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
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
https://fashionista.com/2018/02/marvel-black-panther-movie-costumes-hair-makeup
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 [email protected]. 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.
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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 [email protected]. 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 [email protected] 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 [email protected] 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 [email protected]. 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?
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