Kick Bucs Student Voices

Bridget Siesel is a Senior 2D art student who has been working on their finale art project for their capstone student art exhibit. Today, she sat down to talk about her process and vision behind her pieces.

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Johnny Barquin is a Senior 2D/Design art student who has been working on their finale art project for their capstone student art exhibit. Today, he sat down to talk about his process and vision behind his pieces.

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Austin Riess is a Junior who took AP Photography this year and chose the image “Splash Shot” as his submission for the 2025 Capstone Project. It is an interesting contrast of the neatness of the golf strike and the thoughts in the athlete's head.

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Zaria Ried is a senior special projects student. Special projects is a student lead class with a teacher as a supervisor. In special projects the curriculum is created individually by the student. Zaria combined digital art and collaging to create wonderful pieces. Her first piece titles “Bubble Gum Pop” is focusing one two different aesthetics of different time periods. Her second piece “Final Memories” is a collection of her photos from childhood created into what memories look like for her. 

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Achilles talks with Art Student, Annika Mermans about her Capstone Art project. 

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Sophie Martin is a senior AP 2D art student. In AP 2D Art students must complete sustained investigations and come up with a question to theme their artwork on. They then create a collection of assorted pieces to answer the question. Her sustained investigation question is how did people of the past preserve what the future would look like? Her pieces are titled 

“Space Gas” 

“Arcade in Space”

“UFO Crossing” 

“fashion of the future”

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AP Sculpture student Akansha Swamy designed her final portfolio around various childhood myths and folklore and their histories. Her art is both whimsical and dark, given the backgrounds of certain myths, like the Tooth Fairy. Each piece tells its own compelling story. 

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AP Sculpture student Alice Stewart shares the journey of creating and the thought behind her final portfolio for class: pieces telling the story of a mother-daughter relationship from conception to adulthood, through both its ups and downs. Her art consists of multimedia pieces ranging from sculpted anatomical hearts to a sewn keepsake and each piece truly catches the eye.

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AP Sculpture student Penelope Cole discusses the inspiration behind her final portfolio, which consists of several replications of different body parts: the lungs, the head, the digestive system, etc. Her art utilizes many different sorts of media, most notably stained glass and metal.  

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You may not know too much about Charlotte Country Day Upper School instructor Tadd Daniel who is a history and yearbook teacher... but between the pages of history books, he has quite the history himself. Your host sophomore Julia Mazeine '26 talks to Mr. Daniel about his past jobs, college experiences, what brought him to Country Day and more. Get the scoop on our yearbook advisor!

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