AMBUSH! Arts & Culture
“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”
― Émile Zola
― Émile Zola
Ambush! ART 2018Documentary: Behind Closet Doorsby Sage Addington '18 WEEKLY POLL
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Interview with Ernie Tsosieby Sage Addington '18 Wednesday students were on assembly schedule and there was chit chat of a drug seminar. Ernie Tsosie, a Navajo comedian famous for James & Ernie, gave a presentation in the Kenneth Holloway Performing Arts Auditorium on April 4th. The presentation opened with jokes and was ultimately about substance abuse from alcohol and cigarettes to energy drinks. As a student I realized students quieted down a lot faster than we normally do for assemblies, and we tried our best to quietly hang on to the end when the final bell was about to ring. I was able to speak with Ernie Tsosie an hour after school, after he had finished taking selfies and writing autographs for nearly 50 kids.
When I was finally able to speak to Tsosie, we sat in the orchestra pit of the auditorium. In his presentation he said he is a Gallup High alumni so my first question was asking what year he graduated from Gallup High. I was told Ernie is from the class of 1985. I inquired on whether or not he chose to come to GHS to present, but the question was misunderstood; it was understood as whether or not he chose to attend as a student. “I was sent by my mom,” Tsosie said. He called himself “troubled teen” living in Window Rock and said his mom wanted to get him out of a bad environment, so she sent him to Gallup. As far as whether or not Ernie chose to present at Gallup high, the answer is sorta. I was told he chose Gallup High because he is from the area, but ultimately Gallup High was part of a school tour scheduled by the Oso Vista Ranch Project. According to the Osa Vista Ranch Project website, the goal of the non-profit organization is to provide commercial tobacco prevention, youth leadership, and entrepreneurship programs for New Mexican Native American communities. Five other schools including Gallup High were booked along with 20 other dates. Tsosie also presented at Rehoboth Christian School in early April. When asked if he thought comedy was an efficient tool for discussing serious topics and educating youth, Tsosie commented, “Yes. It’s not… It’s not the best way, but it’s a good way. It’s a good ice breaker, it gets people comfortable.” Tsosie referenced making students laugh at the beginning of his presentation before getting a little more serious later on. My final question asked Tsosie if he believed it’s important to talk to children about issues such as substance abuse and he said, “Yes, I’m a big believer.” He told me he has a 12 year old and a 6 year old, and all you can do is start young and make them aware so that, “Hopefully they’ll have a better chance of avoiding it” on their own. https://osovistaranchproject.org/ Zeisty Blood Orange Coco-Cola??by Rocco Addington '20
WEEKLY POLLLast Week's Poll Results!Last week we asked Ambush! Poll takers if they are familiar with Salvador Dali and 100% said yes.
Salvador Dali Put to Rest Againby Sage Addington '18
On March 15, 2018, the Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation said in a short statement, “Last night, the mortal remains of Salvador Dali have been reburied and lie beneath the dome of the Figueres Theatre-Museum. The procedure was the same as it was last July and was once again designed to preserve the master’s privacy and memory.” https://news.artnet.com/art-world/salvador-dali-reburied-1246712-1246712 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/06/woman-salvador-dali-exhumation-not-his-daughter-dna-paternity-test WEEKLY POLLLast Week's Poll Results!Last week we asked Ambush! Readers if they are emo and 50% said "Yesh! x3" and 50% said they used to be.
Op-Ed: My First Poetry Slamby Sage Addington '18
Well, first I had to put on my big boy pants and get the courage to walk downtown. I found out about the event because I am on the gallupARTS mailing list. As it turns out, there is a poetry slam every first Friday of the month at ART123 from 6:30 - 8:30 PM. The monthly poetry slams aren’t to be confused with Gallup’s Annual Poetry Slam each April. Here is the event structure and guidelines from the gallupARTS website: Open-Mic1. Advanced registration is not required, but is encouraged. Sign-ups will be handled on a first-come-first-served basis. Sign up via e-mail to melamorie@gmail.com or starting at 6:20pm the night of the event. 2. Poets may share either original or credited work for the Open Mic. Slam Competition1. Advanced registration is required for the Slam Competition, either via e-mail to melamorie@gmail.com or in-person by 7:15pm the night of the event. 2. Performers must present original work for the Competition. 3. Judges will be selected onsite. Since this was my first time, I was not able to tell the difference between my experience and a typical experience at a Gallup Poetry Slam, but according to the slam director, this slam was not a “real one” for many reasons. For starters, the slam did not start at 6:30, it started at 6:50. Most slams end around 8:30 because there is a guest reader, but this month there was none so the slam ended at 7:30. There was no slam competition at this event. This month also included a theme: women. This month’s slam celebrated Women’s History Month with poems by women, about women, for women. Luckily for me, I am a woman. I decided to come to this poetry slam a bit last minute, so all I had were some cheesy love poems. Turns out, you don’t have to read poetry of your own, if you don’t have any. You can share a poem, as long as you give credit to writer. I found this fact out while “Sign-ups” happened; sign-ups are done by writing your name on a clipboard that gets passed around. I was at a corner seat and was never passed the clipboard, but when the sign-up sheet made it back to the front, the director informed the audience that if they didn’t sign up, they’re still allowed to read a poem after the list is completed. The director broke the ice and opened with a poem she had wanted to share, and a poem she had written herself. The first person other than the director to read was a girl I unfortunately can’t remember the name of. She was an indigenous woman and confessed to the audience that she, “[Hadn’t] done this since high school.” I was able to talk to her after the poetry slam, and we shared some words. She told me her poem was inspired by her and her friends time at Standing Rock, protesting against the Dakota Access Pipeline. She said, “There’s just so much to fight for.” In her eyes we spoke a silent language, one that understood perfectly. She told me of a time where she was homeless and struggling, advising me to, “Just keep