In this year of online and hybrid learning, teaching arts classes has been especially challenging. Not only have teachers had to reimagine their lessons for online and socially distant learning, but keeping students interested and engaged when they cannot perform together, or create in an art studio, has added extra layers of complexity.
Within each discipline — theater, dance, film, vocal music, instrumental music, computer-assisted visual arts and handcrafted visual arts — students have been nominated in specific specialties that highlight the area of the discipline in which they are the most accomplished. For instance, in theater, a student may be nominated in either acting, musical theater performance or theatrical design.
Following this initial nomination, a panel of arts educators narrow down the list and choose semi-finalists to move on to a round of in-person interviews. The semi-finalists will be announced on Sundays beginning April 11. The top Artist of the Year for each discipline and finalists in each specialty will be announced May 2.
Congratulations to Rosary’s nominees for the OC Register Artist of the Year:
Commercial Dance
Alyssa Santos
Animation & Visual Effects
Taylor Bastidas
Caroline Linton
Theater (acting)
Anna DiCrisi
Katie Thomas
Theater (musical theater)
Claire Early
Computer Assisted Visual Arts
Lolani Blas
Jasmine Vodhanel
Handcrafted Visual Arts (ceramics)
Brooke Medina
Handcrafted Visual Arts (hand drawing)
Katie Fang
Tahlia Garcia
Maggie Lazo