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Fall From Grace Local Student Artist
Deb Spalding
by Katherine Fishburn Alyssa Imes of Photo by Deb Spalding
eager to get home I race down I hit the brakes park my car— Emmitsburg (pictured
right) is a student of
the highway half asleep—snap awake too late to save art. The dining room
startled by a low-flying the pile of broken feathers of her parent’s home
blur of smoky white flops resembles an art
thatabout
a barn owl hurled across museum with displays
the crowded tarmac filled with lust for wildness I start and photos of her
by the blood-soaked to thrust my hands deep into sculptures. A muse-
hands of sunset the trembling mound of white to ful elephant smiles
at you proudly with
sound the creature’s secret heart— his ceramics metallic
is this the same sleek hunter leap back when dark eyes warn me body and wire trunk; a
I’ve watched for months that claws & beak gumby giraffe made of
snatch fat black rats still have the strength screws and pipe seems
from my cattle trough? to keep me out ready to play; and a to study art history and see some of
gracefully rusty sculpture resembles the classics. While winding her way
a ship’s sail. One of her recent through London, Germany, France,
pieces features steel rods supporting Italy, and Greece, she attended a
Photography volumes of knowledge in the floating contemporary art show, she rode in
a gondola, and she watched glass
pages of books. Her favorite piece,
showing the history of cast iron, blowers. Her favorite part of the trip
allowed her to further her casting was seeing Michelangelo’s sculpture
metal talents and to use heavy iron of David in person, in Florence, Italy.
within the sculpture. Many of her “It’s incredible to see pieces of art
sculptures are from “found” objects that you’ve looked up to your whole
that Alyssa transforms into art that life,” expressed Alyssa.
can be treasured anew. When she finishes at Shepherd,
During high school, Alyssa is a Alyssa hopes to apply what she’s
2014 graduate of Catoctin High learned and artistically incorporate
School, she attended an A.P. art the knowledge within her sculptures
program at Thomas Johnson High with an architecture team, or she
School, where she was able to may work with a team of artists on
determine her artistic focus. In May, bigger art projects.
she completed her freshman year at Her parents, Laura and Jeff Imes,
Photo taken by Dick Bittner during an air show in Ocean City, Shepherd University, where she is have been Alyssa’s biggest influence.
Maryland, in June 2015. studying art with a concentration in She said, “Art is not a wealth-
oriented career, at first it can be hard
sculpture, of course.
BOLLINGER HOMES, LLC
BOLLINGER HOMES, LLC a basic level at first because they to set off on a prosperous path. My
“In college, art is taught from
parents have always encouraged my
art and allowed me to go to school
want you to make work that is
for it.” She added, “My teachers are
visually interesting. Then, as you
We specialize in... Custom Home Builder & Remodeler increase in the years, you work on next. They encouraged me to always
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do better in art and to go to school
the concept of your work. They give
Custom Homes & • Garages students simple tasks at first like for it. They gave me the confidence
to accept art as the path I want to
combining two elements of art and
Remodeling • Patios creating great things,” Alyssa said. take.”
Alyssa is a true student of art,
Bollinger Homes, LLC have been building custom homes, “I like when they give just enough as she tells the story of how her
instruction to go off of, then you
building additions and remodeling for over 20 years in • Decks make it visually awesome.” sculptures came to be, she shares a
Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. • Concrete Walks aluminum, and steel, and combining deeper connection with each part
She’s using materials such as iron,
of her sculptures because of what
• Siding & Rooing them with more fragile elements such she learned creating it. The story is
as paper and natural wood. This is conveyed through each piece, with
Call for a FREE ESTIMATE! challenging and interesting. the combination and arrangement of
Recently, Alyssa took a trip with the elements in the final look of each
Phone 301.447.6917 Shepherd students through Europe piece that gives it character.
