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ARTS AND RECREATION<br />
GREENWOOD VILLAGE ARTS<br />
AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL<br />
2019 SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS<br />
On July 2, the Greenwood Village Arts and Humanities<br />
Council awarded their annual scholarships. The awards go to<br />
two graduating seniors attending Arapahoe County schools<br />
or living in Greenwood Village, that are pursuing degrees in<br />
the arts. Each student receives $3,000 and their high schools<br />
receive a $500 award for their art program. This year’s<br />
winners are Hanna Dotson from Grandview High School<br />
and Isaac Shin from Cherry Creek High School.<br />
HANNA DOTSON<br />
Hanna Dotson<br />
graduated from<br />
Grandview High<br />
School in May 2018.<br />
As a lover of theater<br />
she has performed in<br />
and worked on 23<br />
shows between 6th<br />
grade and senior year<br />
including children’s<br />
theatre, high school<br />
theatre and<br />
professional theatre in the Denver community. Hanna has<br />
taken classes at the Denver Center for The Performing Arts<br />
for three years and this year worked as a student counselor<br />
there. Hanna’s all-time favorite performing experience is<br />
Broadway to Africa, an annual musical revue that helps bring<br />
teenagers from Africa and the Middle East to YoungLife<br />
camps. When she is not taking voice, acting and dance<br />
lessons, she enjoys game night with her family and baking<br />
cookies. She is excited to spend the next four years doing<br />
what she loves most as she pursues her Bachelor of Fine Arts<br />
in Musical Theater at Millikin University in Illinois.<br />
ISAAC SHIN<br />
Isaac began drawing<br />
dinosaurs at a young age.<br />
Over time, he realized<br />
that his artwork always<br />
had meaning and his had<br />
been influenced by<br />
personal experiences and<br />
beliefs. He believes that<br />
art is a topic that no one<br />
will ever fully<br />
understand. People often<br />
ask him, “What does<br />
your artwork symbolize?” The idea that his compositions<br />
always needed to have artistic significance frustrated him. He<br />
just wanted to draw for fun and construct beautiful pieces.<br />
His respect for the natural beauty of the world influences the<br />
outcome of his artwork. He believes that in today’s society<br />
people are so busy in their daily lives that they fail to see the<br />
beauty in everything around them; therefore, they disrupt the<br />
natural flow of the world. He is an artist dedicated to pulling<br />
the covers off the issues and natural beauties that have arisen<br />
and existed in this world. Isaac will be pursuing his Fine Arts<br />
degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago this<br />
fall.<br />
ART WITH A HEART<br />
Renee Reese, an art instructor at the Curtis Center for the Arts, believes in the power of giving and receiving an old fashioned<br />
greeting card. She also knows the healing power of art, so she combined the two into a special class. In June, the Curtis Center<br />
for the Arts hosted “Art with a Heart.” In this class, led by Renee, students created inspirational greetings cards with watercolor to<br />
give to the Children’s Hospital of Colorado. The cards will be given to patients, parents and even staff when they need a little<br />
pick me up. The cards were filled with handwritten messages, like “Bee Strong,” and whimsical images to help brighten<br />
someone’s day and help them get through challenging times.<br />
The students had such a blast creating the cards that another<br />
class is being planned.<br />
AUGUST 2018 | GV NEWSLETTER PG. 19
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