Gristle Butter #19
Our first 2026 edition of Gristle Butter is ready for your enjoyment!
Click here to see the contributions to Issue #19 by Tsula, Rosie, Collette, Charlotte, Derek, Jupiter, Louis, Zoe, Olchar, Ru, and Marlee!
Arts & Electives
Italian Lunch
As part of the Community Lunch class, Meg, Miles, Rachel, and Brandon cooked up an amazing Italian lunch with guest chef and CHS board member, Cassie Hunt!
The banquet featured noodles from scratch topped with homemade gravy and meatballs, with pizzelles for dessert!
Bon appétit!
First Lunch!
First the first week of the semester the CHS Community Lunch class cooked roasted veggie and mozzarella sandwiches on ciabatta, with an egg salad on the side. Miles was the lead chef for the meal, with Brandon, Rachel, and Jupiter serving as a guest cooks.
Ceramics Class
Students spent a semester learning ceramics techniques by the skilled instructors at Motel Studios. They learned to throw on the wheel, decorate, glaze, and craft their own artwork from clay slabs.
Multi-Hour Full Body Drawings
Our students have been working hard drawing one of the most challenging and rewarding subjects in art — the human form. These multi-hour full body drawings showcase their dedication, observation, and growing understanding of anatomy, proportion, and expression. We’re so proud of their progress, focus and creativity.
???? Mediums: Charcoal, graphite, ink
Live Model Drawing
Our Figure Drawing class has been hard at work. The unique problems of drawing people from life can help improve awareness of our own bodies, as well as apply in our work in other fields – medicine, sports, dance, comics and more.
Revolution Me Festival in NYC
Jupiter and Ivor traveled to New York City for the Revolution Me Film Festival which took place in the Kumble Theatre at Long Island University in Brooklyn. They had the opportunity to network with American Film Institue (AFI) graduates and members of Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA). Jupiter took home the award for Best Director for a High School Short!
They also enjoyed exploring the southern half of Manhattan in the Houston, Greenwich Village, and Washington Square neighborhoods. While in Times Square, they picked up some of the half off criterion deals at the Barnes and Noble.
Another highlight of the trip was attending the premier of a new Norwegian film called “Sentimental Value” before it even hit most art house theaters across the US.
2025 VTA Conference
Last month Sarah and Les traveled to Norfolk to attend the Virginia Theatre Association conference.
Sarah shares:
I loved the trip, it was a once in a lifetime experience. Being able to talk to all those colleges and see other schools productions felt like a dream. I wouldn’t have traded this for the world!
Gristle Butter #18
It’s here!! The first Gristle Butter issue of the school year. Clocking in at Issue #18, this zine is contains poetry (in multiple languages), art, and for the first time ever, a contest!
Figure Drawing Class
Although we each possess one, the human form can be one of the most daunting subjects to render in two dimensions. Yet, humans have been inspired to reproduce images of themselves since well before the dawn of recorded history. Here’s an inside peek at our Figure Drawing class hard at work in our new art studio.
