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On line 59, column 21 0!</b></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">WOHS Instructor Lacy Otteman has sent out an email reminding West Ottawa seniors of this scholarship extension.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We need more people to apply!” Otteman said.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hope College Frosh. Lisette Aguillon was one of the recipients of the WO Renaissance Scholarship for the graduating class of 2023. Aguillon is extremely grateful to have been awarded this scholarship.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I ended up using the scholarship towards my tuition and books, and it’s helped me out a ton!” Aguillon said.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Submission for these scholarships is incredibly easy! Most of the scholarships require the same three things for submission: a brag sheet of high school activities, a short essay about future goals, and the FAFSA completion confirmation.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">However, there is a large list of scholarships in the handbook. The first step is to scroll through and check the qualifications. Then, check if there is extra material required for submission. If there is, don’t worry! All required information is submitted in the </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">same email</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hope College Frosh. Kira Guerrin was awarded the Joe Huber Thespian Scholarship for the 2023 class. For Guerrin, receiving the scholarship made her “ecstatic.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It felt like all of my hard work and countless hours put into West Ottawa’s theater program had finally paid off,” Guerrin said.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Materials are to be emailed to </span><a href="mailto:[email protected]"><span style="font-weight: 400;">[email protected]</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> with the subject line of [Your Name, Scholarship Name]. </span><b>Just one email is needed to cover all scholarships!</b></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Good luck, Seniors!</span></p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https: |
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On line 115, column 21 .</em></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Earlier this week I received a letter from an old friend of mine, Jake Barnes, who teaches English at Tamarack Stand High School. Tamarack Stand is a tiny little farm town on the rocky forest beaches of northern Wisconsin. Their school is a lot smaller than ours &#8211; probably no more than four hundred students &#8211; and their mascot, for clarity, is the mighty Holstein, one of the most common breeds of dairy cows in Wisconsin. Mr. Barnes is only in his 4th year of teaching, but I find he’s one of those people who is far wiser than his age would suggest. We keep a regular chain of letters going back and forth, and this one really struck me as what I needed to hear this Spring. Maybe all of West Ottawa could benefit from hearing it. Here’s what he wrote:</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“March 24, 2024,</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dear Seth,</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s been a quiet week at Tamarack Stand High School. It’s colder here than in Michigan in the winter and early Spring &#8211; something to do with the lake. You can ask one of your science teachers how that works. I don’t have a clue. Anyway, it’s cold. We still have a lingerance of snow and as I write this letter it’s being whipped off the empty farm fields and across the country roads on the wind. It’s a beautiful sight; the kind of weather that makes life seem slower because you have to be inside all the time. But it’s hard to live life that way for so long as we have this past Winter. It’s the same way the mood has settled over the school this time of year. A little slower, a little quieter, and definitively cold.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lately, it seems like students are walking slower and slower between classes, taking longer and longer to turn things in, and have less and less to say. When I ask them to work, there’s often an edge in their responses and sometimes outright refusal. Everyone needs a break &#8211; Spring Break to be exact &#8211; and the other teachers would agree. For me, this is the most exhausting stretch of the school year. We all need a chance to stretch our legs and our minds before hurrying along to the end, to Summer. Maybe you feel it too, Seth.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So yes, the mood these days is pretty negative. It’s been a hard couple of weeks in my English 9 classes, especially. The freshmen are slogging their way through essays on </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">To Kill a Mockingbird </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">and I’m sad to say that the apathy of Springtime seems to have sucked all meaning from the book. Instead of the wonderful talks I had imagined about equality, doing the right thing, and making a difference in your community, I’m having to give a daily pep talk about staying on task and how to properly cite textual evidence. These things are not the reason I signed up to be a teacher, but I am reminding myself to keep working hard at them. If you’ve ever felt this way, I’m sure you know what I’m talking about. Even the things we do not like to do can carry great importance.