch sunsets and sunrises with her younger sister, Sally. She also loves to run and teach funny tricks to her family dogs!
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Residency Work
In a few days, we will leave Governor’s School West. When we leave, we will be taking many memories home with us. Throughout the past five weeks, I have captured happy, sad, and funny memories on camera. I wanted to use these images to create a body of work that represents the amazing friends and memories that will leave this amazing place with. I created a series of three images that all have a specifically shaped border. I mimicked a polaroid picture frame and wrote the date on the bottom of where the photo is created because I love the way polaroid pictures capture pure and candid moments! My first piece is a watercolor painting of the mirrored spheres around campus, titled The Mirror Orb. Whenever I passed by one, I snapped a photo. This piece represents all the weird and funny photos that I have taken in the orb. The next piece, Scavenger Hunt, is a group picture the night of the scavenger hunt. This picture makes me smile because at the time, I hardly knew anyone. Almost five weeks later, I can say these people are some of my best friends. I chose to use watercolor for the sky because it beautifully represents the fluidity of the sunsets on campus. The last piece in the “polaroid” series is a digital collage of the sunsets from Roberts Hall Lawn. I love sunsets, but Coming from Charlotte, NC, we rarely get vibrant ones. The sunsets at GSW have definitely been a highlight of the past five weeks! By placing them in chronological order, the viewer is able to see the progression from night to night. In addition to the three “polaroid” pieces, I created a busy album cover filled with memories and photos! This piece is titled “Gov Buddies.” The album cover was very fitting, as I have listened, sung, and danced to so much music while at GSW. I also tried Oreos and Peanut Butter for the first time. At first, I was very skeptical, but now it is my favorite dessert! In a way, I think this is symbolic about how I felt about GSW. I was very hesitant to come, but now I have met some of my best friends. I want to thank GSW for an amazing experience and allowing me to meet amazing friends and make long-lasting memories.
Jordan Slade
Jordan Slade is a 17 year old student at Triton high school in Erwin, NC. She started drawing in elementary school due to her love of cartoons and animation. She currently attends governors school west for the summer
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Though originally intended as an animation, the drawing “Social Butterfly” is my take on anxiety and worry leaving your body. We always use the term “butterfly’s in your stomach” when referring to the nerves and jitters one may feel about whatever, so I wanted to make a visual of what happens when you finally get rid of those feelings. The euphoria felt when you finally get rid of the anxiousness in your mind is so unbelievably freeing and I wanted to capture that through my drawing.
Lily Napierkowski
Lily Paulina Napierkowski was born and raised in North Carolina. She is 17 years old and a rising senior at Community School of Davidson. She has two cats and two dogs, Elvis, Oliver, Finn and Macie. She also has a sister majoring in graphic design. Lily has always been inspired by her sister's creativity and artistic abilities. She has been taking art classes since she was 10. Her favorite mediums are ink and sculpture. She enjoys hanging out with friends, sleeping in on Saturdays, creating artwork, playing lacrosse. She intends to continue to work on art until college.
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JaeGoo Ha
JaeGoo Ha is a student at Jack Britt, he focused on academics in school and neglected art for a long time. His parents are both immigrants from Korea which caused Jae to depend on himself in finding opportunities and working hard to stay on top of his game. Since he was young, he was surrounded by art from his Mother, who is an art therapist, making him fall in love with the thought of helping others through art. His focus on academics resulted in him only taking two art classes (beginner/intermediate). Fortunately, that experience brought back his love for art and his desire to follow in his mother’s footsteps. NC GSW is an experience to help him determine his future and passion in art, exposing him to various mediums and styles, with a positive and unique environment. He strives and desires to create meaning and purpose in his art, a message and emotion that would be far greater than words could ever tell. To tell a story and produce an effect that would positively influence others
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The art piece “Creative Challenge” was inspired by the GSW art classroom and fellow classmates. From combining all the skills and lessons I’ve acquired throughout the experience, I wanted to challenge myself and apply these skills immediately into my work. This unique environment and class taught me that art isn’t restrictive and can be basically whatever we want. It exposed me to many new mediums and art styles that inspired and broadened my sight. This class sparkled the creativity inside me, it revealed the importance of fast judgements and creativity. Many different skills were applied onto the art piece, weaving, wire sculpting, collaging, assemblage, these different skills were inspired to me through my classmates and their creative work.throughout the amazing experience. They helped mold my ambitions and energized my dying productivity to create this particular piece.
