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S T U D E N T   A W A R D S / E X H I B I T S


 

2011-12

now teaching @ HAAT/ Humanitas Academy of Art & Technolgy (LAUSD, District 5, Esteban Torres campus, East Los Angeles)

 

Photography

 

  • Semifinalist, Photography, Music Center Spotlight Award

 

2010-11

 

Scholastic Art Awards

Photography - 44 total:

  • National Medal (1)
  • Gold Level (7), 
  • Silver Level (8)
  • Silver Level (2), senior portfolios: 8 photos
  • Honorable Mention (29)
  • Honorable Mention (1),  senior portfolio: 8 photos

2009-10

Photography

  • Grand Prize Winner, Music Center Spotlight Award
  • 1st Place, 32nd Congressional District Art Contest (Judy Chu) 
  • Semifinalist, Photography, Music Center Spotlight Awards
  • Scholastic Art Awards: Gold Level (4); Silver Level (3); Honorable Mention (3)

Animation

  • 1st place, Latino HS Student Film Festival, Downtown Indepedent Movie Theater.

2008-09

Animation & Video

(blog & animations)

  • Finalist, LA Film Festival, Italian Cultural Center, Westwood - three students, animation project
  • 1st place, HS Animation, Motion 08, international animation contest: three students, animation project
  • 1st place, Animation, Reel Rasquache Film Festival, Cal State LA - ten students, three animations
  • 2nd place, Animation, Southeast Student Film Festival, Edwards Cinema, organized by Assembly member Hector de la Torre – eight students, 2 animations
  • Finalist, Latino HS Student Film Festival, National Center for the Preservation of Democracy - twenty-seven students, eight animations
  • Forty(+) students: awarded full scholarship to Art Center College of Design’s Saturday High School, 04-09

2007-08

Photography

  • Gold Key, National, Photography, Senior Portfolio (8 photos), Scholastic Art & Writing, Ceremony at Carnegie Hall, NYC
  • Gold Key, Regional, Design, Senior Portfolio, Scholastic Art & Writing, Ceremony at Disney Hall, LA
  • Finalist, Music Center Spotlight Awards, Exhibit/Ceremony at Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena

Video

  • 1st& 2nd place, Animation, Reel Rasquache Film Festival, Cal State LA – 2 students, 2 animations
  • 1st place, Music Video, Reel Rasquache Film Festival, Cal State LA – 1 student, 1 animation
  • 1st & 2nd place, Video, Personal Narrative, Southeast Student Film Festival, Edwards Cinema, organized by Assembly member Hector de la Torre – 2 students, 2 videos
  • 7 Finalists, Latino HS Student Film Festival, 7 students, 7 videos

2006-07

Photography

  • Student wins Nicholas Deily Scholarship to attend Santa Fe Summer Photo Workshop (living expenses included)
  • Ten students: win 10 of the 13 statewide awards of the first annual Society for Photographic Education HS student photo contest, 06
  • Four students: win 4 of the 5 high school awards of the California Sate Community Colleges Media Arts Awards contest, 07
  • Twelve students: Scholastic Art & Writing, Otis College of Art & Design: Photography portfolio category: gold key award, plus ten honorable mentions; photography single image category: silver key award

Video

  • Four students: team of 4 win 2nd place in the district-wide Info-Tech Digital Storytelling contest, LA Convention Center, April, 07

1999-06

Photography

  • Eighteen students: Expressing Feelings: Photo with Essay, juried exhibits: Art Center, Watts Towers, Olvera St. Gallery, Hollywood Library, 01-06
  • Twenty-five students: juried LAUSD Art Shows: LACMA, 2000; Viva Gallery, 2000; Dodger Stadium, 2001; UCLA Hammer Museum, 03
  • Twenty students: ribbons, LA County Fair Photo Competition, 1st place portrait; 2nd place portfolio; Thummer Award (most creative), 99-00
  • Eighteen students: juried Faces of LA exhibit, Democratic National Convention (some photos printed on forty-foot-high banners)
  • Fifteen students: juried exhibit, Congressman Waxman, West LA Art Academy, 02
  • Four students: Yoginis Art Gallery, “We the People: Seeing our Resistance,” Eagle Rock, 03
  • Thirty students: Eye School, Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock, LAUSD’s 1st intra-school juried photo show, students win all 1st and 2nd places, Gallery – Coordinated first intra-school, juried photo exhibit, Art Center College of Design and J. Paul Getty Museum judges, 00-01
  • Thirty-five students: Luis Rodriguez (“Always Running” author) and his Tia Chucha’s Art Gallery, Sylmar – Coordinated student photo show at Tia Chucha’s, 02-03
  • Twenty students: Greenway Court Theater, “Concrete Jungle,” – collaborated with filmmaker in making a film about my students’ photos writings about them. Mixed with interviews and music. It became a professionally staged theater production projected onto Green Theater a theater stage, 03
  • Reach-LA – Helped eight students complete after-school mentor program in downtown LA for portfolio, career advisement. Culminating with student show at Track 16, Bergamot Station, 01-02
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