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That said, it sounds like just about every other teacher is having the same draining, doldrum experience as me right now. However, there are two notable exceptions here at Tamarack Stand. I’d like to share these stories with you, hopefully as a form of encouragement. </span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">First is Coach Rosen, the physical education teacher and coach of the women’s basketball team. In the classroom, her kids are all itching for the snow to melt so that they can get on to the flag football unit, but on the court her players brought as much joy to the school as anyone this year. </span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Lady Holsteins only lost three games this season: their first two and their last, which was the regional final. It was an altogether unexpected and joyous season that no one saw coming, and Coach Rosen guided those ladies to be something special. It’s amazing what someone like her can do with a group of young women. I read online about your women’s team’s run this year, so I’m sure you understand what I mean. Congrats to them, by the way. Back here there really weren’t any standout performers on the team, at least not at the beginning of the year, but all the girls learned to play with a chemistry and fluidity that’s never been seen before in Holstein basketball. Two of them &#8211; seniors Amanda Boot and Rianna Gomez &#8211; ended up earning All-Conference. You could tell the whole team cared deeply about ball and about each other by the way they played. Tamarack Stand High School has not had a team this </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">together </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">in a long time, and on Wednesday it all ended in the regional final down in Sheboygan.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Now, it wasn’t exactly what you would call a “good game.” There’s only so much we could do. Boot, our point guard, came down hard on her ankle after a foul in the first quarter, made both her free throws, but was unfortunately unable to continue. She spent the past week living up to her last name as she crutched around the school, that’s for sure. Our ladies fought like sheep at the shears but the opposing team &#8211; the Ironhill Harvesters &#8211; were simply too good. As soon as they ran onto the court for warmups, scythe logo standing out brightly against their blood red uniforms, I had a bad feeling that a swift and painful death was coming. Once Boot was sidelined, our fate was sealed. Credit to our ladies for trying their best, but it was nearly a blowout. A couple of three-points from the team and some good defense in the fourth quarter saved our dignity, but not our championship run.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Despite this rather dismal drubbing, Coach Rosen has been a hero to all of us this week. But more than that, her team had created an air of real excitement, of humble disbelief all season that our school was important, and more specifically, that our school was important to </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">be a part of</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. The Lady Holsteins have never gone this far and to bring home a trophy, even just the district one, was quite something to see. </span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As I sat by myself in the stands during that final game, I saw the very same students who are barely making it through a day of classes cheering their hearts out. Kids who normally hide their faces behind computer screens instead painted them proudly with the Tamarack Stand black and yellow, and I think it was the first time I ever saw some of my freshmen with their eyes open at all. It reminded me that even when school seems dull or frustrating, we are all a part of something bigger, a community that we can contribute to in a meaningful way. The Holsteins were brought together over basketball this year; I hope your Panthers find a way to do the same, to see everyone on campus as one big team, no matter what your roles may be. Maybe in that way, you can reach a little higher than you have before.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The other exception to our list of disillusioned and despairing teachers right now is old Mr. Madison, Tamarack Stand’s ancient philosophy teacher. By that I mean he is both ancient AND our school’s philosophy teacher. I think I’ve told you about Mr. Madison before; he’s been here forever. His classic line is “I was here, then the rocks were here, then they built the town, then they built the school.” The truth is, I have no idea how old he is, but he’s been a teacher here longer than anyone else. All the students think he lives at the school, and honestly I kind of do too. </span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Anyway, I walked past his room the other day on my way to make some copies and heard him reading something aloud to his class. I couldn’t tell you what he was reading or even what it was about, but what caught me was the sound of his voice and his expression. You could actually hear the smile as he read. I peeked into the room and saw a sea of students that were pretty much tuned out. A few phones under the desks, a plethora of heads down, and maybe just one or two kids taking notes. Mr. Madison, though, either didn’t notice or didn’t care. I think it was the latter. I could just tell how much he loved what he was doing, loved what he was reading and feeding his brain with. It was as if reading this book was Mr. Madison’s purpose on Earth, and nothing else mattered in that quiet moment. I stood and listened for more than a few minutes.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I think that Springtime is for being like Mr. Madison, for throwing yourself headlong at whatever you were made to do. We’ve all been stuck inside for so long, but now is when we get a chance to get back to life with renewed energy. I’m guessing that over in Holland you’ve got plants starting to bloom. Maybe the old maple trees are budding, or the grass is becoming green again, or those world-famous tulips are starting to sprout up and down the streets. Back here in Tamarack Stand, the farmers are warming up their tractors and the dairy cows are flicking their tails, ready to taste real live grass. I even saw a pileated woodpecker fly in and get to work in my backyard yesterday. I want to remind you to be like the plants and the farmers and the cows and the birds, Seth. This time of year, when the world feels gray, they don’t care what others are thinking or what others are doing around them. When Springtime hits, all the living things wake themselves up from their ruts, shake off the dirt, and practice their purposes with a new joy and enthusiasm. Even if you are the only one who does this, do your best at it. It will brighten up your little corner of the world more than you know. And if everyone at West Ottawa or Tamarack Stand does it, well then our schools will become beautiful places indeed. </span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Do you hear it, Seth? Can you feel it whispering in the branches? Marching through the hallways and into your classroom? Springtime inviting you to start singing a song, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">your song</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, all over again?</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Go well, do good work, and keep in touch,</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">-Jake”</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That’s the news from Tamarack Stand, where all the dreams are grand, all the teachers are patient, and all the students are on time. I’ll make sure to share some wisdom from Mr. Barnes with you all again sometime soon. Keep at it West Ottawa!</span></p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https: |
