Jewelry Workshop with Kaylee Lopez

On Thursday, February 25th, LAMP hosted a jewelry workshop, open to parents, faculty, students and staff, with costume and jewelry designer, Kaylee Lopez. 

Staff and students heard Ms. Lopez discuss her experience in the arts with dance, music, costume design and jewelry. 

Ms. Lopez discussed safety and precautionary measures that are required when working with metal arts and allowed participants to create pendants of jewelry in which they were able to take home with them. Many which made multiple pieces of jewelry!  The workshop lasted 2 hours with great success!

We thank Kaylee Lopez, for taking the time to share your creative process with G. Holmes Braddock Senior High School!



Senior, Kassandra Fallon, Carolina Cuevas, Catherine Montoya and freshman, Alejandra Camargo making jewelry

Freshman, Alejandra Camargo and jeweler, Kaylee Lopez

Junior, Mina Cash, shaping her pendant

Junior, Oscar Canas, cutting a cord for his pendant

Examples of the materials used in jewelry making

some sample jewelry made by Kaylee Lopez

Senior Carolina Cuevas and Catherine Montoya, taking a break from working in the gallery to make some jewelry at the workshop

Materials used to make pendants

Looking for the right letter to make imprints in the metal

Costume Designer and Jeweler, Kaylee Lopez

LAMP will be sponsoring our next workshop this week, Thursday, February 24th, room 1166 at 2:30PM


Costume Designer and Jeweler, Kaylee Lopez will be visiting G. Holmes Braddock Senior High School for a jewelry workshop with participants.  Come and join us for the one of the last two workshops this school year!

CONGRATULATIONS Orchestra Solo & Ensemble Results

Congratulations to the Braddock Bulldog Orchestra and Ensemble  and Mr. Sacca for their outstanding results at competition.


The students from the Braddock Orchestra participated in the FOA District Solo & Ensemble this past weekend, Saturday, February 6th,  that was hosted at Braddock.

 

Braddock Orchestra received 12 Superior and 10 Excellent ratings.

AP Art History essay contest

The Atlantic and the College Board have teamed up to recognize today's best high school essay writers with cash prizes and the chance to be published in an award-winning national magazine. The deadline is Feb. 28.


Please click on the deadline link for more information.
https://www.collegeboard.org/writing-prize?ep_ch=PR&ep_mid=11207973&ep_rid=30954335

Crazy Quilt Coffee House

 

On Wednesday, January 29th, from 7pm-9pm, Braddock's Drama department hosted its last Coffee House for the school year.  Alumni, faculty, staff and students all performed for this momentous event. 
Mom sold and raffled his brownies, while faculty, such as speech and debate teacher, Carol Cecil,  performed a prose written by Jennifer Lancaster, science teacher, Scott Steiner, sang "Chillout" by Ze Frank, in addition to other performances such as English teacher, Jorge Sosa, comic relief and writing teacher Caridad McCormick, singing Adele's "Hello", while art teacher, Haibi Figuera, drew caricatures throughout the evening.
Alumni and students came to sing and perform with a final band act closing the night.

Mrs. Caridad McCormick singing Adele's, "Hello"

Mrs. Haibi Figuera, drawing caricatures

Mr. Scott Steiner, singing, "Chillout"

Braddock drama student, working the tech room