The Connecticut Association of Schools (CAS) recognized Sasha Maskoff ’22 and Sophie Alycone ’22 for their artistic excellence at the 27th Annual High School Arts Awards on April 5. The CAS awards two seniors each year for excellence across the visual/performing arts. Sophie Alcyone: excellence in visual media Alcyone won the award for a pastel.
The Connecticut Association of Schools (CAS) recognized Sasha Maskoff ’22 and Sophie Alycone ’22 for their artistic excellence at the 27th Annual High School Arts Awards on April 5. The CAS awards two seniors each year for excellence across the visual/performing arts. Sophie Alcyone: excellence in visual media Alcyone won the award for a pastel.
Camille Eskell’s beautiful Jewish art
Camille Eskell has always been surrounded by Fez caps. She spoke on this topic, as well as many others related to her art, in a virtual talk on Thursday, April 1. At the event, she was interviewed by Dr. Sivan Rajuan Shtang, a Hadassah-Brandeis Institute (HBI) Research Associate, for about half an hour, before the floor opened up for a Q&A.
Prior to the interview, the hosts of the panel provided some background information on Fez hats in a PowerPoint. The Fez hat was described as “a cultural object that marks a politically charged cross road” between the Middle East and Africa. According to the PowerPoint, this style of hat was very popular in the times of the Ottoman Empire, to the point where it was outlawed in Turkey in 1925 with the collapse of the empire. The slideshow also showed many pictures of what the hats looked like, a good reminder considering all of Eskell’s art featured them.