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EHS Wins Awards at the National Jazz Festival
Edgemont SD

The results are as follows:

Results 2024

Solo Jazz Singer top 10 vocalists:
Grace Barron
Farryn Gallup
Andrea Lee
Leyla Tastan
Melissa Wang
Colin Yung

 

EHS Jazz Ensemble- Judges' Choice Award- Charlotte Blotner (trumpet)

 

EHS Jazz Combo- Category Small Ensemble (S2), Honorable Mention

Outstanding Musician- Theo Kornblum (tenor sax)

Judges' Choice Award- Theo Kornblum (tenor sax)

 

EHS Vocal Jazz Ensemble- Category Large Vocal Jazz Ensemble, 2nd place 

Judges' Choice Award- Grace Barron (voice)

 

EHS A Cappella Vocal Jazz Ensemble- Category A Cappella Vocal Jazz Ensemble, 1st place (The Edgemont Vocal Jazz Ensemble has won 1st place in their division ten times in the past eleven years!)

Outstanding Musician- Sam Ryan (voice)

Judges' Choice Award- Sam Ryan (voice)

 

Congratulations to all of our fantastic musicians!

 

Sketch of a girl looking in a pond
Edgemont School District

The Young Artists Exhibit 2024 is taking place this month at the Katonah Museum of Art. The work of high school seniors from over 40 local schools is being featured in this annual exhibition. This year, the work of eight Edgemont students will be displayed.

Students take an active role in producing the exhibition as they help to promote, curate, and install the nearly 400 works of art on view.

The exhibit can be seen at the Katonah Museum of Art (134 Jay St, Katonah, NY) from February 11 - March 3. Admission to Young Artists 2024 is pay as you wish.

 

 

EHS Students Make a Difference
Edgemont High School

Led by art teacher Adrianne Amorosa, the club's goal is to support local animals in shelters and rescue centers through donation drives, fundraising, and other projects. 

Fifteen students organized the trip, collecting various donations to bring to the shelter with them. While there, they helped make enrichment activities for the dogs and cats which will be put to immediate use. They also had the chance to get plenty of snuggles and thanks from the grateful recipients of the treats! 

 

Art by Hollis Sigler
Edgemont School District

Native American Heritage Month: The Art of Raven Halfmoon

For the month of November, The EHS Art department honored Native American Heritage Month by showcasing the work of artist, Raven Halfmoon. Raven Halfmoon currently has an exhibition at the Aldrich Museum that should not be missed! Raven Halfmoon’s practice spans torso-scaled and colossal-sized stoneware sculptures, with some soaring up to twelve feet and weighing over eight hundred pounds. With inspirations that orbit centuries from ancient Indigenous pottery to Moai statues to Land Art, Halfmoon interrogates the intersection of tradition, history, gender, and personal experience. Born and raised in Norman, Oklahoma, she learned about ceramics as a teenager from a Caddo elder. Working mainly in portraiture, Halfmoon hand builds each work using a coil method. Her surfaces are expressive and show deep finger impressions and dramatic dripping glazes—a physicality that presences her as both maker and matter. She fuses Caddo pottery traditions (a history of making mostly done by women) with populist gestures—often tagging her work (a reference to Caddo tattooing). Her palette is specific and matches both the clay bodies she selects and the glazes she fires with—reds (after the Oklahoma soil and the blood of murdered Indigenous women), blacks (referencing the natural clay native to the Red River), and creams. Sometimes she stacks and repeats imagery, creating totemic forms that represent herself and her maternal ancestry while also reinforcing the multiplicities that exist inside all of us. Her works reference stories of the Caddo Nation, specifically her feminist lineage and the power of its complexities. This exhibition will include a combination of new and borrowed works that vary in size and content from over the last five years.

 

Sculptures created by artist Raven Halfmoon