writing, [because] that’s all you can really do. This world is so… Everything is so… [Bad]. And all you can do is write, and let it out. You can’t keep everything bottled up.” Poem Inspired by Standing Rock"The greed, money, and power, they are selling the soul of the Earth. Father Sky and Mother Earth, crying out to stop the pain. Destroying lands, building oil companies. Chemtrails fly above. Air polluted, toxic waste. My ancestors fought for the distance land. They were terrorized for their rights; mocked, jailed, terminated against. Our heritage pushed away. I’m doing history, fighting for our existence. We’re fighting for water. My brothers and sisters stand and resist, Praying to four corners, killing the black snake. Mother Earth arise and call for peace. We know water is life. Who are you to judge me? I am indigenous. The hardest thing is seeing those frozen to death, homeless, drinking; trying to testify the struggle I face today. My soul is fighting inside, my ancestors are crying inside. Fighting, blood, money, destroying our tribal lands. We stand here in peace saying, “We are still here!” My relatives found murdered with no justice. Left alone, every sister is murdered, or disappeared. All those missing and murdered, with no justice to proclaim; with a stroke of a pen, takes away who we are. First nations, we stand up, reviving the Earth. Stand with one nation, stand with justice that defines you. I’m just being real, from eyes you see my struggles. We stand unarmed, remain in peace, because I say enough is enough. We are still here." About two poems in an obvious walker from outside came in to listen. The poetry slam is free so the host of the slam provided him with a chair and for a while everything was fine, until people started to act rude. I personally appreciated the walker’s vibe and the fact that although he was a little intoxicated he was appreciating poetry! After each poem, not during, he would say something along the lines of, “That’s beautiful, man,” and “You’re an amazing writer.” Half the people around him would hush him and a man playing a keyboard would repeatedly say in clipped tone, “You need to be quiet.” Eventually, at the very end of the poetry slam, this lead to an argument in which the walker said, “I’m an American too, man. I have free speech.” The host asked that he’d be quiet if he didn’t have anything to say by women, for women, or about women. The man repeatedly said, “I’m sorry,” was quiet for the rest of the time, and went so far as to hold the door for every single person to leave the event. I enjoyed the experience, but not how most of the crowd treated the poetry-loving walker. It was sort of ironic how there were a few white individuals who introduced themselves in Navajo, talked about the various Native schools they had once taught at, and proceeded to be rude to the Native man that wandered into the Poetry Slam. Despite that I would definitely go again, I had a good time. http://www.galluparts.org/gallup-poetry-slam/?utm_source=Newsletter+List&utm_campaign=88af668513-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_27&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_489cca22ad-88af668513-186055013 What is the Hot Topic Foundation?by Sage Addington '18
“Everyone at the store explains it a little differently, but it’s actually really cool,” Pierce said, “The Hot Topic Foundation is a non-profit and the way it works is by donating your leftover change after a purchase. They use the money to bring music and art stuff to underprivileged children. They work four other non-profits I think.” She joked that during work there’s always the one angry lady at check out who glares and asks, “What’s that?” According to the Hot Topic website, the Hot Topic Foundation teams up with non-profit organizations to help inspire and encourage young people to express their individuality through fields like music and art. The foundation is over a decade old as it was founded in 2004 at the suggestion of some Hot Topic store associates. Over the past fourteen years, the Hot Topic Foundation has given nearly $9 million in grants to the non-profit teams they work with. The Hot Topic Foundation currently works with three organizations that help young people express their individuality through the arts. The three organizations include the GRAMMY Foundation, Little Kids Rock, and Notes for Notes. These foundations are actually really awesome. Little Kids Rock partners with school districts in training public school teachers innovative curriculum and donating all the instruments and resources they need to have amazing music programs. The GRAMMY Foundation’s mission is to develop an appreciation and advancement of recorded music in American culture by organizing programs and activities that engage the general public, cultural community, and music industry. Notes for Notes designs, provides, and staffs after-school program studios inside Boys & Girls Clubs where youth can create and record music all for free. The main goal of Notes for Notes is to educate kids on the behind the scenes of music production. https://www.hottopic.com/product/hot-topic-foundation-donation/991001-000.html https://www.calfund.org/hot-topic-foundation/ https://www.littlekidsrock.org/ https://www.grammy.com/grammy-foundation http://notesfornotes.org/ Movie Review: Emo The Musicalby Sage Addington '18  http://www.mcleodcasting.com/emo-the-musical/ This movie gave me emo P!TSD (Yes, that was a Panic! At The Disco joke). When I first read the title EMO The Musical while scrolling through Netflix, I literally gasped and yelled, “What is this?!” EMO The Musical is a 2016 production and has a Romeo and Juliet setup as an emo boy falls in love with a Christian girl. The main conflict is the main character, Ethan, and the love interest, Trinity, are in rival bands wanting to compete in a battle of the bands type of event. Ethan wants to prove himself to his friends and Trinity wants to maintain her faith. This setup made me excited to see the film because I was once Christian, once an emo kid, and once an emo Christian kid. The movie is about an hour and a half long at 94 minutes and is also a satire of high school based musicals. This movie is truly for emo kids and the formerly emo, but even if you never put on coon eyeliner or fried your hair straightening it, you can still have a good laugh. Baseline stereotype jokes about My Chemical Romance, not liking labels, and skinny jeans cracked me up because every emo has been a stereotype at one point. The movie went as far as including small details only true emo kids could appreciate like string chokers. It was hard for me not to laugh at the portrayal of how uncomfortable the Christian kids were around the emo ones; it was painfully and hysterically accurate on more than one occasion.
