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Stories from Nicholas Senn High School
James Hosking & Senn High School
Project Overview
My CPS Lives 2022 – 2023 project focuses on LGBTQ+ youth at Senn High School. I will also be photographing a LGBTQ+ Senn faculty member, Meagan Zeman. They are the teacher who organizes Pride Club. Amid continued LGBTQ+ discrimination and fearmongering in American politics, this project is a way to convey and support the resilience and self-possession of today’s LGBTQ+ youth.
During portrait sessions, I asked the students to handwrite answers to a few short questions: their first name, pronouns, where they feel their most authentic self, and their hopes for the future. I photographed in black and white on medium format film in a variety of locations that show Senn’s historic interior and exterior. I also captured empty landscape shots of the school’s vine covered walls and long interior corridors.
Krista Wortendyke & Senn High School
Project Overview
As the coordinator for a CPS fine and performing arts magnet program, I find myself in my school building at hours when others are not. The quiet hallways, classrooms, closets, and corners reveal arrangements left behind by unsuspecting artists that take on new interest when they are removed from the context of the bustle of the day and the din of teenagers. Past and present are in constant collision creating over a century of layers of old and new. My images explore the history and personality of the school, the building structure, and the people who exist inside of it through the odd, funny, and strangely beautiful arrangements of objects that I find.
Jim Iska & Nicholas Senn High School
“…the Senn experience provides students a unique foundation for living, working, thriving, and leading,” Jim Iska, Photographer
Project Overview
The tremendous diversity of Senn is what many students cited to me as one of their proudest features of their school. Forming personal bonds and friendships with people coming from vastly different cultures and interests, (thanks to the addition of the IB program and Senn Arts), the Senn experience provides students a unique foundation for living, working, thriving, and leading in an ever diverse and changing world.
Looking back on my involvement at Senn over the past year, I can’t help being struck by the notion that these students are our future, and that our future is in good hands.
As it has for over a century, Senn stands at the forefront of progressive education. Ella Flagg Young would be proud.
Michelle Keim & Nicholas Senn Highschool
This semester I’m following the girls wrestling team at Senn HS which is coached by Angela Kus. Senn is the first CPS HS to have enough girls wrestling to form a team. Lakeview HS now has enough girls to form a team as well and in January the two teams met for the first ever CPS wrestling meet between two female teams. Normally girls go along to boys meets and wrestle girls if any happen to be on an opposing team or wrestle teammates or just wrestle boys to get experience in competition.
At a recent state qualifier Coach Kus’ girls team (she coaches both boys and girls teams at Senn) out wrestled her boys with 9 out of 11 of her girls placing in the tournament.
Two of the girls on her team, Bernice and Mia, are best friends and chose to join the wrestling team at Senn as their “best friend activity”. At the state qualifier Bernice placed and Mia was upset that she did not. Bernice said she would share 5th place with Mia.
Project Overview
Cecil McDonald Jr. & Senn High School
Project Overview
A More Perfect Union
I am proposing a series of interventions, actions and explorations throughout the Senn campus, I have identified (see attached for locations, materials and methodologies) spaces on campus where these happenings may take place. After a fruitful period of incubation regarding how to proceed, I have decided that it would be best to proceed as an artist working on the campus as an autonomous entity. This would allow the students to observe me and my practice without guidance or scaffolding from faculty, staff and administration. I believe it best that students encounter me and my ideas in an unexpected, arbitrary manner, a thoughtful, gentle interloper. I will be referencing Let America Be America Again, by the American poet and novelist Langston Hughes, this will be my anchor text. I suspect that these series of actions will take me right up to the holiday break. After the break I will circle back to the classroom with the Hughes poem as our guide and anchor engaging the students in a similar fashion; guiding the students to create and execute works based on works that I have demonstrated on campus as well new ideas and methods that may come from teachers and students input and insight. I believe this approach allows the student an opportunity to reflect and more importantly utilize some, if not all, knowledge and skills gained thus far, at the service of making as a civic leader and creative endeavor. Peripherally (but just as importantly) I have reached out (and secured a commitment) to the music department to have an original score created on the same themes hereto outlined. I expected to do the same with dance for a choreographed piece based on notions and concepts of our collected Americaness . I look forward to your feedback, comments and suggestions as we move forward…I am excited to be in this position and fortunate to be at Senn to put these ideas into motion.
