by Sophie Nahorski For students interested in pursuing a career in design, joining the Batavia High School graphic design club is an opportunity for students to further develop skills necessary to make that interest a reality.  As you walk into the graphics room, one will see the walls covered in all of the previous students […]

By Amanda Melvin There is a multitude of awesome clubs here at Batavia High School, from ultimate frisbee to book club, but not many like the new art mart. Why is it so unique? The club itself, and the items sold, are made by students, run by students, and sold by students.  Art Mart sells […]

By Alice Neville NAHS student Ella Villacreses shares the process she goes through in creating a piece of artwork. Finding Inspiration For ideas, I generally go off of a simple concept which I then make more complex as I continue the piece. My ideas randomly pop up and it’s very hard to commit to certain […]

By Eli Balisi and Brynne Albert When COVID-19 first shut down schools across the country, one thing that was lost was a sense of community and creativity among students. However, in spite of those difficulties, members of the National Art Honors Society here at BHS renewed efforts to improve the artistic quality of the school […]

By Sarah Sinovich There is this old saying that stories and poetry are to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. By whatever means of any media/art, like a good story or a good poem, it must be either/or (disturbing or comfortable), but a captivating story that truly forces you to ponder life is the true […]

By Sarah Sinovich Ye (Kanye West), Lady A (formerly known as Lady Antebellum), and Justin Bieber are musicians that are highly criticized and deemed as controversial. I don’t particularly listen to their music every day because it just simply isn’t my favorite. Sure, I like a few off of each of their albums but they […]

By Sarah Sinovich The recent 2021 Grammy award winner, Harry Styles, has been rumored to drop his third album before the end of March 2022, according to fan speculation and Sony’s CEO Rob Stringer. With this in mind, as a possible new album is around the corner I wanted to rank his current discography. As […]

By Elisa Reamer Kenna Ducoff, a senior at Batavia High School, sits in her bedroom for hours working on different projects.  She shakes in her seat at a club meeting, becoming more and more anxious for it to end. Ducoff needs all the time she can get in order to get everything she has on […]

By Abby Kent Grace Skiba The possible artist “I got into drawing by picking up a crayon as a child and never putting it back down.” My favorite thing to do in my free time is draw, watch Netflix, and hang out with my friends. I got into drawing by picking up a crayon as […]

By Claire Gearhart There are four major different ways to learn; art classes fill up three of those. Taking out art classes has been a raging debate between school boards across the country. Taking these classes out is becoming more and more popular yearly and is quickly spreading. Many adults just don’t see the benefit […]