This is a musical but it’s not like any other because it’s hilarious while still making catchy songs. It’s hard to find a balance where you can be funny but still produce musical style music. I found myself enjoying the songs, even the flat ones, because they sounded like a legitimate emo band I would have listened to when I was younger. However, I will warn you, if you are someone who doesn’t like an occasional messed up suicide joke, some aspects of this film will annoy you. This film not only pokes fun at emo kids, but also pokes fun at some negative aspects of Christianity, so If you don’t like jokes about religion, this film may not be for you. As an emo phase survivor, I have to say this film may be funnier to you if you can actually relate to it. Ambush! Art: Art and Literary MagazineAmbush! Is publishing their yearly art and literature magazine in April, and we want your submissions! Last year only four students made submissions and one teacher. The magazine still came out great, but this year we are hoping to include more Gallup High artists than in 2017. To allow total creative freedom, there is no limit to what you can submit (as long as it can be printed). Feel free to submit your drawings, paintings, photographs, poems, and short stories. There is also no limit to how much content you can submit, so go crazy. If you have art, we want to see it! Not only do we want your works, we want to know a little more about you. Who is the artist behind the art? It is completely optional, but if you want, you can choose to fill out a short questionnaire to go in your biography beside your artwork. The questionnaire will be left at the very bottom. If you want to submit any art or writing, you can do so in two ways. You can either physically drop off a copy of your work to Ms. Sweetwyne in room A202 or submit photos and documents to ambushnews@gmail.com. If you choose to submit any photos digitally, please send them in the highest resolution you can. If you choose to submit photographs of your work, please try to take the photos in the best lighting you can. If you have any questions regarding submissions or anything else, feel free to contact the newspaper. QuestionnaireQuestion: What is your name? Answer: Question: What grade are you in? Answer: Question: Why do you like art?/Why are you an artist? Answer: Question: What is your favorite media to work in? Answer: Question: What is your favorite content to create? Answer: Question: How long have you been practicing art? Answer: Question: What do you want to accomplish as an artist? Answer: WEEKLY POLLLast Week's Poll Results!Last week we asked Ambush! Readers a strange question because there was no article to go with it. We asked readers if they've ever been hospitalized and 100% of poll takers said no.
Gallup High Drama Presents Alice in Wonderlandby Sage Addington '18 The Gallup High Drama Club is putting on a performance of Alice in Wonderland April 13th, 14th, and 15th in Kenneth Holloway Performing Arts Auditorium. On Thursday, April 13th and Friday the 14th the play will be held at 6:00 PM; on April 15th, the show will be at 3:00 PM. The play is a one act adaptation by T.C. Baker describing Alice's adventure in Wonderland and her journey to get out. This is the first drama club production to be directed under the new drama director Georgia Savage after the former director, Nona Edelson, left Gallup High in December. Although the cast list has already been announced, the drama club needs backstage hands to help with costumes, props, and sets! Alice - Tea Aragon Alice’s friend, Three - Raechelle Sandoval Alice’s mom, White knight, bailiff - Sydney Teran Caterpillar - Christian Santiago Cheshire Cat - Austyn Teran Dormouse, Ace - Elijah Jack Iris and Four - Lizbeth Sanchez King, Alice’s dad, lily - Lancey Shack Mad Hatter - Lucy Martinez March Hare - Madelyn Nielson Red Queen and Alice’s sister - Alora Garcia-Archunde Tweedledee - Rose Laughter Tweedledum - Santera Hernandez Two & Rose - Aja George White Rabbit, Alice’s sister - Shaiana Acevedo Contacting Demons and Ghosts?by Derek Curely '19 The Ouija board were made to be a game to contact ghosts, demons and many other types of supernatural beings. The game consists of a flat board with the alphabet, numbers 0 to 9, a “yes”, “no” and “goodbye” along with a teardrop device. The Ouija board is said to have an obsession with spiritualism. Spiritualism is the belief that the dead are able to communicate with the living. No one knows for sure where this board came from and why a toy company started producing them. Since 1992, historian Robert Murch has been trying to figure out the background of the Ouija board. He had said “no one really knew anything about its origins”. It had confused him and made him question many things. “For such an iconic thing that strikes both fear and wonder in American culture, how can no one know where it came from?” Murch said. The Kennard Novelty Company was the first company in the United States to manufacture Ouija boards Kennard left the company in 1891, and the Kennard Novelty Company became the Ouija Novelty Company. There are many ways to play the game but but there is one common one. Step one would be to designate one person to ask all the questions. The second step is to have all players gently place their index and middle fingers on the planchette and slowly move the planchette in circles to let the board warm up. Third you would the board questions. A fourth step is to concentrate and watch the device move around to make words. The last step after finished playing the game is to say goodbye. When playing the game, it is said to not yell and be polite when asking or speaking to the board. There have been many stories about people who don’t play the game right or those who don't say goodbye. There have been cases where the board talks people into doing what it wants. Another case is where the board allows a being from the supernatural world to possess a living body. There are a lot of dangers and risks when playing the game. Still, to this day, no one knows the exact origination of the Ouija