2024 Art Awards BBQ #207Now #awards #community @lahartanddesign2 @mwactivities @mainewestfab

 

This afternoon at the annual Art Awards BBQ students and teachers of the Maine West art program celebrated a year of success in the visual arts! The art teachers demonstrated their skills on the grill and students enjoyed socializing and celebrating each other's successes in the visual arts. Maine West art teachers - Mr. Rick Cammarata, Ms. Natalya Kljajic, Ms. Felicia Lahart, and Ms. Melissa Lloyd - presented students with certificates of achievement for their exceptional work throughout this past school year.

Congratulations to all of the Maine West visual art students! A huge thank you to the art teachers for organizing this celebratory event!

More pictures from the Art Awards BBQ can be found HERE.

Piano Recital #207Now #musiceducation @mainewestfab

 

This afternoon, students enrolled in Piano 1 and Piano 2 demonstrated the skills they have learned during the past year in the annual Piano Recital. Congratulations to all of the student performers who played today! You all did a great job!

More pictures from today's recital can be found HERE.

Thank you to piano teachers Mr. Jim Schiffer and Ms. Daniella Valdez for organizing today's recital.

Masterworks Orchestra Concert 2024 #207Now #orchestra #musiceducation @mworchestras @mainewestfab

 
Tonight, the Maine West String Project, String Orchestra, Philharmonic Orchestra and Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Ms. Daniella Valdez performed their final concert of the 2023-2024 school year, the Masterworks Orchestra Concert.

Ms. Valdez honored the achievements of students throughout the year, especially highlighting contributions by members of the graduating senior class, with an annual awards presentation.

Congratulations to all of the orchestra students on your performance tonight!

Thanks to the parent volunteers with the Maine West Fine Arts Boosters for helping out at tonight's concert!

HERE are more pictures from tonight's concert.

HERE is a link to tonight's program.

Watch a livestream of tonight's concert below! Thanks to the student broadcasters in WMTH and their teacher, Ms. Rebecca Fisher, for filming and producing tonight's concert!

Maine West Film Students Earn Awards at Midwest Media Educators' Association Film Festival 2024! #207Now #mediaarts #excellence #awards #natas @wmth_west @mainewestfab @mmeatv

Students in Maine West's broadcasting program distinguished themselves as some of the best student broadcasters and filmmakers in the region by earning a number of awards at the Midwest Media Educators' Association (MMEA) Film Festival on Friday, April 26! The MMEA Film Festival has been around for 31 years, and it involves all of the Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana media arts programs. Awards from this film festival distinguish students as some of the best regional student filmmakers. This year, there were over 400 student entries.

Congratulations to all of the students on your incredible achievements! We are so proud of you!

Congratulations to our media arts teacher, Mr. Rebecca Fisher, on her students' achievements!

More photos and video from the MMEA Film Festival can be found HERE.

Brooke Capper - 1st Place - Natural Audio News Package

Daniel Meckes - 2nd Place - News Package 

Aaron Rivera - 5th Place - Natural Audio News Package

Katie Huk - 5th Place - News Package 

Warrior Weekly - 5th Place - News Program - Written and Edited by Brooke Capper, Ash Carmichael and Damian Liakopolous and produced by the entire Warrior Weekly Staff - Avery Rizzi, Ben Pluta, Estelle Ghinea, Sami Alam, Katie Huk, and Daniel Meckes.

Avery Rizzi - 3rd Place - Demonstration 

Alesandro Fajardo and Damian Liakopolous - 5th Place- Commercial 

Students who received NATAS (student Emmy award) nominations were also honored at the MMEA Film Festival. Here are the student nominees from West this year:

Brooke Capper, Addie Webb, Marjorie Padar, Alesandro Fajardo, Jude Santos, Mickael Drimboi - NATAS Nomination - Fantastic Feasts and Where To Find Them

Bryan Leon, Alesandro Fajardo, Owen Wedge, Joe Chamlin - NATAS Nomination - Commercial for Mountain View Adventure Center

Daniel Meckes - NATAS Nomination - Bill Fireside's Honor Flight Documentary

Damian Liakopolous - NATAS Nomination - Say Something PSA

Des Plaines Choral Festival 2024 #207Now #choir #sing @mainewestchoir @mainewestfab @62schools

 

Today, Maine West had the pleasure of hosting choral students from our elementary and middle partner schools. Hundreds of students joined their voices together in song through clinics during the day and in the evening concert. It was a sight and sound to behold!

Thank you to all of the District 62 teachers and to Mr. Jim Schiffer, Maine West Choir Director, who made today's event possible for these students!

Special thanks to guest conductor Ms. Katie Colby from Jones College Prep.

HERE is the program from the concert.

HERE are more pictures from today's Des Plaines Choral Festival.

Monster Project Art Show! #207Now #digitalart #collab @mainewestfab

 

Advanced Digital Art students joined forces with students in the Educational Life Skills (ELS) program to make collaborative artwork. The project afforded Advanced Digital Art students the opportunity to work with a client - taking direction and inspiration from the ELS students' sketches and leading client conversations to create and revise designs until the client was happy with the product. 

Thank you to Maine West's digital art teacher, Ms. Natalya Kljajic, on her vision for this wonderful collaboration!

Please enjoy some of the student artwork that resulted from this project below: