Arts & Music Festival Drumming Parade

Thanks to the generosity of Ted Oppenheimer and his family, we were able to build drums and plan a school parade on the day of the Lane Art & Music Festival. Nani Agbeli came back to present Ghanaian drumming & dancing for the second year in a row. A huge thanks to Mr. Reed Flygt, our percussion teacher extraordinaire, and to Heather McQueen, our drum artist in residency, for a fantastic collaboration.

India A - National Art Portfolio Winner

India, a dedicated art major at Lane Tech, will be traveling to New York City next week to celebrate her award-winning portfolio at the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Hers is one of four portfolios from Illinois to be honored at a NYC gallery, then an awards ceremony at Carnegie Hall.

India has developed a truly original voice in her art during all her classes at Lane. I've described her style as "pop," "punk," "granny," & "feminist," and her art makes me think of the Chicago Imagists, and their fusing of the figurative with cartooning, compositing, and dadaism, among other veins of art. Her work represents her immersion in art classes at both Lane Tech and Marwen where she has dedicated a good chunk of her free time throughout high school. She will be attending the prestigious Cooper Union school in NYC this fall.

Her print below was created in Ms. Faletto's printmaking class and won a national gold medal. Her overall sculptural portfolio, created at Marwen and in our AP 3-D Design class, won a national silver. Congratulations, India!