board. https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.wikihow.com/Use-a-Ouija-Board%3famp=1#ampshare=https://www.wikihow.com/Use-a-Ouija-Board http://www.kennardnoveltycompany.com https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-strange-and-mysterious-history-of-the-ouija-board-5860627/ http://mentalfloss.com/article/12952/brief-history-ouija-board Ambush! Art: Art and Literary MagazineAmbush! Is publishing their yearly art and literature magazine in April, and we want your submissions! Last year only four students made submissions and one teacher. The magazine still came out great, but this year we are hoping to include more Gallup High artists than in 2017. To allow total creative freedom, there is no limit to what you can submit (as long as it can be printed). Feel free to submit your drawings, paintings, photographs, poems, and short stories. There is also no limit to how much content you can submit, so go crazy. If you have art, we want to see it! Not only do we want your works, we want to know a little more about you. Who is the artist behind the art? It is completely optional, but if you want, you can choose to fill out a short questionnaire to go in your biography beside your artwork. The questionnaire will be left at the very bottom. If you want to submit any art or writing, you can do so in two ways. You can either physically drop off a copy of your work to Ms. Sweetwyne in room A202 or submit photos and documents to ambushnews@gmail.com. If you choose to submit any photos digitally, please send them in the highest resolution you can. If you choose to submit photographs of your work, please try to take the photos in the best lighting you can. If you have any questions regarding submissions or anything else, feel free to contact the newspaper. QuestionnaireQuestion: What is your name? Answer: Question: What grade are you in? Answer: Question: Why do you like art?/Why are you an artist? Answer: Question: What is your favorite media to work in? Answer: Question: What is your favorite content to create? Answer: Question: How long have you been practicing art? Answer: Question: What do you want to accomplish as an artist? Answer: WEEKLY POLLLast Week's Poll Results!Last week we asked Ambush! Poll takers if they've seen Black Panther and 75% said yes! and 25% said they really want to.
Op-Ed: Culture and Costumes: Black Panther
by Sage Addington '18
The movie includes many famous faces like Angela Bassett and Michael B. Jordan, but the movie also includes a large handful of African born/raised actors. Danai Gurira is from Zimbabwe, Florence Kasumba is from Uganda, Daniel Kaluuya is from Uganda, Lupita Nyong’o was raised in Kenya, and John Kani is from South Africa.
As someone who isn’t black and only has a small knowledge of Africa, the entire time I watched the film I was wondering what cultural references were flying over my head. I could tell the costumes were intricately designed and some references such as lip plates and and neck rings were obvious. Yet, I wondered about other things I saw such as hats, scarves, blankets, body paint, and scarring throughout the entire film. After watching this film and doing some researched, I learned about many of the different African cultures represented in this film. Hardly does one get to learn about Indigenous African culture.
Blankets/ScarvesBasotho Blanket
Awotele
The awotele is like an undercoat. The second layer was made of silk and was pressed in pleats in the Issey Miyaki style. Part of the coat was also a lightweight black tunic with long sleeves and large cuffs; the cuffs stick out from beneath the second layer. Carter said that she also used small silver metals made by the Tuareg people of the Sahara desert. The metal pieces “highlighted their [the Tuareg’s] intricate design in their silversmithing.” Each piece of Tuareg jewelry has a special meaning and combining the different cultures made it so that not just one culture was represented.
Accent Layer
The accent layer featured a long front piece made out of hundreds of tiny beads. The neck piece was crafted out of a rope wrapped in leather and joined by magnets.
Sokoto
The final layer is simply a long pair of red trousers.
Colors
Headdresses
Lip Plates
Masks
Neck Rings
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Tribal Markings
Wakanda Language
Although Wakanda is a made up place, the language used in Black Panther is not. The language heard at several points throughout the movie is isiXhosa, one of South Africa's eleven official languages. isiXhosa is spoken by more than eight million South Africans, or 15% of the population.
Warriors
https://www.flickeringmyth.com/2018/01/new-stills-behind-scenes-images-marvels-black-panther/
https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/black-panther-cultural-references.1446325/
http://www.theglimpse.com/the-surma-and-mursi-tribes-lip-plates http://afritorial.com/tribe-the-mangbetu/ https://www.fowler.ucla.edu/product/x73-631-mgbedike-mask/ http://www.hamillgallery.com/IGBO/IgboSpiritMasks/IgboSpiritMasks.html http://www.krugerpark.co.za/africa_ndebele.html http://www.rebirth.co.za/igbo_tribal_art_history_and_culture.htm http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2561949/Ethiopian-Sudanese-tribes-intricate-raised-patterns-created-using-THORNS.html http://sc2218.wikifoundry.com/page/Mursi+and+the+Lip-Plate http://www.rebirth.co.za/hats/zulu_hats.htm http://www.thegeektwins.com/2018/02/top-10-african-tribes-featured-in-black.html http://www.onlytribal.com/the-himba-tribe-history-and-culture.asp https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/07/0728_040728_tvtabooscars_2.html https://softkenya.com/kenya/maasai-tribe/ https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/16/us/wakanda-black-panther.html https://fashionista.com/2018/02/marvel-black-panther-movie-costumes-hair-makeup https://www.zkhiphani.co.za/ndebele-choker-more-than-just-a-fashion-trend/ Op-Ed: #ArmMeWith School Supplies
by Sage Addington '18
Thousands of teachers and students joined the movement and made photos with suggestions that don’t involve arming teachers with firearms.