This piece was especially challenging for three particular reasons. First, there was no real planning beforehand. I wanted to aim for quick/sudden creativity right on the spot to replicate the “20 Creation” activity that took place in class. Most of the time, I had no real idea of what I am doing or what I am trying to achieve, but solely focusing on what comes up in my mind.
Next, this is my first time ever creating something that included sculpting, assembling, and collaging also in a way that's random and abstract in an attempt to reflect the many “Blind Contours” we did in class. Finally, I wanted this creation to have a goal, whether it is emotions or messages, so while I worked on my piece, I had to keep in mind what I am trying to achieve by using certain things. This piece includes an eye that looks like a window/fence made of straws with wires in them, it was to show how eyes are considered the “window” to the soul and to also depict an image on how coronavirus prevented many people from going to amusement parks, hence the “ferris wheel” in the middle around “the eye” and with “fences” blocking off the image.
Overall, this piece was very fun and challenging because of its sudden and chaotic features. I would usually plan and research before a project, but this time it was completely different. This went against my usual comfort mediums like paintings and colored pencils, the only two mediums I’ve ever used. It was also really fun because I had to try things I’ve never done before, and this taught me so many things that I've never known. I tried my best in this piece to use everything from materials to ideas that were inside the art classroom. It was made not with fine details and planning, but with fun and creativity. This process was an experiment filled with obstacles and lessons that were invaluable.
As is often the case, the process was more meaningful than the final product.
Haven Lee
Haven Lee is a visual and sculptural artist more or less born and raised in the smokey Appalachian mountains surrounding Asheville, NC. After discovering his love of art at a small arts-focused middle school near the Penland School of Craft, he set his sights on becoming a professional artist/designer. During his time stuck at home and indoors because of the pandemic, Haven fell in love with digital painting and takes inspiration from the likes of Artem Chebokha, Robert Stacy, and Aaron Blaise. In his free time, Haven enjoys virtually spending time with friends, professionally procrastinating, playing soccer, and snow skiing in the winter months. With a recent acceptance into the high school visual art program of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Haven hopes to improve as an artist and determine his next steps towards his professional goals.
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I often find that artwork, and in most cases, its surrounding environment, is too serious. That gallery halls and intricately carved golden frames force the viewer to join it in a quiet, critical, contemplation, which usually snuffs out any other ways that an observer might go about expressing their thoughts or praise of a piece. Furthermore, the surrounding environment of a painting can affect how it is perceived. When you see a painting in a museum, it’s exactly what you expect, it’s exactly where you would expect a painting to be. There is nothing wrong with this per se, but there is also nothing captivating or intriguing about it. However, if that same painting were hung from a tree in the park, or a lamp post in the middle of a parking lot, it would implore those around it to notice it. To question it. To attempt to interpret and understand it in any way they see fit. In my opinion, when art is submerged into everyday life and crammed into places where you wouldn't expect to find it, the artwork transforms into something intensely exciting.
My series of wire sculptures were made to reject the sober pensiveness that art and its surroundings can have. And instead, embrace playful, child-like wonder and fascination in intentional synergy with the artworks surrounding environment. While my artwork was installed in public environments, I wanted the discovery of each piece to feel unique and personal, as if each viewer was the first person to stumble upon it or notice it.
I also think it worth noting my inspiration from the graffiti artist Banksy. His playful commentary and clever use of location and placement in his installations were very helpful in both the conceptualization and installation of my artworks.
In the end, my series was cut a bit short, and I did not get to install as many pieces as I would have initially liked to. Through some series of events, High Point University began to take notice of my various pieces and requested that they be taken down. I’m not upset by this, however, as there is always an innate risk whenever art is placed outside of the gallery, that’s what makes it fun.
Carolyn Guan
Carolyn Guan is a 17-year old rising senior at East Chapel Hill High School who has worked with various mediums, strongly favoring painting. Inspired by various art movements, she is still working towards finding a style of art that suits her. Although unsure whether to pursue art as her career, Carolyn continues to use art as a form of expression of self and a safe space. Other hobbies she has include playing the piano, dancing (especially jazz, ballet, and hip-hop,) listening to music, and reading. She currently lives in Chapel Hill, NC, with her parents and two younger brothers.
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*Work in progress
The word Decretum means decision, course of action, or resolve. My piece questions the resolve we have towards environmental protection and shows the choice that must be made for our future and generations after.
