‘Meet the ATA: Halloween Edition’ Review

By Camille Yost On October Friday the 13th, Advanced Theater Arts presented to Tustin High School a wonderful production of ‘Meet the ATA: Halloween Edition’ showcase. The ten different scenes captured both the spookiness and comedic takes on the holiday dedicated to the dead. A notable scene, “Kev Burger” was about a couple who stopped…

A Head Full of Dreams

By Yaire Alfaro   “In every walk of nature one receives more than he seeks” – John Muir “Though I’ve grown old, the bell still rings for me as it does for all who truly believes” – Chris Van Allsburg “You can close your eyes to things you do not want to see, but you cannot…

Top 10 Art Pieces

By Karimar Gatica Art has long since been a mode of cultural statements that have helped us navigate the aesthetic history, if you will, of different times and places. It has the ability to captivate the masses as it is a universal language of expression, but among the thousands upon thousands of art pieces created…

Color Your Way to Calm

By: Gigi Hume As kids, we all had memories of coloring, wasting away our days drawing houses, stick figures, just taking inspiration from anything around us. But as we age, our love for a coloring book begins to fade in favor of other hobbies and interests. However, research discovered in a psychological study has turned…

Aren’t You Impressed?

By: Nayeli Medina and James Smith Throughout time one thing that has been consistently coming with the years is change; perhaps one of the greatest innovations in history is the ever-changing art and the artists who bring it to existence, one of these being impressionism. Impressionism was introduced circa the 1870s, ending the Realist period,…

Conceptions Through Projections

By: Gigi Hume You may have seen the popular Brandy Melville “Raise Boys and Girls the Same Way” tee flaunted around the school halls promoting the ever-growing feminist movement. I myself have the shirt. When I initially saw it in stores I fell in love with the concept and wanted to know the name and…

My World With Strings

In this series of art, Lara Pina, Chelsie Emlinger & Evelyn Carrillo will each be making a piece of work that embodies a topic that they decide. Lara draws, Chelsie writes short stories, and Evelyn writes poetry. This series has been titled “My World With Strings”     Lighting My World With Lies:  My body…

Beautiful Tragedy

  By: Tanya Soto “I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best.”-Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) A broken collarbone, a broken spinal column, broken ribs and perhaps a broken soul, Frida Kahlo painted what she felt; whether it was the pain in her body, or the happiness…