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Patch Whiz Kid: Linnea Kilpi

Whiz Kids is a new feature that highlights the accomplishments of local kids. This week we honor Linnea Kilpi, a budding artist at Rye High School.

Each week, Rye Patch will seek suggestions from readers for individual kids, youth groups, teens, and even sports teams that wow us with their accomplishments. We want to hear about these amazing children and teens and select one each week as the Patch Whiz Kid. Submit your nomination in our comment box below or e-mail the information to satta@patch.com.

Here's our story on this week's Whiz Kid:

Linnea Kilpi, Rye, 17

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Junior at Rye High School 

Whiz Kid’s Accomplishment: Linnea is a skilled artist who has created one of the most recognizable logos in Rye. 

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Keys to Awesomeness: Creative and talented are just two of the words that describe Rye High School junior Linnea Kilpi. 

She’s an example of the talent that has been cultivated through the RHS Art Department’s Digital Media Program. Though she is currently working on an art project for her AP Studio Art 2D portfolio, which will be comprised of drawings and paintings that she will submit to the AP board at the end of the school year, Linnea is a budding artist whose work has been seen all around Rye. 

Linnea created the logo for Rye’s Time Capsule Project, a collaboration with the Rye Historical Society celebrating Rye's 350th anniversary. The project involved commissioning objects from students and organizations throughout Rye, which were buried in a time capsule in December that will be opened in 50 years.

Linnea created the logo in her graphic design class. Her teacher, Anthony Campbell, said students in the digital art program—which has grown from an enrollment of 24 students to 134 students since it was established seven years ago— are frequently commissioned to do projects for local organizations. Campbell said the goal of the program is to facilitate real world experience through collaboration with the community. 

Linnea said that when her class was commissioned to do the Time Capsule project she immediately knew what kind of logo she wanted to create.

“I knew right when we got the project that I wanted to incorporate a clock into the logo because it dealt with time, and I wanted to make it sophisticated,” she said. “I also chose to make it pretty simple, so that it could easily be placed on any documents or posters used by the organization.”

Linnea, who is also involved in both the art and literary clubs for Zephyr magazine, the school’s literary magazine, said she loved the digital art class because “all of the projects were pretty open-ended, so we had a lot of artistic freedom.”

She plans to be an art major in college.


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