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On line 173, column 21 /span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Every day, a girl who owns a Hydroflask buys a Stanley cup to fit in with her friends. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Every day, a boy fills up his Owala with water from plastic bottles. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Every day, a girl pulls up to school with a different colored Hydroflask. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Reusable water bottles are great for the environment… when you’re not being a freak about them. It is ironic how bad for the environment reusable water bottles are when they are met with gross overcosumption. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Speaking of overconsumption, I have been eavesdropping on this war of sorts. Hydroflasks vs. Owalas vs. Stanleys. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> HYDROFLASK: You can’t outdo the doer. We are the original and there’s no topping ol’ reliable. Who needs to ‘guzzle’ their water anyway? We come in all sorts of cool colors and we don’t have traces of lead. Not sure if Stanley could say the same. Plus it is widely accepted to put cool stickers on us.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> STANLEY: “If you can’t afford luxury, that&#8217;s okay, get an Owala, but don’t take it out on those of us who can.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> OWALA: “Whatever! Luxury is a top that you can sip OR guzzle, not to mention a top that doesn’t spill… something you’d know nothing about.” </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> STANLEY: “Luxury is actually being pretty when there isn’t a bug in the consumer’s ears telling them you’re pretty. Something YOU, Owala, know nothing about.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> UNKNOWN VOICE: “Guys why can’t we all just get along?” </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> STANLEY: “Nobody was even talking to you, Disposable Dasani. Go to the landfill where you belong.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> DASANI: “I could wash up on a beach someday!”</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> STANLEY: “Or end up in a seagulls stomach… get lost, Trash.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> HYDROFLASK: “Man I am glad I am not like Dasani.” </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> OWALA: “Yeah that’s one thing we agree on.” </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> HYDROFLASK: “I am still better than you both, don’t forget that.” </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> STANLEY: “Let’s agree to disagree, Grandpa.” </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> UNKNOWN FEMININE VOICE: “Hi girlies, you don’t know me yet but you can call me Celcius… Celcie for short!”</span></p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https: |
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On line 189, column 27 iption><![CDATA[ Sr. Lilly Lopez Schulze walks to the office, dreading the tough talk about post-graduation plans during her meeting with the college advisors. Schulze’s worry is washed away when she spots mountains of chips, many drinks, and varieties of candy. Encouraging students to complete the daunting, yet important, tasks of senior year is difficult. Meeting...]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDA |
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On line 197, column 21 /span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Encouraging students to complete the daunting, yet important, tasks of senior year is difficult. Meeting with the college advisors and finishing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is crucial for every student regardless of their plans after graduation. Still, many students need help to </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">complete these tasks.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> “Even though I had a plan to turn in my FAFSA by a date, I put it off because it had a far due date and I had other stuff I considered more important at the time to do,” Sr. Mike Doan said. With FAFSA having a late start and end date in 2024, it is easy for Seniors to push it off until the last minute; setting up meetings with advisors is no different. The meetings are even easier to set aside, and far more nerve-wracking than FAFSA. “Honestly, I wasn’t very eager to meet with them, it was tough to talk about college ideas, let alone FASFA,” Sr. Lilly Lopez Schulze said. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> This year’s college advisors, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Juan Vazquezhernandez and Stelle Weinberg, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">have given prizes and treats to those who complete their FAFSA and arrange an appointment. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Prizes range from chips and soda to $25 gift cards to Barnes &amp; Noble. The college advisors made sure to have something for everyone to encourage seniors. “With the gift cards, I feel like people have been making a lot more meetings for FAFSA. West Ottawa is such a large school so sometimes we have a hard time reaching all the seniors, and so we were kind of hoping that the snacks will help draw people in,” said Weinberg.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> The events and incentives given to seniors are game changers; they make students feel welcomed and confident. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> “Once I did meet with them It felt like a great choice. While I did feel more motivated, I also felt rewarded for my efforts. With all the treats they had, it made it very welcoming,” Lopez Schulze said. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Receiving prizes for their hard work is important to students. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> With the school workload, many scholarships, and post-graduation plans at hand, sometimes a pat on the back is all students need to keep going. The goodies from Vazquezhernandez and Weinberg are medals for seniors; they signify their success and hard work. </span></p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https: |
