FCES PTSA 2.18.15 - Reflections

The Reflections program was founded by Mary Lou Anderson in 1969 and provides students an opportunity for recognition and access to the arts which boosts student confidence and success in the arts and in life. Each year, students in pre-K through grade 12 create and submit original works of art in response to a student-created theme selected through the annual Reflections Theme Search Contest. The theme for the 2024-2025 program is "Accepting Imperfection".

Students submit their completed works of art in one or more of the available arts categories: Dance Choreography, Film Production, Literature, Music Composition, Photography, Visual Arts. While the primary focus of Reflections is a celebration of creativity through positive recognition, finalists from local PTAs will move on to their council PTA, then finalists from councils will move on to the state round. Washington State PTA finalists who receive an “Outstanding Interpretation” award will advance to the National PTA round.

All six 2024-2025 entries from FCES have advanced to the SVSD council level. After judging at that level, two works have been selected to move on to the state level.

PRIMARY DIVISION (Preschool - Grade 2)

Visual Arts

Ruby Chapman

- Title: "Nothing Has To Be Perfect In A Forest"
- Statement: "This drawing is of mostly a river in a forest. Nothing is perfect, but when I imagine a river in a forest, I don’t imagine it to be perfect. I imagine it to be good."

Maksymilian Kania

- Title: "The Gap in the Mouth"
- Statement: "I drew a self-portrait to show you my smile. It's not perfect right now, and it might never be, but I like it like that. It's always changing, and I accept it every day."

INTERMEDIATE DIVISION (Grades 3-5)

Literature

Amishi Waghray

- Title: "Don’t Hide Your Beauty" *STATE QUALIFIER*
- Statement: "I wrote about my ethnicity and how I had felt different because of my skin color. As I learned that we might be different yet we are all beautiful in our own way, I embraced myself and became self-confident. This changed my perspective towards everything!"

Hadley Kemp

- Title: "Last Summer"
- Statement: "I wrote an essay about breaking my arm and how I accepted that it might never completely heal and be straight again."

Don't Hide your Beauty-Amishi Waghray 5th grade Reflections 2 - aditi waghray (1).pdf

Hadley Kemp Reflections 2024 - Hadley Kemp (1).pdf

Visual Arts

Hadley Kemp

- Title: "Perfect To Me" *STATE QUALIFIER*
- Statement: "My bunny Blue is a breed that is supposed to have two lop ears. But he only has one; his other ear sticks straight up. This imperfection makes no difference in how much I love him."

Photography

Liliana Kania

- Title: "Feeling Grumpy"
- Statement: "One morning, I woke up feeling grumpy. I went downstairs for breakfast to make myself a sandwich. My sandwich has cucumber eyes, a red bell pepper mouth and eyebrows, and a half cucumber nose. It mirrors my imperfect and unwanted feelings (like feeling grumpy). I call this sandwich 'my grumpy sandwich.' I look down at my grumpy sandwich and... I eat it. That is how I accept my imperfect morning."

Participation is organized by student age and grade levels. Student works are critiqued against others in the same grade division. This allows recognition and judging of artworks by appropriate developmental age and skill levels. The grade divisions are:

Primary: Pre-school – Grade 2

Intermediate: Grades 3 – 5

Only original works of art are accepted. The six art areas are:

Dance Choreography: originally choreographed dance composition.

Film Production: original works, with or without sound, of animation, narrative, documentary, experimental or music video/film.

Literature: works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, prose, drama, short stories and lyrics.

Music Composition: original musical composition, with or without words.

Photography: color or black and white, included techniques: photogram, negative sandwich, and multiple exposure.

Visual Arts: drawing, painting in tempera, oil, acrylic, watercolor & t-shirt paints, computer generated art, two-dimensional collage, printmaking, needlework & leather tooling.

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