ASAA All-State Art

West Valley High School

Sweat Soldered Pendant

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Title of Art Piece: Sweat Soldered Pendant
Category: Jewelry / Metalsmithing – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Michael Cebrian
School: West Valley High School
Grade: 11th
Artist Statement: Pierced design from brass soldered on to copper and domed. I really enjoyed making this but cutting out the leaves was difficult because they are so small.
Artwork Dimensions: 1.5 round
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Scarlett Dress

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Title of Art Piece: Scarlett Dress
Category: Photography – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Jenna DiFolco
School: West Valley High School
Grade: 10th
Artist Statement: An Alaskan’s winter in Hawaii.
Artwork Dimensions: Digital Photo…
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Branch Out

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Title of Art Piece: Branch Out
Category: Photography – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Sarah Gray
School: West Valley High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: When searching for the future, remember that beauty lies in the small things.
Artwork Dimensions: Digital Photo…
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Wintertide

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Title of Art Piece: Wintertide
Category: Painting – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Sasha Gorda
School: West Valley High School
Grade: 10th
Artist Statement: Painting is done in acrylics over paper to give texture. I was trying to capture the unusual low light in Fairbanks during the wintertime.
Artwork Dimensions: 10 x 7.5
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Sitka Sunset

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Title of Art Piece: Sitka Sunset
Category: Photography – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Hayden Fisk
School: West Valley High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: After taking a short hike down to the shore, I noticed that the sun was just about to dip under the horizon. I knew right there that I needed a picture of this moment.
Artwork Dimensions: N/A (digital photo)
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Reflections to Ponder

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(Honorable Mention – Photography)

Title of Art Piece: Reflections to Ponder
Category: Photography – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Kris Voronin
School: West Valley High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: Glass has many angles that can be used to add to a photo, window frames themselves are their own frame to the world, no matter where you stand around a photo it acts as if its holding a picture of the world outside making it able to leave many questions to the spectator. Having my subject, Cassidy lean on the wall as if there was nothing allowed me to use the frame as if she was part of the photo, creating a frame within the frame.
Artwork Dimensions: N/A
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Queen of Ellamar

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(3rd Place – Drawing)

Title of Art Piece: Queen of Ellamar
Category: Drawing – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Aubrea Stoltz
School: West Valley High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: This pencil drawing took me a while to complete. It is of a good friend of mine when we were at Ellamar together.
Artwork Dimensions: 11 x 7.5
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The Owl

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(2nd Place – Printmaking)

Title of Art Piece: The Owl
Category: Printmaking – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Sasha Gorda
School: West Valley High School
Grade: 10th
Artist Statement: This is a linoleum block print. I studied Inuit artists printmaking and then did my own version in a linoleum block.
Artwork Dimensions: 9.5 x 8
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Pet Shop

Aubrea
(2nd Place – Painting)

Title of Art Piece: Pet Shop
Category: Painting – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Aubrea Stoltz
School: West Valley HIgh School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: I was interested in trying to paint a night scene and capture the colors and light at that time. It is painted in Acrylic.
Artwork Dimensions: 13.5 x 20
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Antilogy

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(1st Place – Mixed Media)

Title of Art Piece: Antilogy
Category: Mixed Media – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Grant Ackerman
School: West Valley High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: The board itself is an electrolytically etched copper plate affixed to a squared plank of solid walnut. I initially created the plate design in Adobe InDesign before chemically etching and applying a patina to the metal. I was inspired to use all of my favorite mediums while constructing the set, from the more organically shaped ceramic pieces to their copper crowns and counterparts.
Artwork Dimensions: 14 x 14 x 6
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Serenity

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(1st Place – Jewelry / Metalsmithing)

Title of Art Piece: Serenity
Category: Jewelry / Metalsmithing – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Taylor Bergan
School: West Valley High School
Grade: 11th
Artist Statement: This is silver and copper. It is a pierced design, copper wire (soldered) border with a cab. The border took a long time to solder–it was a fairly complicated design.
Artwork Dimensions: 1.75 x 1.25
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Un-anticipation

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(1st Place – Communication Arts / Graphic Design)

Title of Art Piece: Un-anticipation
Category: Communication Arts / Graphic Design – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Maria Frantz
School: West Valley High School
Grade: 12th
Artist Statement: This work was drawn on the computer with a program called Manga Studio. Initially I drew the images on paper before transferring them to the computer and coloring the image on the computer. This is a page from a larger comic that I completed.
Artwork Dimensions: 10.5 x 7
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Spotted Duck Ladle

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(1st Place – Multicultural Art)

Title of Art Piece: Spotted Duck Ladle
Category: Multicultural Art – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Angelica Kougl
School: West Valley High School
Grade: 11th
Artist Statement: I carved to ladle out of alder wood. The hardest part was all the sanding to get it smooth. The ladle was finished with linseed oil and decorated with acrylic paint. It took me a month to complete.
Artwork Dimensions: 8 x 2.75
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Funny Teapot

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(Honorable Mention – Ceramics)

Title of Art Piece: Funny Teapot
Category: Ceramics – 2015
Student/Artist’s Name: Chisana Monson
School: West Valley High School
Grade: 9th
Artist Statement: My teapot was inspired by looking through a big stack of ceramics magazines. There were so many fun designs I saw and this inspired me to build a fun and whimsical teapot. It is handbuilt and fired to cone 6 with a glaze called Blue Hares Fur.
Artwork Dimensions: 11 x 6
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