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On line 234, column 21 /span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Roelofs’ peers know him as light-hearted and driven. “Collin is a kid who always puts others first. He is passionate about family, friendships, loyalty, perseverance, and overcoming anything thrown his way,” Roelofs’ mother, Lisa Roelofs, said.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Baseball has played a significant role in Collin’s life, becoming an apparent passion from a young age. “I have always been surrounded by baseball, from my dad playing in high school, and my mom playing softball. My family has always been big in the sport,” </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Roelofs said.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> His desire to start serious training wasn’t evident until he was in the sixth grade. “I started taking pitching lessons two to three times a week. Around freshman year, I was practicing six days a week, and that became my norm since.” Putting time into both his club and high school team, there is no doubt Roelofs strived to reach his fullest potential.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Roelofs is a pitcher, so he’s on the mound as long as the game allows. “I get to the field as soon as possible to warm up, since my routine is pretty long,” Collin said. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Like any other game, Roelofs worked through his typical routine. However, he could feel that something wasn’t quite right. “From what I could remember, it was the first game of the tournament round. After warm-up, everything was going okay, until my arm started to get tired much faster than usual. It got so bad that I pulled myself out of the game and could barely even lift my arm,” Roelofs said.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> “Since I had my nerve snap, I did not feel the tear. I wish I had, to be honest. At that moment, we had no clue that the result would be as bad as it turned out. I only felt pain when I would straighten my arm out, or try to throw.” Without knowing the extent of the tear, he continued to push through the pain. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> “We knew his injury was serious when he went to a showcase in Detroit and told me he needed to go to urgent care. He had been fighting some arm issues for a bit, but throwing at that camp was the final straw,” Lisa Roelofs said. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> The Roelofs family quickly brought Collin to a hospital, eager to understand why he was undergoing severe pain. After consulting with doctors, Collin’s family was told that surgery would be necessary to fix his arm. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Collin was suffering from a torn UCL, so the procedure consisted of taking a tendon from his wrist and inserting it into the ripped nerve to seal it back together. The surgeons also opened up his forearm and stretched out the nerve to reattach it. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> “I had my surgery on September 27th, 2023. While I wish I could say I wasn&#8217;t nervous, I was. I am lucky that I had such a great surgery crew to help me get through the process. All I remember after the anesthesia was getting wheeled out, and all the pain I had felt on the way home,” Roelofs said. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Since the procedure, Collin has been on the road to recovery. Standing as the biggest challenge he has ever faced, healing took a toll on him both mentally and physically. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> “In my opinion, the mental aspect of the recovery was worse than the physical part. Losing my ability to do a lot of things like driving, lifting, etc., unmotivated me with most things. I spent the entire week on the couch and couldn&#8217;t do anything about it. The physical part of the recovery is still hard to this day. Learning how to straighten my arm back out took multiple weeks and attempting to lift anything was very difficult.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Being told his recovery could take twelve to eighteen months to heal fully is hard to accept. Within those eighteen months, Collin has to miss his current season of baseball, which is vital to college recruiting and summer ball. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Although this is an upset, Roelofs will continue to regain what he lost. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> While in the hospital, Collin went to physical therapy multiple times a week. Since then, he hasn’t stopped working through rehab; he consistently goes to the gym two times each week. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Since the start of this journey, Roelofs has been working with a therapist who is pushing him to become even stronger than before.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> “As of a couple of days ago, I hit the five-month mark on recovery. I am beyond blessed to have a physical therapist who is willing to put so much time and effort into me. Rehab is pretty demanding, but I am in some of the best shape I&#8217;ve ever been in and am lifting around the same weight I was before,” Roelofs said. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> “I have seen Collin work harder than ever to regain strength, recover mobility, and overcome the mental challenge of being stopped from doing something he loves so much. I do not doubt that he will succeed,” Lisa Roelofs said.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Not only did this nerve tear bring Collin great physical strength and diligence, but also the ability to understand what he’s capable of. Since day one, he’s been determined to prove that he’s stronger than an injury. Although Roelofs is aware he’ll have his good and bad days, never once has he failed to inspire all of those around him. