Mount Pleasant High School Art students attended the Visual Arts Scholastic Event (VASE) at Pleasant Grove High School on February 25. Fourteen of the works entered received a score of at least 51 and medaled at the event while five earned a perfect score of 60.<\/p>\n
Earning a perfect score were Juan Castanon for his work \u201cWhat’s In The News?\u201d, Cessia Gonzalez for her work \u201cFuture Hope\u201d, Samuel Gonzalez for his work \u201cDecisive Hand\u201d, Ita-ii Luna for her work \u201cBreak Through\u201d, and Kyron Saunders for his work \u201cSpotted Rose\u201d. This is the 2nd<\/sup> year that Juan Castanon and Cessia Gonzalez have earned medals at the VASE competition.<\/p>\n In addition to the five who earned perfect scores, and Saunders who entered a second piece and earned a second medal, eight other students medaled at the event. These include Andrea Becerra (for the 3rd<\/sup> year in a row), Stacy Brown, Armando Galvan (for the 2nd<\/sup> year), Nick Jackson, Edith Landaverde (for the 2nd<\/sup> year), Daniel Landaverde, Jonathan Organista and Kachina Swafford.<\/p>\n \u201cI am so proud of all these students\u201d, said MPHS Art teacher Laura Kirkland. \u201cThey all worked extremely hard on these works to prepare for VASE. To have so many medal is a real indication of the quality of their work and their dedication to do their best.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Pictured are: First row (l-r) MPHS Art teacher Laura Kirkland, Nick Jackson (Sad Me), Kyron Saunders (Spotted Rose and Are We Just Puppets), Andrea Becerra (Melt)<\/p>\n Second row (l-r): Cessia Gonzalez (Future Hope), Stacy Brown (Puff), Ita-ii Luna (Break Through), Jonathan Organista (Dig)<\/p>\n Third row (l-r): Kachina Swafford (Lady Of The Universe), Armando Galvan (The Dance With Death), Edith Landaverde (My Family), Samuel Gonzalez (Decisive Hand)<\/p>\n Not Pictured:\u00a0 Juan Castanon (What’s In The News?), Daniel Landaverde (Pup & Boot)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mount Pleasant High School Art students attended the Visual Arts Scholastic Event (VASE) at Pleasant Grove High School on February 25. Fourteen of the works entered received a score of at least 51 and medaled at the event while five earned a perfect score of 60. Earning a perfect score were Juan Castanon for his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-high-school-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}