Just a few days before coming to Governor’s School, a close neighbor and I talked. She had asked me, “Do you believe in the effects of global warming?” When I heard this question, I was stunned. We had been talking about future careers, and I had not expected this to correlate with my future occupation. But, as she asserted the drastic effects of climate change in the immediate future strongly, she told me about the various professions which could be intrinsically linked back to environmental protection. Climate change will quickly cause much difference to our surroundings. The most prominent one being that rising sea levels will cause major coastline cities to start submerging in water. (Miami, Seattle, Charleston, New Orleans, and our very own outer banks.) Although it was merely a fleeting thought, her question had caused me to think, do I feel obligated to help out?
I have constantly kept this question at the back of my mind knowing that I could make something out of it. Since my conversation with my neighbor, I have seen the news on the oil spill catching fire in the Mexican Gulf, an ironic solution to ocean pollution only to be increasing the number of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere once more. I have seen people leaving their plastic cups and bags on the ground, along with the large amounts of food being thrown away; try a few bites. Along with questioning moral obligations and our ethics and morals, I decided that it was necessary to get my thoughts out.
The resulting piece, Decretum, is incomplete. As a structured thinker, I prefer large amounts of planning before starting my works, sometimes spanning months. However, with the limited amount of time I had for this residency, that would not have been possible. Experimenting with time constraints allowed me to understand how well I work under short deadlines. Much creativity comes from going with the flow without a plan, which shows how fleeting thoughts can become a reality of some nature.
Avery McIver
Avery McIver is a 17 year old artist based in Holly Springs, NC. She is currently attending Holly Springs High School and lives with her parents, two siblings, and dog, Bentely. From a very young age art has been a large part of her life. As of now, she is attending the Governor’s School to learn and further explore her artistic capabilities.
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From a very young age, I have always been very interested in comics and animation, which ultimately led to the creation of this. This piece, comic panel, is an exploration of art style and visual storytelling. It depicts an opening scene of a story entitled ‘Neutral’ that I created when I was thirteen. This was heavily inspired by the shows I was watching and the stories I was reading at the time. In this scene you can see the main character, Asa, walking through this crowded and bustling city before being stopped by a stranger. During my process for this piece, I decided that I wanted the viewer to be able to see the progression from the city environment and buildings to the people within that city, in order to gain a better understanding of the world building and the region that this takes place in. I also experimented with line weight and other stylistic choices in order to make the panel more visually appealing and to highlight the key elements of this scene.
Autumn Deal
Autumn Deal is a 16 year old rising senior at South Point High School, she is actively pursuing a career in digital art and has goals to work as a concept artist for an animation company. As far as dreams go, Autumn has always wanted to work for Walt Disney Animation Studios and to live in the heart of that animation industry, California! Autumn is also interested in graphic and logo design. Her other interests include reading, hiking, yoga, biking, and group face times with friends. She is currently living in Belmont, North Carolina with her family and dogs, Walter and Rosebud!
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The Residency
Fearing Time
Digital Pigment Print
The piece, “fearing time” is about my struggle accepting that my childhood and youth is coming to a close. As a rising senior in high school, it is that time in my life where being a kid isn’t really allowed anymore. I’m going to start applying to colleges soon and begin adulting. Since the beginning of my high school career I’ve been dreading the end and here it is, right around the corner. If I’m being perfectly honest with myself, I’m terrified of what’s to come. If I could, I would stay a kid forever but that’s not possible. This piece is a reflection of this fear. In this work, I pushed myself to create something personal and to not create characters from the imagination. With my love of character design comes a struggle to create art about the world around me, and in this piece I used my own memories.
Ana Lac
Ana Lac is a rising high school senior based in Raleigh, North Carolina. From the age at which she was able to lift a pencil, art has played an integral part in her life. Ana’s artistic practice is based on the exploration of self and identity. Her art follows her journey and documents the inquiries and hardships that come along the way.
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This collection of work was inspired by the joy and liveness I’ve felt in the past month.
Kefi is a Greek word that means spirit of joy, zest for life, triumph, passion, and enthusiasm. Some say it is the way of life for the Greeks. At Governor’s School, I seem to have found this spirit of joy again. I felt as if I had lived like the Greeks for a little bit. These pieces are representative of my expression of that joy. The paper sculpture is directly inspired by the painting, a nod to the connections I have formed from my life at home and here at Governor’s School. Here, everything seems to be elevated and pushed into another dimension. I created these with gratitude in mind, for the people and things that had made this experience possible. The extent to which Governor’s School has impacted me is never something I could put into words, but through these pieces, I hope you can catch a glimpse.