RE Log Spring 2019

SPRING 2019 Ransom Everglades LOG 29 Artistic Prowess MS and US art students recognized The prestigious Beaux Arts Student Showcase accepted the artwork of six RE Middle School students – Ricky Sucre Gil ’23, Natasha Rodriguez ’23, Harrison Stone ’24, Jacob Katz ’24, Francisco Gomez Rivas-Vazquez ’24  and Myles Heller ’24 – into its annual juried show. The students’ works were displayed at the Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami Jan. 12-13, and Sucre Gil earned first place in the Digital Art category. Upper School art students also show- cased their work at the Visual Arts Show throughout the Ransom Campus begin- ning Nov. 15, exhibiting a range of projects from ceramic pinch pots to powder portraits to black glassware renderings. Meanwhile, a portrait by Aliya Hollub ’19 has been displayed in the U.S. Capitol Two dozen RE students paired up with students from Booker T. Washington Senior High for the schools’ annual weeklong cultural and educational ex- change, with half of the students meeting on the BTW campus and half connecting at RE. The partners attended classes and experienced campus life together from Jan. 28 to Feb. 1, 2019, ending with an emotional dinner at RE and thoughtful in Washington, D.C., since the summer of 2018, when Hollub won first place in the annual Congressional Arts Competition conducted by Florida Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. The Upper School students work under the direction of Visual Arts Department Chair Jose Rodriguez and arts faculty Astrid Dalins, Jorge Guzman and Matt Stock. The Middle School students learn under Elsa Muñoz, Connie Hyde and Ellen Grant. Powerful Connection Students enjoy exchange with Booker T. Washington program on social justice at Florida International University. City of Miami Commissioner Keon Hardemon and WPLG Local 10 news anchor Terrell Forney spoke at the FIU event along with BTW Principal William Aristide and Ransom Everglades Assistant Dean for Student Activities Corinne Rhyner. Rhyner, faculty member Jenny Carson ’03 and college counselor Blair Betts helped execute the exchange with the support of RE’s administration and the board’s Student Life and Inclusion Committee. The exchange has become an impor- tant tradition at both schools, each of which is historically significant: Twenty- three years after Paul Ransom founded Ransom Everglades as the Adirondack- Florida School in 1903, Booker T. Washington opened to black children in Miami. The RE participants: Juanchi Roca- Paisley ’19, Anderson Murphy ’19, Coco Sell ’19, Mackenzie White ’19, Abigail Roberts ’19, Phoebe Beber- Frankel ’20, Diego Duckenfield- Lopez ’20, Cynthia Jelke ’19, Nick Namias ’20, Nathalie Han ’19, David Fryd ’19, Sarah Rahman ’19, Lily Karson ’19, Izzy Szomstein ’20, Addyson Weintraub ’20, Grace Waibel ’19, Thomas Murphy ’19, Aliya Hollub ’19, Annabel Franklin ’20, Asher Lieberman ’20, Maggie McDowell ’19, Preston Edmunds ’20, Jack Fitzpatrick ’20 Ricky Sucre Gil ’23 , Digital Art, Literal Lines