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Yes, schools should focus on security, but schools shouldn’t just be safe, they should feel safe. If I knew any one of my teachers could be in possession of a gun, I wouldn’t feel safe. School is stressful enough and making students feel safe, shouldn’t also make students feel like they are in prison. As a student, I believe we need to focus on mental health, family life, bullying, and making our schools an all around better environment for the students.
Don’t waste money on providing teachers with firearms, use that money to provide teachers with the resources they need to make school a better environment. Provide students books. Provide students school supplies. Provide students with more teachers so they’re in a less crowded environment and get more one on one attention. Provide students with counselors to help them with bullying and other rough times. Provide students with basic knowledge of mental health. Provide students with after school clubs and fun things to do outside of home. Providing teachers with firearms sounds like a dangerous step in the wrong direction. If a shooter was to be on campus and teacher was to use their firearm, a potential firefight could break out and put even more students in harm's way. If a shooter were to be on campus, the authorities would have trouble identifying the shooter with so many people in possession of guns. And what happens when a teacher one day fights with a student and someone ends up getting shot?
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School can’t protect students at home or shield them from the ugliness of the world, but what they can do is try and make the place where students spend a majority of their time, better. Besides, if schools cannot afford to make the school better, than how can they afford lots of guns? Teachers aren’t paid nearly enough to do their jobs and they sure aren’t paid enough to protect my life. Students shouldn’t have to worry about staying alive, they should be able to worry about their education. #ArmMeWith school supplies.
http://www.kob.com/albuquerque-news/threat-prompts-2-hour-delay-at-belen-high-school/4798947/ https://www.aol.com/article/news/2018/02/23/teachers-say-armmewith-classroom-resources-instead-of-guns/23369746/#slide=7254340#fullscreen https://www.facebook.com/NowThisPolitics/videos/1933360976695383/ Ambush! Art: Art and Literary Magazine
Ambush! Is publishing their yearly art and literature magazine in April, and we want your submissions! Last year only four students made submissions and one teacher. The magazine still came out great, but this year we are hoping to include more Gallup High artists than in 2017. To allow total creative freedom, there is no limit to what you can submit (as long as it can be printed). Feel free to submit your drawings, paintings, photographs, poems, and short stories. There is also no limit to how much content you can submit, so go crazy. If you have art, we want to see it!
Not only do we want your works, we want to know a little more about you. Who is the artist behind the art? It is completely optional, but if you want, you can choose to fill out a short questionnaire to go in your biography beside your artwork. The questionnaire will be left at the very bottom. If you want to submit any art or writing, you can do so in two ways. You can either physically drop off a copy of your work to Ms. Sweetwyne in room A202 or submit photos and documents to ambushnews@gmail.com. If you choose to submit any photos digitally, please send them in the highest resolution you can. If you choose to submit photographs of your work, please try to take the photos in the best lighting you can. If you have any questions regarding submissions or anything else, feel free to contact the newspaper. Questionnaire
Question: What is your name?
Answer: Question: What grade are you in? Answer: Question: Why do you like art?/Why are you an artist? Answer: Question: What is your favorite media to work in? Answer: Question: What is your favorite content to create? Answer: Question: How long have you been practicing art? Answer: Question: What do you want to accomplish as an artist? Answer: WEEKLY POLLLast Week's Poll Results!
Last week we asked Ambush! Poll takers if they liked Kylie Jenner's baby name Stormi and 50% said for my dog, and the other 50% said yes.
It's Stormi in North West Chicago
by Sage Addington '18
I'm sorry for keeping you in the dark through all the assumptions. I understand you're used to me bringing you along on all my journeys. My pregnancy was one I chose not to do in front of the world. I knew for myself I needed to prepare for this role of a lifetime in the most positive, stress free, and healthy way I knew how. There was no gotcha moment, no big reveal I had planned. I knew my baby would feel every stress and every emotion so I chose to do it this way for my little life and our happiness.
Pregnancy has been the most beautiful, empowering, and life changing experience I've had in my entire life and I'm actually going to miss it. I appreciate my friends and especially my family for helping me make this special moment as private as we could. My beautiful and healthy baby girl arrived February 1st and I just couldn't wait to share this blessing. I've never felt love and happiness like this I could burst! Thank you for understanding.
