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This past spring, Miami Palmetto High School rising senior Sophia Pichirilo, won the Outstanding Junior Award for Art. The award is given to the junior class art student of the year. This school year Pichirilo will take the Advanced Placement Art Drawing class.
She enjoys using graphite pencils to draw and she also likes to paint portraits. She does a lot of portraits with graphite.
While she loves art, she’s interested in advertising or marketing as a major in college with art as a minor.
“I like putting different ideas into one concept,” she says. “As a very creative person, that matches me where I am.”
She attended a magnet art program in middle school and in elementary school, she was The Art Kid.
“I have drawings from when I was four in my dresser,” she says. “Just stick figures, but it’s cool to see how far I’ve come artistically.”
For community service, Pichirilo volunteered at ZooMiami as a guide for the runners participating in one of the many walks hosted by the zoo.
Her sophomore year, she volunteered for the American Sign Language Club. It was the first year doing a show.
“I was part of the backstage crew,” she says. “I was able to handle the lighting and work with costumes. The students sign songs. They would be in character in costumes.”
She also worked on the production of Wicked.
“I got to paint Elphaba,” she says. “She was entirely green!”
She’s still learning sign language.
“I took that club freshman year,” she says. “I decided to take the class the next year. It’s very visual. I’m a creative person happy to be able to learn a language that is very visual.”
She’s also worked at the summer camp at the Dave and Mary Alper Jewish Community Center as an art specialist.
“I got to teach art projects and core values,” she says.
This past school year she worked on a mural at Perrine Elementary with other Palmetto students.
“We are painting a panther and incorporating the school panther,” she says.
At Palmetto, she’s the treasurer of the National Art Honor Society and president of the Fashion Club.
“We have monthly meetings where we teach our members about important things in fashion,” she says. “How to be sustainable. Trends. We did a fashion display with Future Educators of America and DECA, the business club of our school.”
The show featured clothing for those with careers in tech, the medical field, teaching, and business.
“For tech we had them wear something simple. Gamers wear simple stuff. For business, we had them wear a suit and hold up their merchandise to help promote their club. We had a nurse come in, and we had her run the walkway with our medical outfit.”
This summer, Pichirilo participated in a pre-college course at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City.
“It’s one of my dream schools,” she says. “The course I’m specifically taking is International Fashion Business.”
At some point this summer, she hoped to start selling commission art or some of her clothing to make money for the upcoming school year.
“It will be an experience to sell my art,” she says. “It would help me out. It’s a whole different aspect of learning how to sell. Especially since my major is specific to that.”
Her college application list includes FIT, Parson’s School of Design, New York University, Florida International University, Florida State University, the University of Miami, the University of Central Florida, the University of South Florida and the University of North Florida.
Linda Rodriguez Bernfeld
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