Visual arts students receive national recognition

Visual arts students at Interlochen Arts Academy have been recognized with regional Gold Key awards in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards competition. The works of sixteen students will advance to the national level to be reviewed by a panel of professional jurors for national award recognition and scholarships. The honored students are:

Harrison Apple, Kristina Barry, Won Hyung Choi, Lindsey Fox, Becky Hopkins, In Kyung Jung, Min Ji Kang, Sun-Ah Kim, Grace Klinger, Jung Eun Lee, Kiona Niehaus, Jordan Pemberton, Shawn Smith, Sara Wenokur, Bryn Wootton and Jaeseong Yi

Visual artists featured in new book

The work of four visual arts students from the Academy will be published in 500 Pendants and Lockets, part of the 500 Series, published by Lark Books. Ella Hall, Eric Harman, Jae-Sung Kim, and Joe Nivens created metal jewelry pieces as part of their metal studio class last spring. Lark Books received more than seven thousand entries from international artists, with Interlochen Academy Visual Artists taking four of the 500 featured studio jewelry interpretations. The book is scheduled for release this summer.

YoungARTS Competition Finalists

Six Interlochen Arts Academy students were named as finalists for the 2008 National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts (NFAA) YoungARTS competition. In January, this talented group traveled to Miami to participate in ARTS week activities. They had the opportunity to take part in master classes, exhibitions and performances. The students included:

• Robert Cornelison, music - bassoon
• Darita Seth, music - composition
• Samuel Hinkle, music - voice
• Adam Blodgett, theatre - spoken
• Alexandrea Tocco, theatre - spoken and musical theatre
• Whitney Winfield, theatre - spoken and musical theatre

Four Academy students considered for Presidential Scholar award

Four seniors at Interlochen Arts Academy have been nominated for this year’s Presidential Scholar Award, one of the nation’s highest honors for high school students. Nominees who are selected to be Presidential Scholars will travel to Washington, D.C. in June for National Recognition Week, which culminates in a White House-sponsored award ceremony. Presidential Scholar in the Arts semi-finalists from Interlochen Arts Academy include:

• Adam Blodgett, theatre - spoken
• Robert Cornelison, music - bassoon
• Samuel Hinkle, music - voice

Presidential Scholar candidate in academics nominee:

• Jon Gauer, music - euphonium

Interlochen Arts Academy Combo selected for Monterey Jazz Fest

The Interlochen Arts Academy jazz combo was selected to participate as a finalist in the Monterey Jazz Festival’s Next Generation Festival (NGF), which took place the first week of April in Monterey, California. The combo performed twice on Saturday, April 5. In its fourth year, the NGF features the nation’s most talented middle school, high school and college jazz musicians and vocalists. The Academy jazz combo is directed by Bill Sears and includes Corbin Anderson, Dylan Anderson, Maxwell Beckman, Gil Chapman, Adison Evans, Aaron Johnson, Sean O’Donnell, Gabriel Smith, and Peter Wagner. The top combo will win cash awards and will be invited to perform at the 51st Annual Monterey Jazz Festival in September 2008.

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