Khloe Kardashian, Kylie’s pregnant sister, made a post on Instagram saying:
Congratulations My Sweet Kylie! What a magical ride it has been! I'll miss you bumping along with me. Never in a million years did I think we would do this together but it's been that much more special because of it. God is so great!! He had his plan all along! I love you little mama love big mama Although Stormi is currently the newest child until Khloe gives birth, Kim also had an addition to her family. Chicago West was born on January 15, 2018. The thirty-seven year old actress has had two high-risk pregnancies in the past and was eventually forced to hire a surrogate mother. The baby girl was named as a tribute to Kanye West’s mother Donda who raised him in Chicago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhIEIO0vaBE&feature=youtu.be https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/4411458/kim-kardashian-kanye-west-baby-girl-name-chicago-surrogate-latest/ Movie Review: Black Panther
by Rocco Addington '20
The only problem I found was with the main character itself. I don’t have a problem with him so much as I had a problem with his action scenes. The main character has a suit of armor that is close to impenetrable, this makes all of the action scenes he is in seem a bit redundant. What’s the point of him dodging bullets, and sneaking around if literally nothing could hurt him? In no point in this movie did I feel suspense, everything just seemed a little predictable. Unlike other Marvel movies they did a great job in balancing out the humor. If you have watched any Marvel movie in the past two years you probably came into this thinking will be laughing the whole way through. The humor didn’t seemed forced, it just came naturally and the punchline never fell short. Black Panther is not really a jokey character so it was nice to see him stick to his roots.
Personally when I watched this movie I got a little bored through it, but after hearing similar and different stories I think I know why. It’s a cultural thing; as a Native American it was very easy for me to laugh at some of the music, references, and motive behind some characters. This movie goes over some cultural aspects of the black community, and from an outside perspective I think it had a different impact on me, opposed to someone who is in that in the culture. The times where this movie brought up culture really made me think, even if I didn’t understand fully I was intrigued. This movie makes you think adding on to what is an amazing movie. Although the action was predictable, this movie was great. Black Panther goes over so much no matter who you are you’ll find something to like about this movie. Even a Marvel hater like me found something to like about this movie. Black Panther will make you laugh, think, and have you wanting more by the end of it. This is a movie definitely everyone should see. VIOLENTine's Day
by Sage Addington '18
Whether you love it or hate it, you probably know Valentine’s Day celebrates love. It’s a day to remind those closest to you that care about them. Unfortunately, a trend of violence also follows this affectionate holiday.
On February 14th, around 278 A.D., St. Valentine, a Christian martyr, was beheaded for performing marriages in secret. The holy priest was executed by Emperor Claudius II. Under the rule of Claudius the Cruel, Rome made many bloody campaigns; all the emperor wanted to focus on was maintaining a strong army. Unfortunately, he was having a hard time recruiting soldiers for his unpopular campaigns. Claudius believed men were unwilling to join his army because of their strong attachment to their wives and families, leading him to outlaw all marriages in Rome. St. Valentine rebelled against Claudius and would marry young lovers in secret, but was eventually found out. Upon Valentine’s outing, he was condemned to be beaten to death with clubs and to have his head cut off. Valentine’s sentence was carried out on the fourteenth of February. Legend has it, St. Valentine left a farewell letter to the jailer’s daughter, whom he had become friends with, and signed it, “From Your Valentine.” After his death, Valentine was named a saint for his service. Besides Claudius the Cruel, Chicago’s most notorious gangster also left his bloody mark on February the 14th. In 1929 one of Al Capone’s longtime enemies George “Bugs” Moran lost seven members of his operation. At the garage the Irish gangster ran his bootleg operations out of, seven of his men were gunned down while standing lined up, facing the wall. The overkill was insane, some 70 rounds of ammunition being fired. When policemen arrived, one member of Moran’s gang, Frank Gusenberg, was still clinging to life. In the final minutes of Frank’s life, authorities pressed him to talk and reveal what happened, but he refused. Moran and others immediately blamed Capone’s gang for the massacre, but no one was ever brought to trial for murder. In this the year 2018, there was another Valentine’s Day massacre. On Wednesday, in Parkland Florida, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School was shot up. The suspect is nineteen year old, former student Nikolas Cruz.The shooting racked up a body count of seventeen with fourteen other injuries. Fourteen students died and so did three faculty members. The ages of the victims ranges from fourteen to forty nine. On Valentine’s Day Al Capone killed seven, Nikolas Cruz killed seventeen. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/15/us/florida-shooting.html https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/15/us/florida-shooting-victims-school/index.html http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/st-valentine-beheaded https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/police-respond-shooting-parkland-florida-high-school-n848101 Ambush! Art: Art and Literary Magazine
Ambush! Is publishing their yearly art and literature magazine in April, and we want your submissions! Last year only four students made submissions and one teacher. The magazine still came out great, but this year we are hoping to include more Gallup High artists than in 2017. To allow total creative freedom, there is no limit to what you can submit (as long as it can be printed). Feel free to submit your drawings, paintings, photographs, poems, and short stories. There is also no limit to how much content you can submit, so go crazy. If you have art, we want to see it!
Not only do we want your works, we want to know a little more about you. Who is the artist behind the art? It is completely optional, but if you want, you can choose to fill out a short questionnaire to go in your biography beside your artwork. The questionnaire will be left at the very bottom. If you want to submit any art or writing, you can do so in two ways. You can either physically drop off a copy of your work to Ms. Sweetwyne in room A202 or submit photos and documents to ambushnews@gmail.com. If you choose to submit any photos digitally, please send them in the highest resolution you can. If you choose to submit photographs of your work, please try to take the photos in the best lighting you can. If you have any questions regarding submissions or anything else, feel free to contact the newspaper. Questionnaire
Question: What is your name?
