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Storytime
I spent 26 days backpacking through Death Valley. When water is scarce, life harder yet more simple, what matters most becomes evident.
2020
song / soundscape
By Elias Feierabend-Peters '20
Two Boys Dancing
Past lovers who couldn’t be together grieve over “what was” and “what could have been”, learning each other’s rhythms tenderly for the first time.
2024
Oil on Canvas
By Bryan Defjan '24
Reaching Out
A little boy reaches out to the diver on the other side of the aquarium glass, encapsulated within this innocent moment of hope and harmony.
2020
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
By Sarah Dong '26
Post-Election Blues
Portrait of my friend, a queer black woman, in her room the night of the 2025 election results.
2024
Acrylic on Canvas
By Bryan Defjan '24
Vortex
An experiment with my visual synesthesia, which imparts color on 2D shapes. This piece intends to instill a sense of curious serenity.
2016
Digital Visual Art
By Andrew Lesh '19
Ebb
This image plays with scale, texture, and the physicality of water.
2016
Color Film
By Chase Porter '17
Quarantine Paintings
These two paintings were inspired by the feelings of quarantine—isolation, restlessness, and nostalgia.
2020
gouache (two images combined digitally)
By Katie Han '23
Lake Nakuru
My mom took a great photo of these skulls hanging on a tree during my trip to Kenya with my family, and wanted to recreate the image in a painting.
2017
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
By Angela Liu '23
hide my emotions
Hide my anger behind flowers // my anxiety behind moths // my sadness behind â–“â–“â–“
2018
Photoshop
By Angela He '21
Figures in Ochre
These small paintings were quick, gestural sketches that explore the beauty of the feminine form.
2018
Oil on canvas
By Cathy Yang '20
La Belleza Italiana
These pieces draw on the rich beauty of Italy to subvert ideas of what Italian art must be (i.e stuck in the Renaissance).
2017
Pen and Marker
By Ashi Agrawal '19
Into the Mist
Fog drapes over the breathtaking mountain tops and diffuses across the road of Icefields Parkway in Banff National Park, creating a sense of quietude.
2019
Acrylic on Canvas
By Sarah Dong '26
Queer Intimacy
These sculptures are abstract representations of my reflections on intimacy as being fluid, not rooted in rigid definitions.
2022
Wood sculpture
By Bryan Defjan '24
Suspended (Acropolis, Athens)
History is tied to humanity. There is something heartening about a city that takes pride in its past.
2018
acrylic on canvas
By Vedika Kanchan '23