Kadance’s Artistic Odyssey — ICS Senior Arts Student Highlight

Senior Kadance Eagle has been attending Intermountain Christian School since her freshman year of high school. She has been interested in art for most of her life, going back to elementary school. Kadance enjoys using various mediums, but her favorites are acrylic painting and digital art. While creating using these mediums, she finds that mistakes are easier to fix. 

Kadance has taken every art class available to her since she started attending ICS. While in Mrs. Lee’s art room, Kadance has been challenged to do projects she wouldn’t consider on her own. The assignments have pushed her out of her comfort zone. She and a classmate worked together to create a cardboard animal head mount. She never would’ve taken on that challenge outside of Mrs. Lee’s prompting. Once completed, she took pride in her cardboard sheep!

Kadance’s favorite year of art was her junior year. All of the projects were her choice, and she was able to be creative and unrestrained. Her favorite project was the completion of her dragon sculpture, which used multiple mediums, including clay, fabric, and paint. The other project she was most proud of was a digital piece with a setting in Southern Utah and the inclusion of griffins. It was an effort to get the piece printed out and stretched onto canvas, but the final outcome was very satisfying!

The art department at ICS exists to encourage students wherever they are in their capacity and skill to express their God-given creativity. Kadance has goals of working in animation and hopes to attend the University of Utah, majoring in general arts and minoring in film studies with an emphasis in animation. Kadance credits Mrs. Lee with encouraging her through ups and downs in her pursuit of art. 

Many students who have gone through Mrs. Lee’s art program came out not only with more skill and understanding, but an appreciation of who God made them to be and how to give Him glory through art. The ICS community looks forward to seeing what’s next for Kadance!