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The Olympic Games may be over, but art students in Hawai‘i are still winning gold and silver at the Hawai‘i Region- al Scholastic Art Awards 2022 at the Hawai‘i State Art Museum.
excitedly explains. Rippard constantly helps her students be- come college and career ready and is not afraid to be vocal about what she
BY MARYANNE LONG AND LILLIANA MORALEZ
Castle’s Cole Mizuno ‘Snaps Up’ Some Gold Medals
For nearly 60 years of this prestigious national com- petition, Hawai‘i art stu- dents have joined the ranks of some impressive win- ners, such as Andy Warhol (art) and Robert Redford (writing). Former James B. Castle High School student Dawn Yoshimura won on the national level in the late 1980s and that New York ex- perience set her on the path to success as a conceptual designer for the Volvo cor- poration.
loves.
The Scholastic Arts ex-
hibit is open at HISAM on Hotel Street in Hono- lulu until March 12, from
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Admis-
(Left) Award-winning Castle High School student Cole Mizuno, age 17, and his art educator Casilda Rippard PHOTO COURTESY MARYANNE LONG (Right) Cole (second from left) with his “super stoked” family: mother Colette Mizuno, grandmother Judy Kaneshiro, and father Jeff Mizuno. (Inset) Peace of Mind, a photograph by Cole. PHOTOS COURTESY ROBERT MACE
sion is free.
Mahalo to Lilliana Mo-
Now decades later, Castle High is still winning the gold, thanks to art educator Casil- da Rippard, who has been encouraging and supporting her students for years to par- ticipate in this very worth- while competition. This year’s outstanding winner is Cole Mizuno, a 12th-grade culinary arts and medical pathways student at Castle. He won three Gold Keys, one Silver Key, a Windward
“That’s where I got my drive. That’s what I love about Scholastic, you can see people and say, ‘They’re 17; I can do that, too!’” she
MaryAnne Long is an art- ist, art instructor, art collec- tor and curator. Reach her at malong@hawaii.rr.com or longlostart.weebly.com.
Artist Guild award, the Long on Art award and a SHA- KA team scholarship, all for compelling photographs that displayed quite a mastery of photography skills. Congrat- ulations, Cole.
out by looking at other local photographers on Instagram and got inspired; first by doing small video clips and that’s what got him hooked. Thanks to the use of Go-Pros and hand-me-down cameras from his older brother Jef- frey, he eventually knew that he wanted to pursue photog- raphy and make a career of it.
“They are super stoked for me. They were the first people I told when I got the call from Ms. Rippard. They’ve always supported me through everything,” he says.
rounded by the Houston livestock shows and rodeo, having been born and raised in Texas.
ralez, a theater arts pathway student at Castle High, for collaborating with me on this article.
When asked why he had chosen the particular shots for this competition, Mizuno explains, “They were inter- esting and different. I want to be out of the box and dif- ferent from everybody else.”
In looking at his photo- graphs, one could say that these are not just pictures, they are stories. Mizuno’s family members were there every step of the way.
Rippard has been an art teacher at Castle High since 2013. She’s ecstatic that Cole won awards for the Scholastic Art competition.
Mizuno grew up in Kah- alu‘u around the ocean with his family. He loves surfing, bodyboarding, the beach and photography. He started
“I love (art), it gives me a chance for students to see art in every discipline,” she shares.
Rippard grew up sur-
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