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Angry Pigeons: Nico Sardi

Nico Sardi, a senior at NWA, is part of an after school program at NWA focused on creating new music through digital media.

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This year, NWA freshmen are required to take the new Mindful Studies class taught by Chris Heckman.

Old is the New Cool

This desire to step away from technology-based mediums applies to other art forms as well, as the disconnect from digital mediums can provide a much needed retreat for NWA community members. 

Angry Pigeons: Nico Sardi

Nico Sardi, a senior at NWA, is part of an after school program at NWA focused on creating new music through digital media.

Angry Pigeons: Nico Sardi

Nico Sardi, a senior at NWA, is part of an after school program at NWA focused on creating new music through digital media.

Old is the New Cool

This desire to step away from technology-based mediums applies to other art forms as well, as the disconnect from digital mediums can provide a much needed retreat for NWA community members. 

“Early Adulthood”: NWA Grows Up

Since its founding in 1997, Northwest Academy has grown...

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Angry Pigeons: Nico Sardi

Nico Sardi, a senior at NWA, is part of an after school program at NWA focused on creating new music through digital media.

Freshmen Get a Mind Full of New Class

This year, NWA freshmen are required to take the new Mindful Studies class taught by Chris Heckman.

Old is the New Cool

This desire to step away from technology-based mediums applies to other art forms as well, as the disconnect from digital mediums can provide a much needed retreat for NWA community members. 

Angry Pigeons: Henry Tuttle

Henry Tuttle, a junior at NWA, has been sailing since he was in fourth grade. When his mother signed him up for a “Learn To Sail” class, he immediately found himself enamored with the fun of it.

Skylines and Horizons

In some photos, I experimented with layering exposures, focusing on skylines and horizons. In others, the focus was on scene and perspective.

Abstract Line Drawings

Students have been experimenting with lines, shapes and textures to create graphic art in Sean Cain’s intermediate art class.

Interview: Sindya Bhanoo

My goal with every story is to explore some aspect of the human experience.

Drummond: Save Our Movie Theaters

It’s true that losing a few movie theaters is nowhere near the most pressing issue facing Portland or Oregon right now, but that doesn’t mean we should just let them wither away and die.

Angry Pigeons: Nico Sardi

Nico Sardi, a senior at NWA, is part of an after school program at NWA focused on creating new music through digital media.

Freshmen Get a Mind Full of New Class

This year, NWA freshmen are required to take the new Mindful Studies class taught by Chris Heckman.

Old is the New Cool

This desire to step away from technology-based mediums applies to other art forms as well, as the disconnect from digital mediums can provide a much needed retreat for NWA community members. 

Angry Pigeons: Henry Tuttle

Henry Tuttle, a junior at NWA, has been sailing since he was in fourth grade. When his mother signed him up for a “Learn To Sail” class, he immediately found himself enamored with the fun of it.

Letter from the Editor

The future is wildly unpredictable.

“Early Adulthood”: NWA Grows Up

Since its founding in 1997, Northwest Academy has grown from a mere 26 high school students and five staff members to a total middle...

Poems and Pictures

Yellow sheets and strawberries/a million things saved for far too long/gather now in the kitchen/like a sad guitar song.  

COMMENTARY: Mental Health Days Imperative for Students

In the current system, students are left with unmanageable workloads instead of knowledge, burnout instead of creativity and a stifling environment instead of important critical thinking skills.

Angry Pigeons: Thomas Cain

Cain sought inspiration from jazz trumpeter Donald Byrd, and admires Chet Baker’s exceptional tone on the instrument.

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Odyssey: Make It Worthwhile

Now I am free of my mask so now I can turn my life into my dream album.

The Pains of Being a Taylor Swift Fan

Swift fans struggled to get tickets to an upcoming tour, including many Northwest Academy students.

Drummond: Ditch the SAT

The SAT is an example of streamlining gone wrong.

Art

Recreating Strangers on a Train

For my Masters of Cinema project I decided to take four key moments and shots that I love from Alfred Hitchcock's...

Cyanotypes and Words

Students in Kelli Pennington’s black and white photography classes experimented with cyanotypes and words in photographs.

Track By Track: Slint: Spiderland

Slint’s Spiderland is a moody, entrancing post-punk work of art.

The Moral Dilemma

The bad acting is intentional.

Creative Writing

Poems and Pictures

Yellow sheets and strawberries/a million things saved for far too long/gather now in the kitchen/like a sad guitar song.  

The Shape Shifter: A Wizard’s Exploration of Sacred Geometry

Vertax was a wizard, but by all accounts not an entirely sane one.

The Fish

"I loved everything about the coast. The beach, the ocean breeze, the salted air that I’d gotten so accustomed to that when I went inland the air smelled bland."

Sci-Fi Ads

Students of Kyle Wiggins’ science fiction course were given the better part of a class period to create an advertisement for a potential future product that might exist in a distant dystopian/utopian world.

Four Poems

"I am filled with a heart, bigger than the moon/ It breaks the bones, the cage in my chest"

Poems and Pictures

Yellow sheets and strawberries/a million things saved for far too long/gather now in the kitchen/like a sad guitar song.  

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