Answer: Question: What grade are you in? Answer: Question: Why do you like art?/Why are you an artist? Answer: Question: What is your favorite media to work in? Answer: Question: What is your favorite content to create? Answer: Question: How long have you been practicing art? Answer: Question: What do you want to accomplish as an artist? Answer: WEEKLY POLLLast Week's Poll Results!
Last week we asked Ambush! Readers if they've ever had an art class with Mrs. Thomas and 100% of poll takers said yes.
11 Years At Gallup Highby Sage Addington '18 It makes me happy to see people’s eyes light up when they start to reminisce. When I interviewed Mrs. Thomas about her time at Gallup High, her eyes were so bright. It is Mrs. Thomas’ last year teaching because she will be retiring after this year. She told me that she has been a teacher for twenty-five years in total. Mrs. Thomas began her career at as an art teacher at Gallup Cathedral, teaching there for three years. Gallup Cathedral had closed down and just reopened when she began her job there and is now Gallup Catholic School located at 515 Park Ave. Mrs. Thomas has been teaching at Gallup High for a total of eleven years, first arriving in 2007. Before she taught at Gallup High she taught at Gallup’s Junior High School which is now Miyamura High School. Mrs. Thomas said quietly with a big grin, “I like Gallup High better. I think we have great teachers and great students.” I asked her what her favorite Gallup High Memory was and she laughed out loud and asked sadly, “Is this a retirement interview?” I felt bad for having caught her off guard and apologized, but she laughed it off and smiled. “Wow… That’s a big question,” She leaned into her desk and cupped her face in her hands. “A lot of memories for eleven years?” I chortled. “No kidding!” She exclaimed and leaned back in her chair to think. She told me she loved watching the girls and boys basketball team play. In correspondence to that question, I asked Mrs.Thomas what she would miss about Gallup High. “My students.” “Even the ones in hoodies?” I asked jokingly. “Even the ones in hoodies,” she smiled, glancing around briefly to make sure no one was out of dress code. “I’m going to miss my classroom. My classroom and my students,” Mrs. Thomas added on. “I’m going to miss you classroom too,” I confessed. I’ve always been fond of the art room from the colorful paintings, to the seasonal decorations, to the cluttered cabinets, to paint stained sinks, clay stained tables, and the wooden letters glued to the wall beneath the chalkboard. I even love the skeletal bird Mrs. Thomas took out of a vent in my 5th hour class in 2015. “This question is kind of fun,” I began, “What won’t you miss about Gallup High?” Mrs. Thomas chuckled and the students in my 1st hour ceramics class tuned in while they worked. “What won’t I miss?” Mrs. Thomas repeated the question. “I don’t like… I don’t like the system of teacher evaluations and observation days. Sometimes administration doesn’t realize each class is taught differently depending on circumstance and you can’t generalize things.” “What do you plan to do after you retire?” “Probably work hard,” Mrs. Thomas joked, “No, don’t say that… Golfing, gardening… And just enjoying time with my grandchildren.” I love my art teacher and sometimes forget she has a life outside of her classroom. She has a family and she’s a grandma. I know it doesn’t impact me, because I will be graduated, but future classes won’t have the art teacher I had. My final question was, “Did you enjoy teaching at Gallup High School?” “Yes, of course. If I have to leave a final word, it’s that I’m proud of it, proud of the school. I’m proud of the students and the staff, and I’m proud to be a part of it.” New Drama Group on the Sceneby Sage Addington '18  gallupARTS newsletter The Gallup Repertory Theatre is a recently formed group in the Gallup arts scene. The Gallup Rep is introducing themselves to the community with their 2018 lineup including The Frybread Queen by Native playwright Carolyn Dunn, a Performing Arts Festival, and a summer children's theater production, and a presentation of Dr. Faustus in the fall. The group held a meet-and-greet on February 9th. The meet-and-greet featured a raffle and a silent auction. Gallup Rep is currently seeking Native American actresses to audition for their production of The Frybread Queen. Overview: Three generations of Indian women come together for the funeral of a beloved son. The collision of personalities forces them to confront long-simmering tensions that threaten to tear them apart. Available roles: There are for available roles for 4 women of any Native American background. The age range is approximately 16-20,30-45, and 55-75. Audition Dates: February 18 and 19 at 6pm at the Gallup Cultural Center. Those auditioning may prepare a 1-2 minute piece to perform, but it’s not mandatory, as we will also provide readings from the script. For any additional information, contact Gallup Repertory Theater at team@galluprep.org or 505-879-9835 (ask for Suzanne). Source: gallupARTS newsletter gallupArts Call to Native American ArtistsBackground: gallupARTS has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Challenge America grant to fund a Native American Guest Artist Program, involving a three-month paid residency and culminating month-long solo show. Overview: gallupARTS’ Native Artist-in-Residence program at ART123 Gallery in downtown Gallup will provide a Native artist from the greater Gallup region the opportunity to create original works of art responding to a relevant, community-based social justice issue/s (e.g., exposure deaths, environmental concerns, domestic violence, etc.). The residency will take place from May 1, 2018 through July 31, 2018 and involve open studio hours, artist-led youth workshops, artist talks and live demos. It will culminate in a solo show of the created work at ART123 Gallery during the month of August 2018. The selected artist will be offered a $4,200 honorarium, $1,000 materials stipend, $600 studio equipment budget and rent-free studio space for three months. Eligibility Requirements:
