Tape Murals
Jahzelle Ford and Leanna Bobadilla
October 16, 2019
The last semester of the 2018-2019 school year was the first time Carbajal had assigned the tape murals, large pieces of art composed completely of tape, and will once again be assigning them. Her intermediate drawing students and this time Mrs. Puentes advanced art design students work to beauti...
Murals
Dennise Reynoso, Writer
May 25, 2018
For several days in the last three weeks of April, students from Intermediate/Advanced Art have participated in the creation of their murals. The artwork was displayed outside the J-Building, in front of the halls for passing students to view the large scale illustrations. Each year t...
Unknown Wilting by Andres Flores
Nicole Estrada, Writer
May 25, 2018
While being in Downey High School’s production of Grease, Andres Flores had to leave before the last show on Friday, May 11 to see whether or not his painting made it to top 5 in the Lucille Roybal-Allard Student Art Show. Flores ended up winning second place for his work “Unknown Wiliting,” cr...
Downey’s Post-it Contest Recreation
Vanessa Carrillo, Co-Business Manager
April 9, 2018
'For the past two years students from Ms. Berumen, Mrs. Carbajal, Ms. Cordova, Mrs. Joest, Ms. Nikaj and Mrs. Puente have all been collaborating with each other every year in a post-it art show. Downey Highs’ J building has been covered with over 1,432 post-it drawings, all being left out for display ...
Stay Gallery Hosts Pop-Up Show with Female Entrepreneurs
Dennise Reynoso, Writer
April 9, 2018
The Stay Gallery, Downey’s own local art gallery, recently hosted a pop-up shop on March 31, which was comprised of products made and sold by local female entrepreneurs. A variety of retailers were present, selling beauty, skin care and fashion merchandise. Erika Gonzalez, the owner of the boutique Gy...
Shia LaBeouf Art Stunt
Fatima Rosas, Staff Writer
March 8, 2016
29-year-old actor, director, and performing artist, Shia LaBeouf collaborates with artist Nastja Sade Rönkkö, on Feb. 19 from 9A.M, to 9A.M. on Feb. 20. Their latest art project #ELEVATE, which consisted of standing in an elevator at Oxford University for 24 hours. Small groups were invited and participate,...