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The Oracle
The student news site of The Archer School for Girls

The Oracle
The student news site of The Archer School for Girls

The Oracle
Photos taken on a point-and-shoot digital camera are displayed on a collage. In the past few years, there has been a resurgence in the use of point-and-shoot cameras among teenagers and young adults. “There is a very nostalgic and vintage feel to the images from these types of cameras, which a lot of people enjoy and find cute,” junior Rachel Chung said.

Say cheese: Point-and-shoot cameras make a comeback among teens

By Francie Wallack, Features Editor
February 6, 2024
Photo editing application Photoshop offers Generative Fill, its first generative AI that is able to add or remove elements to images at users' requests. As it becomes more popular, AI photo editing threatens photography's authenticity and trustworthiness.

Column: Click, crop, edit, AI?

By Allie Yang, Columnist
December 12, 2023
The yearbook staff and Head of Scholastic Journalism Kristin Taylor gather around a cake in celebration of completing the 2022-2023 edition of the Hestia’s Flame. There have been 27 volumes of the yearbook, each tasked with reporting the most important, newsworthy moments of the school year.

Hestia’s Flame staff publishes 27th edition, reflects on in-depth, yearlong creation process

By Allie Yang, Columnist
June 1, 2023
World Language Teacher Natalie Kang rock climbs up a large boulder on a sunny day. This is one of Kang’s favorite hobbies and she said it has helped her gain a higher tolerance for adversity.

Rocks, nature-walks, photography: Faculty members share their favorite hobbies

By Emily Paschall, News Editor
May 19, 2023
Senior Lucy Lassman writes words such as "voice" and "echo" on her own portrait to capture her Archer experience. Starting in February, seniors Sophie Altemus, Olivia Torrington and Mia Makower began working on completing every senior class member's portraits.

Parting portraits: Seniors work on portraits of graduating class

By Cadence Callahan, Voices Editor
April 18, 2023
“Earth Guitar” depicts Woolenberg’s favorite guitar in her home that has butterflies on it. Woolenberg's photograph demonstrates her theme of “sandwiching negatives," and it won an Honorable Mention.

The Art-cher School for Girls: students submit to Scholastic Art Awards, explore creative processes

By Melinda Wang, Photo Editor
March 4, 2023
Junior Jordanna Boxer Wachler runs an organization that introduces senior citizens to art therapy and creates connection. Her passion for photography and service inspired her service project. "It's honestly incredible what we've done with a lot of the seniors," Boxer Wachler said. "You can just see their cognitive function has improved drastically, you know. Though we can't measure that, there are several studies about art therapy and the impacts of that."

Art for the ages: Jordanna Boxer-Wachler promotes creativity, connection with senior citizens through service

By Taviana Memoli, Staff Reporter
February 6, 2023
Students observe artwork on display at the first Visual Arts Fair held in the courtyard at lunch. Two rows of clotheslines were pinned with student art ranging from photography to felt artwork for the community to look at. Senior Bess Frierson created this event to showcase all of the artwork that fellow students have created, whether they are in an art elective or not.

‘Art unites people’: First ever Visual Arts Fair celebrated in courtyard

By Thea Leimone, Features Editor
January 24, 2022
Leah Abazari ('22) poses for Presley Sacavitch's ('22) projection project for her Advanced Photography class. So far, Sacavitch said she is most proud of the work she has produced for this project because of the various steps it included. ”The idea behind that project is that students were photographing images first and then they used a digital projector,” Alford said. “They can move the projector and angle it onto the body or the face of a person or an object, and then create photographs from that projection.”

Seniors begin photography classes with ‘experimental,’ ‘classic’ projects

By Audrey Chang, Editor-in-Chief
December 14, 2021
One of this year's promotional memes created by the "Pillars of Salt" staff, encouraging upper school students to submit their writing, art or photography to the magazine. The submission deadline was extended a week later to Nov. 12.

‘Pillars of Salt’ literary magazine extends submission deadline to November 12

By Vaughan Anoa’i, Editor in Chief
November 7, 2021
The annual Senior Art Exhibition is a culmination of a year’s worth of work, which gives senior artists a chance to share their work with the entirety of the Archer community. This year, each senior art student created a website to display their efforts as well as the chance to display a single piece in the Eastern Star Gallery amongst their peers.

Senior art exhibitions celebrate and recognize the work of the graduating class

By London Sinclair, Senior Reporter
May 25, 2021
Marley Mills photographed her sister, Archer alumni Siena Mills for her Advanced Photography class. "The project was all about using text," Mills said. "So I looked up a bunch of texts, and this excerpt came up and I really liked it."

Premiere virtual arts exhibit displays ‘powerful work’ of photography students

By Andrea Ramirez, Staff Reporter
January 19, 2021
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