![It was definitely out of my comfort zone to get [the dress] and decide I loved it enough not to wait and risk not having something that memorable.](https://bestofsno.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Precious_20180902_JRS_00008_ed1.jpg)
![In their full runway outfits, (from left) Audrey Lee 25, Olivia Lucy Teets, 25, Fashion Design teacher Ms. Judy Chance, and Xueying Lili Yang pose for a photo. All three girls made it to Austin Fashion Week by getting in the top 10 in a previous runway show held by Shop LC.
[I like my students] creativity and how they can look at a fabric and make it their own, Ms. Chance said.](https://bestofsno.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/IMG_9686-e1714088765730-1129x1200.jpeg)
![IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Junior Zalie Mann performs “I Love to Cry at Weddings,” an ensemble piece from the fall musical Sweet Charity, to prospective students during the Fine Arts Showcase on Wednesday, Nov. 8. The showcase is a compilation of performances and demonstrations from each fine arts strand offered at McCallum. This show is put on so that prospective students can see if they are interested in joining an academy or major.
Sweet Charity originally ran the weekends of Sept. 28 and Oct. 8, but made a comeback for the Fine Arts Showcase.
“[Being at the front in the spotlight] is my favorite part of the whole dance, so I was super happy to be on stage performing and smiling at the audience,” Mann said.
Mann performed in both the musical theatre performance and dance excerpt “Ethereal,” a contemporary piece choreographed by the new dance director Terrance Carson, in the showcase. With also being a dance ambassador, Mann got to talk about what MAC dance is, her experience and answer any questions the aspiring arts majors and their parents may have.
Caption by Maya Tackett.](https://bestofsno.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/53321803427_47cd17fe70_o-1-1200x800.jpg)
![SPREADING THE JOY: Sophomore Chim Becker poses with sophomores Cozbi Sims and Lou Davidson while manning a table at the Hispanic Heritage treat day during lunch of Sept 28. Becker is a part of the students of color alliance, who put together the activity to raise money for their club.
“It [the stand] was really fun because McCallum has a lot of latino kids,” Becker said. “And I think it was nice that I could share the stuff that I usually just have at home with people who have never tried it before.”
Becker recognizes the importance of celebrating Hispanic heritage at Mac.
“I think its important to celebrate,” Becker said. “Because our culture is awesome and super cool, and everybody should be able to learn about other cultures of the world.”
Caption by JoJo Barnard.](https://bestofsno.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/53221601352_4127a81c41_o-1200x675.jpg)
From abstract to realism, Art 2 students’ are shifting their focus to contour lines by tracing multiple drawings to create a new piece.
“This is actually the first time that I have done this contour project before where we’re working with multiple contour drawings and then tracing those contour drawings and turning it into a different composition,” art teacher Emily deLarios said. “So it’s really I didn’t know what to expect. But I’m really pleasantly surprised by the way people are choosing to combine their contour drawings and turn them into a bigger composition. And then we’re going to come back and add value or color or pattern, and then they’re going to kind of turn into their own finished artworks.”
I’m really pleasantly surprised by the way people are choosing to combine their contour drawings and turn them into a bigger composition,
— art teacher Emily deLarios
The first time deLarios has done this project, she’s impressed by the student’s creativity.
“My favorite part so far is just seeing what students are coming up with as they’re putting this together because like I said, I haven’t done this one before,” deLarios said. “And so when sometimes I know something is going to work, but I don’t know exactly how, and then it’s always amazing to see what our talented students can come up with.”
With the light boxes in class being used, junior Tuhina Das took their art outside of the classroom yesterday.
“So the back lighting from the rotunda windows helps with adding the tracing onto the drawing paper,” Das said. “Basically what it’s doing is like we have our piece of tracing paper attached to the back of our actual drawing paper. So in order to transfer stuff and see the lines of the paper underneath, we need a backlit source. So the rotunda windows offer that lighting and it’s a pretty cool place to work in.”
Although the process can be a bit monotonous for sophomore Sydney Kylie, she’s excited to see the final product.
So the back lighting from the rotunda windows helps with adding the tracing onto the drawing paper,
— junior Tuhina Das
“It’s kind of repetitive because you have to repeat and trace a lot of stuff,” Kylie said. “Like, yet we do contour drawings. Then we had to trace those onto the tracer paper a bunch of times. Then we have to trace the tracer paper onto the final paper, and then we’re gonna have to trace that with Sharpie. Yeah. You can kind of like merge things and I kind of like looks weird when they fit together, which is really cool. And then if you like, look at it one like it looks like one thing. And if you look at it another way, it looks like something else.”
This story was originally published on Wingspan on October 19, 2023.