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> “Collin always wanted to make sure he had a smile on his face, no matter how he felt. He is resilient. 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On line 278, column 21 /span></p> <p><b>PIECE 1 &#8211; HAVEN MARCH</b></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><img decoding="async" class=" wp-image-13860 alignleft" src="https://thewestottawan.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/art4.png" alt="" width="245" height="197" srcset="https://thewestottawan.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/art4.png 406w, https://thewestottawan.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/art4-300x241.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px" />Title: “Healing Hands” by Haven March</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Media: Oil paint on canvas</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I painted this piece during Covid. It was a time when healthcare workers were working around the clock. I wanted the focus to be on the heart because it does so much for us. The hands represent the gloves healthcare workers wear to do their best work and the flowers represent the flourishing growth of life. This took me around a week to paint and involved new layers each day. Every time I look at this piece, I think of all the different meanings it may have and the impact it portrays.” &#8211; Sr. Haven March.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><b><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class=" wp-image-13859 alignright" src="https://thewestottawan.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/art5.png" alt="" width="268" height="269" srcset="https://thewestottawan.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/art5.png 367w, https://thewestottawan.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/art5-70x70.png 70w, https://thewestottawan.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/art5-300x300.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px" />PIECE 2 &#8211; JOSEPH DEROO</b></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Title: “Lonely” by Joseph DeRoo</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Media: Mixed media collage and then digitalized</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The major story of this piece is its origins in college. We see the girl, whom I cut from a book on the strange and mysterious, communicating with ghosts on an Ouija board, but in this piece, she is staring into the abyss with a look of comfort on her face as she stares out at the ancient ruins. This piece is a reflection on the juxtaposed comfort and isolation of being alone.” Jr. Joseph DeRoo.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><b><img decoding="async" class=" wp-image-13861 alignleft" src="https://thewestottawan.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/art3.png" alt="" width="275" height="206" srcset="https://thewestottawan.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/art3.png 404w, https://thewestottawan.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/art3-300x225.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px" />PIECE 3 &#8211; KIMORA MAYA</b></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Title: thinking/treading/thriving by Kimora Maya</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Media: Acrylic paint and oil pastel</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I do not have a meaning behind this piece. I don’t really make art for a purpose, I make it because it’s fun and because it gives me creative freedom to do whatever I want. I care about the final piece, but I find myself caring about the process more because it&#8217;s fun and you learn more about art as you go.” &#8211; Sr. Kimora Maya.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><b><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class=" wp-image-13863 alignright" src="https://thewestottawan.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/art1.png" alt="" width="203" height="290" srcset="https://thewestottawan.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/art1.png 281w, https://thewestottawan.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/art1-210x300.png 210w" sizes="(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px" />PIECE 4 &#8211; EMILY SCHICKER</b></p> <p><b><br /> </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Title: Bambi by Emily Schicker</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Media: Colored Pencil</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I was simply just watching the movie the night before I made this. I was bored the next day and just thought of the movie and chose to draw that. I really like drawing cartoon characters. I prefer this style over realism because it&#8217;s more creative and I can do what I want.” &#8211; Jr. Emily Schicker.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><b><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class=" wp-image-13862 alignleft" src="https://thewestottawan.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/art2.png" alt="" width="228" height="308" srcset="https://thewestottawan.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/art2.png 299w, https://thewestottawan.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/art2-222x300.png 222w" sizes="(max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px" />PIECE 5 &#8211; SOFIA COIPEL</b></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Title: Tomie</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Media: Acrylic and posca pens</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It&#8217;s based on the book </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tomie</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> by Junji Ito. The main girl in the book, Tomie, is seen in the painting. The message behind the book is how men treat women in society and view them as objects that they can do whatever they want with. I enjoy art because it&#8217;s very fun watching something go from beginning to the end, how something can go from an idea to a sketch to a canvas.” &#8211; Soph. Sofia Coipel.</span></p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https: |
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