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Three upper school students claim YoungArts Awards
Three RE students won recognition from the annual YoungArts competition, placing in the top 10 percent of more than 11,000 entrants from across the nation in various artistic disciplines. Sirja Jõeveer '25 won a YoungArts Award in the category of Dance/Ballet; Patrick Keedy Brown '26 won in Writing/Poetry; and Taylor Smith '25, in Photography. YoungArts is a national foundation established by Lin and Ted Arison in 1981 to identify and nurture the top young artists in America.
Jõeveer was one of eight ballet dancers in the nation honored in the dance category, earning the recognition for her high-level technique and artistry. She submitted a three-minute video of her ballet technique and a two-minute solo. The dance discipline encompasses ballet, choreography, hip hop, jazz, modern-contemporary, tap and world dance forms.
Keedy Brown submitted a collection of six poems, most of which he wrote during his summer at the Kenyon Review Young Writers' Workshop. The poems were heavily inspired by his experiences growing up in Miami and witnessing all forms of change – in himself and the world around him. One of the poems, "Immaculata", had been published in The New Raider magazine after it won first place in the inaugural Poetry Night at The Barnacle Historic State Park last spring.
Smith was recognized for a series of 10 black-and-white portraits taken over the course of three years. The body of work was inspired by Robert Frost's ephemeral description of nature and childhood. The photographs focus on the similarities between childhood and nature, particularly their joint state of impermanence, as well as the magical relationships that form when nature and childhood collide.
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Keedy Brown submitted a collection of six poems, most of which he wrote during his summer at the Kenyon Review Young Writers' Workshop. The poems were heavily inspired by his experiences growing up in Miami and witnessing all forms of change – in himself and the world around him. One of the poems, "Immaculata", had been published in The New Raider magazine after it won first place in the inaugural Poetry Night at The Barnacle Historic State Park last spring.
Smith was recognized for a series of 10 black-and-white portraits taken over the course of three years. The body of work was inspired by Robert Frost's ephemeral description of nature and childhood. The photographs focus on the similarities between childhood and nature, particularly their joint state of impermanence, as well as the magical relationships that form when nature and childhood collide.
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Founded in 1903, Ransom Everglades School is a coeducational, college preparatory day school for grades 6 - 12 located on two campuses in Coconut Grove, Florida. Ransom Everglades School produces graduates who "believe that they are in the world not so much for what they can get out of it as for what they can put into it." The school provides rigorous college preparation that promotes the student's sense of identity, community, personal integrity and values for a productive and satisfying life, and prepares the student to lead and to contribute to society.