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Waldorf Student Wins International Sculpture Contest

Hi David Kennedy and Waldorf Today,

I wanted to thank you for posting the Routes of Sculpture Italian sculpture contest announcement article last fall.  I found it an exciting prospect and offered entering it as a choice to my class of Embossing students in January.

Only one student chose to enter the contest.  She is a senior and it took a lot of focus and commitment for her to decide to add an extra task in the final semester of Waldorf high school, just before her senior project presentation was due.  She is brave that way.

We worked together, going through the application process, the production of the relief sculpture, the artist’s statement, and all the requirements for entering the contest.  My student took time during her spring break to get everything done on top of all the other obligations of her senior year.  All that hard work paid off as the artwork made it into the finals!  We were very excited!  What an honor to be in the finals.

It turns out our school, Youth Initiative High School, was the only school in the Western Hemisphere to submit an entry.  Being a finalist required that we mail the actual artwork off to Italy at the end of April, to be displayed with the other finalists.  While the 12th grade class was off on a week-long biking expedition, I mailed the package to Italy.  We then waited to hear the results of the judges…

We just received word on May 8th that Kaya Cameron, my courageous and talented student, won the contest!

Two works were chosen as winners- the other is from a school in Lecce, Italy.  We are very pleased and excited to go to Italy this coming September to learn to sculpt Carrara marble and create the sculpture to adorn the wall of the Hospital of Paediatric Cardiac Surgery G. Pasquinucci in Massa, Tuscany, Italy.

I want to thank Waldorf Today for making me aware of this contest.  It has provided a life-changing opportunity for Kaya and we are very grateful to have had it because of your posting.

Thank you so much.  Keep connecting the Waldorf world!

With much gratitude,
Martha Buche
Fine and Practical Arts Teacher,
Youth Initiative High School, Viroqua, WI