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| on the mountain winter 2013-2014
ART STUDENTS PARTICIPATE IN
VANS COMPETITION
SKS
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News
SKS STUDENTS PARTICIPATED
in an art competition sponsored
by Vans, a United States-based manufacturer of shoes and apparel,
known in the action sports industry and for sponsoring skateboard,
surf, snow, BMX, and Motocross teams.
The goal of the competition was to design shoes
in keeping with themes that the company
requested — art, music, sports, and
“
local flavor”.
According to SKS Arts Co-Chair
John Carruthers, who coordinated the
competition, “the work is truly inspiring
as the students worked really hard and
gave it their all.” After the designs were
complete, Carruthers lined the sneakers
Top: Art student June Cho’s ‘15 local flavor
cougar design; Bottom: Shanna Ra’s ‘14 sports
category design, “evolution” from simian to
skateboarder.
THE DEPARTMENT OF
PERFORMING ARTS
presented
“
The 30-Minute Shakespeare: MacBeth
and A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
on November 8–10. The abridged
versions of Shakespeare’s plays by Folger
Education artist Nick Newlin tell the
“
story” from start to finish with the use
of a narrator to fill in the edited scenes.
The students in the production were
novices at performing Shakespeare’s
dialogue, but they handled it very well.
Many were in both “MacBeth” and “A
Midsummer Night’s Dream” and juggled
contrasting comic and tragic roles (along
with school work and sports!)
STUDENTS PERFORM
SHAKESPEARE
up and told the students, “this is
what you get when you expend
the maximum effort.” The
students were stunned at the
great results.
Jamie Zale ‘14 and Joseph Underwood ‘16
as Titania and Bottom in “A Midsummer Night’s
Dream.”
TOP: JOHN CARRUTHERS; BOTTOM: TIM CHEN ‘14
