Jennifer is attracted to Super-Realism, which was her Concentration. Since she wants her art to look as real as possible, the plethora of details, especially the spokes and the reflective parts, made the bicycle a particularly challenging subject to translate to paper. In contrast, she found the clarity of the bicycle’s shadow on the ground easy to capture.

Jennifer’s AP art class at Ridgewood High School in New Port Richey, Florida, usually has three or four students. Dr. Deborah Lepley, the AP Studio Art teacher, shares her office with the AP students, an arrangement Jennifer liked considerably. Each student is given a desk and wall space for pinning up his or her art in Dr. Lepley’s office. This allows Dr. Lepley to give guidance to her AP students while she is simultaneously teaching a larger, beginning art class in the next room. Jennifer’s last year as an AP Studio Art student was difficult because it had to be spent in a portable classroom while the art studio was being renovated.

Jennifer is majoring in Fine Arts and experimenting with new media at the University of South Florida. During her fall semester, she took a sculpture class which gave her the opportunity to work with paper maché, depicted a girl holding an inside-out umbrella and being blown away by the wind: a metaphor for the way Jennifer feels as a freshman in a large university. Jennifer also plans to take ceramics and a drawing class and would eventually like to illustrate for books and magazines.