Fax 301.447.2704
Share Your Creative Side
1 Creamery Way Email to: [email protected] • Fax to: 301-447-2946
Emmitsburg, MD 21727 Mail to: 515B East Main Street, Emmitsburg, MD 21727
rts & ntertainment Bring Your Creative Side to Light
Fall From Grace Local Student Artist
Deb Spalding
by Katherine Fishburn Alyssa Imes of Photo by Deb Spalding
eager to get home I race down I hit the brakes park my car— Emmitsburg (pictured
right) is a student of
the highway half asleep—snap awake too late to save art. The dining room
startled by a low-flying the pile of broken feathers of her parent’s home
blur of smoky white flops resembles an art
thatabout
a barn owl hurled across museum with displays
the crowded tarmac filled with lust for wildness I start and photos of her
by the blood-soaked to thrust my hands deep into sculptures. A muse-
hands of sunset the trembling mound of white to ful elephant smiles
at you proudly with
sound the creature’s secret heart— his ceramics metallic
is this the same sleek hunter leap back when dark eyes warn me body and wire trunk; a
I’ve watched for months that claws & beak gumby giraffe made of
snatch fat black rats still have the strength screws and pipe seems
from my cattle trough? to keep me out ready to play; and a to study art history and see some of
gracefully rusty sculpture resembles the classics. While winding her way
a ship’s sail. One of her recent through London, Germany, France,
pieces features steel rods supporting Italy, and Greece, she attended a
Photography volumes of knowledge in the floating contemporary art show, she rode in
a gondola, and she watched glass
pages of books. Her favorite piece,
showing the history of cast iron, blowers. Her favorite part of the trip
allowed her to further her casting was seeing Michelangelo’s sculpture
metal talents and to use heavy iron of David in person, in Florence, Italy.
within the sculpture. Many of her “It’s incredible to see pieces of art
sculptures are from “found” objects that you’ve looked up to your whole
that Alyssa transforms into art that life,” expressed Alyssa.
can be treasured anew. When she finishes at Shepherd,
During high school, Alyssa is a Alyssa hopes to apply what she’s
2014 graduate of Catoctin High learned and artistically incorporate
School, she attended an A.P. art the knowledge within her sculptures
program at Thomas Johnson High with an architecture team, or she
School, where she was able to may work with a team of artists on
determine her artistic focus. In May, bigger art projects.
she completed her freshman year at Her parents, Laura and Jeff Imes,
Photo taken by Dick Bittner during an air show in Ocean City, Shepherd University, where she is have been Alyssa’s biggest influence.
Maryland, in June 2015. studying art with a concentration in She said, “Art is not a wealth-
oriented career, at first it can be hard
sculpture, of course.
BOLLINGER HOMES, LLC
BOLLINGER HOMES, LLC a basic level at first because they to set off on a prosperous path. My
“In college, art is taught from
parents have always encouraged my
art and allowed me to go to school
want you to make work that is
for it.” She added, “My teachers are
visually interesting. Then, as you
We specialize in... Custom Home Builder & Remodeler increase in the years, you work on next. They encouraged me to always
• Additions
do better in art and to go to school
the concept of your work. They give
Custom Homes & • Garages students simple tasks at first like for it. They gave me the confidence
to accept art as the path I want to
combining two elements of art and
Remodeling • Patios creating great things,” Alyssa said. take.”
Alyssa is a true student of art,
Bollinger Homes, LLC have been building custom homes, “I like when they give just enough as she tells the story of how her
instruction to go off of, then you
building additions and remodeling for over 20 years in • Decks make it visually awesome.” sculptures came to be, she shares a
Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. • Concrete Walks aluminum, and steel, and combining deeper connection with each part
She’s using materials such as iron,
of her sculptures because of what
• Siding & Rooing them with more fragile elements such she learned creating it. The story is
as paper and natural wood. This is conveyed through each piece, with
Call for a FREE ESTIMATE! challenging and interesting. the combination and arrangement of
Recently, Alyssa took a trip with the elements in the final look of each
Phone 301.447.6917 Shepherd students through Europe piece that gives it character.
Fax 301.447.2704
Share Your Creative Side
1 Creamery Way Email to: [email protected] • Fax to: 301-447-2946
Emmitsburg, MD 21727 Mail to: 515B East Main Street, Emmitsburg, MD 21727