Download/print the Application by clicking here. Application deadline: Friday, March 16 at 5pm www.gallupARTS.org/Native-AIR Questions? Contact Rose at executivedirector@galluparts.org or call 505-488-2136.  Ambush! Art: Art and Literary MagazineAmbush! Is publishing their yearly art and literature magazine in April, and we want your submissions! Last year only four students made submissions and one teacher. The magazine still came out great, but this year we are hoping to include more Gallup High artists than in 2017. To allow total creative freedom, there is no limit to what you can submit (as long as it can be printed). Feel free to submit your drawings, paintings, photographs, poems, and short stories. There is also no limit to how much content you can submit, so go crazy. If you have art, we want to see it! Not only do we want your works, we want to know a little more about you. Who is the artist behind the art? It is completely optional, but if you want, you can choose to fill out a short questionnaire to go in your biography beside your artwork. The questionnaire will be left at the very bottom. If you want to submit any art or writing, you can do so in two ways. You can either physically drop off a copy of your work to Ms. Sweetwyne in room A202 or submit photos and documents to ambushnews@gmail.com. If you choose to submit any photos digitally, please send them in the highest resolution you can. If you choose to submit photographs of your work, please try to take the photos in the best lighting you can. If you have any questions regarding submissions or anything else, feel free to contact the newspaper. QuestionnaireQuestion: What is your name? Answer: Question: What grade are you in? Answer: Question: Why do you like art?/Why are you an artist? Answer: Question: What is your favorite media to work in? Answer: Question: What is your favorite content to create? Answer: Question: How long have you been practicing art? Answer: Question: What do you want to accomplish as an artist? Answer: WEEKLY POLLLast Week's Poll Results!Last week we asked students if they've ever eaten a Tide Pod and 50% of students said no and the other 50% said what?
Glee Star Dies From Suicideby Sage Addington '18
The actor was arrested three years ago after he showed his girlfriend child pornography on his computer; she reported him to the police. Salling’s career on Glee lasted six years and ended in 2015. On December 18th Salling pleaded guilty to a federal charge of possessing child pornography. Apparently, Salling had admitted to downloading 25,000 images and 600 videos of childpornography onto his computer. According to court documents, he had content depicting children as young as three years old being abused.In October 2017 Salling struck a plea deal in his case and was expected to face seven years in prison. Not only that, the actor would also have had to register as a sex offender, enter a treatment program, have no verbal/electronic contact with anyone under the age of 18, stay 100 feet away from places where there are children (schools, parks, public pools, playgrounds, etc), and pay $50,000 in restitution to each victim. In the final days leading up to his suicide, Mark’s lawyer had said he was “focused on accepting responsibility.” Mark Salling is the second cast member of Glee to have died. In 2013 Cory Monteith, Finn Hudson, died from a lethal mixture of heroin and alcohol. The star was 31 years old when he had accidentally overdosed on heroin. Mark Salling is also not the only Glee member to be charged with a crime, his ex-girlfriend Naya Rivera was charged with misdemeanor domestic battery in November 2017 for assaulting her husband. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/glee-star-mark-salling-dead-apparent-suicide-2-183521198.html http://www.tmz.com/2018/01/30/mark-salling-dead-suicide-dies/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2018/01/30/reports-glee-actor-mark-salling-who-pleaded-guilty-child-porn-found-dead/1079288001/ http://people.com/tv/mark-salling-dead-apparent-suicide-everything-we-know-child-porn-case/ https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/mark-salling-dead-glee-costars-celebs-react/ http://people.com/tv/inside-mark-salling-glee-days/ https://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-mark-salling/glee-actor-mark-salling-35-dies-before-child-pornography-sentencing-idUSKBN1FJ2QO https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/26/entertainment/naya-rivera-arrested/index.html Ambush! Art: Art and Literary Magazine Ambush! Is publishing their yearly art and literature magazine in April, and we want your submissions! Last year only four students made submissions and one teacher. The magazine still came out great, but this year we are hoping to include more Gallup High artists than in 2017. To allow total creative freedom, there is no limit to what you can submit (as long as it can be printed). Feel free to submit your drawings, paintings, photographs, poems, and short stories. There is also no limit to how much content you can submit, so go crazy. If you have art, we want to see it! Not only do we want your works, we want to know a little more about you. Who is the artist behind the art? It is completely optional, but if you want, you can choose to fill out a short questionnaire to go in your biography beside your artwork. The questionnaire will be left at the very bottom. If you want to submit any art or writing, you can do so in two ways. You can either physically drop off a copy of your work to Ms. Sweetwyne in room A202 or submit photos and documents to ambushnews@gmail.com. If you choose to submit any photos digitally, please send them in the highest resolution you can. If you choose to submit photographs of your work, please try to take the photos in the best lighting you can. If you have any questions regarding submissions or anything else, feel free to contact the newspaper. QuestionnaireQuestion: What is your name? Answer: Question: What grade are you in? Answer: Question: Why do you like art?/Why are you an artist? Answer: Question: What is your favorite media to work in? Answer: Question: What is your favorite content to create? Answer: Question: How long have you been practicing art? Answer: Question: What do you want to accomplish as an artist? Answer: WEEKLY POLLLast Week's Poll Results!Last week we asked Ambush! Poll takers if they thought Kim Kardashian was a clone and 50% of poll takers said yes while the other 50% said they didn't care.
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