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TMI Art Students Win Scholastic Awards, Advance to National Competition

Stephanie Gish

TMI art students competed in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, and we have many regional winners. Gretchen Tiede ‘23 earned Gold Key awards on her paintings Light Years from Home and Trick or Truth. Maria Kyle’s ‘23  painting Hivemind also earned a Gold Key, the top local honor. Sara Homma’s ’22 Portfolio Las Caras de Mexico won top honors and a total of five Gold Key Awards.  All of these will advance to the National Level of Scholastic Competition. National Winners will be announced in April and those pieces will be on exhibit in New York during June, with the artists to be honored at an opening reception.Zoe Harrison’s ’24 Surreal Room, Maria … Continue reading TMI Art Students Win Scholastic Awards, Advance to National Competition

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TMI Students Earn Recognition in the TAPPS Fall Photo Program

Stephanie Gish

Several TMI students achieved recognition in the 2021 TAPPS Fall Photo Program. Congratulations to the following students who were recognized in the following 5A school categories: Cityscape / Architecture – First Place: Chloe Clark ’22Experimental – Second Place: George Welch ’23, Honorable Mention: Colin Finerghty ’23Formal Portrait – First Place: Hannah Growney ’22, Third Place: Hannah Growney ’22Informal Portrait – First Place: Reagan Davis ’22, Second Place: Anaya Zachery ’22, Honorable Mention: Reagan Davis ’22 (2 mentions), Colin Finerghty ’23, Anaya Zachery ’22 (2 mentions)Still Life – Third Place: Mateo De La Vara ’23, Honorable Mention: Zachary Isaac ’23, Chloe Clark ’22Waterscapes – First Place: Andy Cubriel ’23, Second Place: Andy Cubriel ’23 Continue reading TMI Students Earn Recognition in the TAPPS Fall Photo Program

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Sara Homma, TMI Episcopal senior, receives highest YoungArts award for accomplishments in visual arts

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Sara Homma, TMI Episcopal senior, receives highest YoungArts award for accomplishments in visual arts Sara Homma, a senior at TMI Episcopal, has been named a 2022 YoungArts Finalist in Visual Arts, the organization’s highest honor. Homma has been recognized for her caliber of achievement and joins 720 of the most accomplished young visual, literary, and preforming artists from throughout the country. Selected through the organization’s prestigious competition, YoungArts award winners, all 15-18 years old or in grades 10-12, are chosen for their caliber of artistic achievement by esteemed discipline-specific panels of artists through a rigorous blind adjudication process. As a … Continue reading Sara Homma, TMI Episcopal senior, receives highest YoungArts award for accomplishments in visual arts

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Harthan ’21 displays her award-winning photo at Bronx Documentary Center

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Harthan ’21 displays her award-winning photo at Bronx Documentary Center TMI alumna Chloe Harthan ’21 was selected to display her award-winning photo entitled “Identity is a Myth – Who is Ever Truly Real” at the Bronx Documentary Center in Bronx, NY, in September 2021.   In the summer of 2020, Chloe took a summer course with The School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s (SAIC’s) Early College Program and was assigned to make use of working outdoors because of social distancing practices. While most of her work was done through painting, her professors encouraged her to step outside of her comfort … Continue reading Harthan ’21 displays her award-winning photo at Bronx Documentary Center

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TMI student, teacher win photo awards

Stephanie Gish

12/17/2018 TMI Episcopal junior Hannah Lashway and Fine Arts teacher Hannah Cooper-McCauley both won awards in the 2018 ATPI (Association of Texas Photography Instructors) Fall Photography contest. Their work was chosen for recognition from among 7,400 entries from 99 schools across Texas, plus California, Kansas, Oklahoma and Washington state.Lashway, a student in Cooper-McCauley’s Photography II class, won honorable mention in the Advanced Fashion category. Cooper-McCauley was awarded first honorable mention for her series, “A Singular Sense of Urgency” in the Faculty Portfolio category of the same contest. Lashway’s work previously was featured in the Helotes Art Walk, the Four x … Continue reading TMI student, teacher win photo awards