ALEXA DRUYANOFF

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Education:

Attending Yale University 

Graduated Cum Laude from Harvard-Westlake '22 

The Wizard of Art

Kline Academy of Fine Art

Harvard-Westlake:

Intro to Programming I & II

Drawing and Painting: Technique

Drawing and Painting: Expression 

AP Studio Art: Drawing 

AP Studio Art: 2-D Design

Drawing and Painting I/ History and Art of Modern Europe 

Art History Honors

Directed Study: The Aesthetics of Resistance/graphic design

SAIC Summer Advanced Drawing and Painting (2020)

Drawing Intensive at Brown University (2021)

Righteous Conversations Project, learning stop motion animation and working with Holocaust survivors,

film called "A Ship Called Lili: The Lillian Trilling Story" shown in the Indie Memphis Film Fest,

New Optics Film Festival,  Harvard-Westlake's WESTFLIX, and Canne's Emerging Filmmaker Showcase

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Awards:

First place in Cricket Magazine art contest (2011)

Artwork for Section, Danny Belgrad, on Soundcloud 

Featured in Spectacular Students Article in 2017 

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Honorable Mention and Silver Key in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards 2020

Gold Key, Silver Key, and Honorable Mention x3 in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards 2021

Gold Key, Honorable Mentions x3 in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards 2022

Scored a 5 on AP Drawing Portfolio (2021)

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Newspapers and Magazines:

Designer for Yale Herald (present)

Contributing Illustrator for Yale Daily News (present)

Staff member of the Yale Record (present)

Layout Assistant and member of the art department for Harvard-Westlake's Chronicle (2019-2020), Junior Art Director for Harvard-Westlake's Chronicle (2020-2021), Art Director for Harvard-Westlake's Chronicle (2021-2022

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Art Director for Fresh Ink for Teens (2020-2022)

 

 

 

 

Art Director for Panorama, Harvard-Westlake's features/opinion magazine (2021-2022)

Junior Editor for Harvard-Westlake's Stone-Cutters literary and visual arts magazine (2019-2021)

Visual Arts Head for Harvard-Westlake's Stone-Cutters (2021-2022)

Editor of Harvard-Westlake's The Tenth Muse literary arts magazine in 2018-19

Seen in House and Garden Magazine in the June and May 2020 issues

Artwork published on jGirls Magazine

Member of the Los Angeles Art Association and active member in a critique group

2021 Artist Talk and Exhibition, "A Time of Questioning" curated by Shana Nuys Dambrot  

Member of the Digital Art Committee at Cedars-Sinai Hospital 

Art showcased in the high school exhibition at California State University, Northridge Art Gallery