The Alexandria PTA 2019-2020 Reflections Art Exhibit

The Alexandria PTA is recognizing 59 students from twelve city schools in six artistic categories in the 2019-2020 Reflections art contest. Each entry showcases its creator’s interpretation of this year’s national Reflections theme, Look Within. The Alexandria PTA Committee will exhibit the work for the public on Friday, February 7, at 7:00 pm at the Minnie Howard Campus auditorium.

Reflections is a truly multidisciplinary program, featuring music composition, dance choreography, and film production as well as literature, photography, and visual arts. Students ranged widely in their interpretations of the theme as well as the categories, with dance numbers and musical pieces including individual and group performances, literature in the form of both prose and poetry, and visual art as sculpture, painting, and pencil sketches.

Each school rated its own students’ submissions and passed a small selection to the city level. Alexandria’s first-place awardees will compete further against other Virginia students at the regional and state levels. Judges from around the Alexandria community evaluated each work on their creativity, technique, and interpretation of the Look Within theme.

Winners are listed below:

Dance Choreography – INTERMEDIATE

1st Place: Saha Irwin, 4th grade, Jefferson-Houston, “beauty around you”

2nd Place: Ellie Hollywood, 3rd grade, Maury, “Irish Inside”

3rd Place: Theodora Hummel, 3rd grade, Cora Kelley, “Senorita”

Dance Choreography – MIDDLE SCHOOL

1st Place: Sophia Zabel, 6th grade, George Washington, “A Bird”

Dance Choreography – HIGH SCHOOL

1st Place: Molly Quigley, 10th grade, TC Williams, “Antidote”

Film Production – PRIMARY

1st Place: Ansel Mangum, K, Jefferson-Houston, “In the Drawer”

Film Production – INTERMEDIATE

1st Place: Eleanor Purugganan, 5th grade, George Mason, “An Anxious Day for Rabbit”

2nd Place: Rowan Dines, 3rd grade, MacArthur, “Look Within my Family”

3rd Place: Dawl Lee, 5th grade, Charles Barrett, “Past the Barrier”

Film Production – MIDDLE SCHOOL

1st Place: Olivia Longobardi, 7th grade, George Washington, “Riding is a Journey”

2nd Place: Daniel Dawit, 7th grade, Hammond, “Within the World of Flowers"

Literature – PRIMARY

1st Place: Raya Yellin, 1st grade, MacArthur, “Look in Your Heart”

2nd Place: Aiden Brydges, 1st grade, Charles Barrett, “The Playground and the Monster”

3rd Place: Matthew Demers, 2nd grade, Maury, “The Best Baseball Game in World History”

Literature – INTERMEDIATE

1st Place: Alice Reynolds, 5th grade, Mt Vernon, “Discovering Yourself”

2nd Place: Ishana O’Neil-Vira, 4th grade, Charles Barrett, “I Look Within”

3rd Place: Tagar Haiki, 4th grade, Polk, “Within Me”

Literature – MIDDLE SCHOOL

1st Place: Emily Brennan, 8th grade, Jefferson-Houston, “Hercules”

2nd Place: Charlotte Keeler, 7th grade, George Washington, “My Life in Poems”

3rd Place: Daniel Dawit, 7th grade, Hammond, “Life of a Flower”

Literature – HIGH SCHOOL

1st Place: Sara Abbas, 11th grade, TC Williams, “The Unknown”

2nd Place: Emma Lally, 11th grade, TC Williams

Music Composition – PRIMARY

1st Place: Lucy Houston, 1st grade, Charles Barrett, “Look with the Light in Your Heart”

2nd Place: Catherine Parks, 2nd grade, MacArthur, “Peace”

3rd Place: Sebastian Howell, 1st grade, Mt. Vernon, “Two As and Four Bs”

Music Composition – INTERMEDIATE

1st Place: Will MacKay, 3rd grade, MacArthur, “Ripples in the Water”

2nd Place: Evelyn Gennarelli, 4th grade, Jefferson-Houston, “I am here now”

3rd Place: Bailey Gordon, 4th grade, George Mason, “A Journey through Yourself”

Music Composition – MIDDLE SCHOOL

1st Place: Lydia Kotkis, 6th grade, George Washington, “To Be Heard”

2nd Place: Daniel Dawit, 7th grade, Hammond, “A Flute Duet”

3rd Place: Zhi McMillan, 6th grade, Jefferson-Houston, “Calming the Storm Within”

Music Composition – HIGH SCHOOL

1st Place: Jonathan Morgan Petrini, 12th grade, TC Williams, “The Waltz of the Crystal Tower”

Photography – PRIMARY

1st Place: Riley Zwiselsberger, 2nd grade, Charles Barrett, “Within the Wall of War”

2nd Place: Ryland Babcock, 1st grade, MacArthur, “I am looking at the camera through the mirror”

3rd Place: Drew Frazier, 2nd grade, Jefferson-Houston, “help more people”

Photography – INTERMEDIATE

1st Place: Zoe Corazza, 4th grade, Polk, “What’s in the Lunch Box?”

2nd Place: Gavin Zwiselsberger, 4th grade, Charles Barrett, “Through My Mom’s Eyes”

3rd Place (tie): Adeline Koly, 3rd grade, MacArthur, “A Day At the Zoo”

3rd Place (tie): Ryan Pyke, 5th grade, George Mason, “Inside the Box”

Photography – MIDDLE SCHOOL

1st Place: Abigail Altenburg, 8th grade, George Washington, “Spiralling”

2nd Place: Emily Brennan, 8th grade, Jefferson-Houston, “The Eye of the Beholder”

3rd Place: Melkite Dawit, 7th grade, Hammond, “Look”

Photography – HIGH SCHOOL


1st Place: Nathaniel Hendley, 12th Grade, T.C. Williams, “Inner Visions”

2nd Place: Sarah Devendorf, 11th Grade, T.C. Williams, “Four Windows”

3rd Place: Sarah Devendorf, 11th Grade, T.C. Williams, “Ecuadoran Window”

Visual Arts – PRIMARY

1st Place: Callen Ohlandt, 2nd grade, Cora Kelly, “Piano”

2nd Place: Lydia Schlieter, 2nd grade, Maury, “A peek into my world”

3rd Place: Ileana Chavez Crego, 1st grade, Mt. Vernon, “Size Doesn’t Matter”

Visual Arts – INTERMEDIATE

1st Place: Opshora N. Hannan, 5th grade, Patrick Henry, “Look within yourself”

2nd Place: Ruthie Robertson, 5th grade, George Mason, “The Heart of a Bear”

3rd Place: Nora Beekman, 5th grade, Mt. Vernon, “A Look Within ‘The Lost Hero’”

Visual Arts – MIDDLE SCHOOL

1st Place: Delina Adhanom, 7th grade, Patrick Henry, “choose your ending”

2nd Place: Dava Boyce, 6th grade, George Washington, “The inside is not the Outside”

3rd Place: Rawan Alfadhi, 8th grade, Hammond, “Reflections”

Visual Arts – HIGH SCHOOL

1st Place: Katherine Milone, 11th Grade, T.C. Williams, “Everyone’s fighting”

2nd Place: Claudia Martino, 10th Grade, T.C. Williams

3rd Place (tie): Marisol Vazquez, 12th Grade, T.C. Williams

3rd Place (tie): Neema Dillard, 9th Grade, T.C. Williams

Visual Arts – SPECIAL ARTIST

1st Place: Veronica Meza, 2nd grade, Polk, “Descendants 3”