2009 Newman Smith Senior and AP Music Theory grant participant, Jeffrey Ou is among the final 20 contestants in the current season of America's Got Talent contest. Besides getting a "5" on the 09 College Board AP Music Theory exam, Jeffrey has accomplished much while going to high school in CFBISD.  For more on the talented young pianist, visit America's Got Talent Website.

Terry Eder, Plano Senior High AP Music Theory teacher, and wife, Merrilyn      (left), their daughter, Kimberley Ahrens, and her husband, Chris Ahrens, are all music teachers in Plano ISD. Kimberley followed in her parents' footsteps and decided to teach at Plano, where she started dating Chris. 

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Eun "Jinny" Seo is a sophomore from Euless and goes to Colleyville Heritage High School. She studies visual arts and creates two-dimensional works exploring different media. Jinny plans on studying at the School of the Arts Institute of Chicago early college summer intensive program. There she will study painting and the human figure and is looking forward to exploring new styles of painting to help her expand her own work. 

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Kathleen Raymond, AP studio art teacher at Episcopal School of Dallas was selected from teachers across the nation to participate in a two week summer institute in drawing and painting at the Teacher Institute for Contemporary Art sponsored by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. To learn more about TICA, please see the SAIC website at http://www.saic.edu/continuing_studies/teacher/index.html#tica.

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Our high schools are training some tremendous young artists, and some of that talent is on display at the 12th annual Young Masters Exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art through April 18.The exhibit, sponsored by the O'Donnell Foundation, includes 42 two-dimensional and three-dimensional works of art by students from nine area high schools that participate in the O'Donnell Foundation's AP Arts Incentive Program: Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Bryan Adams High School, Colleyville Heritage High School, Coppell High School, Creekview High School, Episcopal School of Dallas, Grapevine High School, Newman Smith High Schooland Poteet High School.To read the complete article by Robert Miller of the Dallas Morning News, see http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/columnists/rmiller/stories/DN-p2miller_05bus.ART.State.Edition1.3ce9c35.html

The Young Masters Exhibition is now a dozen years old. For those who contend that art can make a powerful differences in a young person's life, it's an outtasight concept, smoothly executed. And the handsome dividend it pays each year is the body of very cool work it produces.http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/ent/performingarts/stories/DN-artnotes_0228gd.ART.State.Bulldog.4b8a59a.html

The O’Donnell Foundation proudly announces the opening of the twelfth annual Young Masters Exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art on Friday, February 26, 2010.  The exhibition, comprised of over 42 two-dimensional and three-dimensional works of art created by students from nine area high schools participating in the O’Donnell Foundation’s AP Arts Incentive Program, will be on view February 26 through April 18, 2010 in the Museum’s concourse.  The Dallas Museum of Art is located at 1717 North Harwood in the Dallas Arts District.   Over 280 works submitted by students throughout the Metroplex were reviewed by preliminary judges Ellen Soderquist, Rick Maxwell, Dr. Michael Corris and Susan Barnett.  From those submissions, 42 works were selected for this year’s exhibition. Schools represented include BookerT. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (BTWHSPVA), Bryan Adams High School, Colleyville Heritage High School, Coppell High School, Creekview High School, Episcopal ...

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"It was a drama that largely took place behind the scenes of the great sweep of destruction, violence and final triumph of the second world war: the systematic looting of art by the Nazis, and the response and rescue effort by the United States and its allies." See the PBS interview with Robert Edsel and Jeffrey Brown on the PBS Online NewsHour's Art Beat page at http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2009/11/conversation-robert-edsel.html

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Kayla Escobedo, 2008 graduate of Booker T. Washington High School of the Performing and Visual Arts of Dallas ISD and 2008 O'Donnell Foundation Excellence in the Arts Scholarship Winner had artworks on exhibit at Harvard University's Penthouse Gallery in the Student Organization Center at Hilles through November 12, 2009. The Harvard Crimson writes "Escobedo has branched out into comics, painting, and film, while taking inspiration from literature and mythology.Escobedo’s exhibition at the SOCH Penthouse Gallery is the latest in a string of extensive contributions to the Harvard arts community. She is an illustrator for both Tuesday Magazine and the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. Her artwork has also been featured in the Harvard Advocate and last year’s “Students Choose” exhibition in the Sert Gallery of the Carpenter Center." See the article at http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2009/11/6/out-abstract-escobedo-hands/

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The 2009 Association of Texas Photography Instructors Fall Contest took place on Saturday, November 7th. The entries came from schools across Texas, plus Kansas, New York and Wisconsin. Our congratulations go out to the winners and to all of the Episcopal School of Dallas students and teachers that chose to enter this year. 

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Mark your calendars for the AT&T Performing Arts Center Grand Opening Week, October 12-18, Dallas Arts District. For more information visit the website at http://www.dallasperformingarts.org/index.aspx. Download the week's calendar for a schedule of events, locations, dates, times, and more.

“The O'Donnell Foundation announces the recipients of the 2009 Excellence in AP Arts and Music Theory Scholarship Awards. The scholarship recognizes four outstanding high school seniors who have participated in or are currently participating in the O'Donnell Foundation's Dallas-area Advanced Placement Arts and Music Theory Incentive Program.”

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“The O'Donnell Foundation recognized eleven area high school students for their work featured in this year's Young Master's Exhibition, an exhibition of forty-two selected works of art created by Advanced Placement Studio Art students.”

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