Creative Arts Champlain

Below you will find the winning entries from our In Transition/En Transition Creative Arts Contest for high school students. We received a number of outstanding submissions and would like to thank everyone who participated. Emilie Parenteau took top honours with her mixed media book project. Second place prize was awarded to Claudel Routhier for her black and white photograph. Third place went to Caelen Costigan-Roberts for her painting. And an honourable mention went to Milyncia Létourneau Prud’homme.  All the award winners were presented with certificates  at our 38th annual year-end exhibition and film screening. Congratulations to everyone!

These three films explore the idea of the photographic frame and how it relates to time. Forget the Decisive Moment and think about the extension of the temporal.  Andre Lai, Xavier Bleau-Prévost and Caoimhe Beaulé have all created beautiful time pieces for their Image and Light photo option class.

Stillness in Time by Andre Lai

Clementine by Xavier Bleau-Prévost

Daydreamer by Caoimhe Beaulé

The images below, from Melissa Del Balso and Tsz Ho Tsang, are documentations of their time based sculptural interventions – made for a third semester DISA sculpture class.

The following project are from a 3rd semester sculpture class in our DISA profile.

The following images are from an assignment given in the Image and Light option class. The students were asked to make a series of black and white portraits inspired by a photographer or a period style. They picked photographers as disparate as Horst P. Horst, Diane Arbus, Katy Grannan etc. They also seemed to like the idea of the classical Hollywood portrait. Here are a few examples:

Strange things happen when time can be revisited, in this humorous ode to awkwardness by Xavier Bleau Prevost.

Andre Lai’s playful, rhythmic, short film based on an original musical performance piece.

Paintings from DISA students.

Marie Miclette (left) and Isabelle Caty (right) each won scholarships valued at $750, which were awarded during Champlain’s 2010 “Desjardins Scholarship Evening”.  Marie received an Entrance Scholarship as the Creative Arts student with the highest academic average based on high school results, and Isabelle won one of the Bourses d’Excellence-Desjardins as the Creative Arts student with the highest Cote R scores in her first two semesters.  Bravo!

Fourth semester photo students were given the task of photographing and designing a billboard to bring awareness to a social concern. Here are a few of the projects.