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Clara Isom is a student, artist, and musician interested in the intersection of science and the arts.
Clara Isom is a student, artist, and musician interested in the intersection of science and the arts.
Editorial illustrations created for The Stinger, Emmaus High School's student newspaper.
Medium: Micron Pens, Colored Pencils, and Watercolor
Created for an article discussing what Donald Trump's election could mean for Americans, with a particular focus on the potential destruction of the Department of Education...
Awards: Scholastic Art & Writing National Silver Medal • Pennsylvania Press Club 1st Place Cartooning • National Federation of Press Women 3rd Place Illustration
Medium: Ink and Watercolor
Throughout U.S. history, the Statue of Liberty has stood as a symbol of hope and freedom for all those who came to our country seeking better opportunities...
Medium: Micron Pens and Watercolor
Created for an editorial covering the history of the Lenni Lenape tribe, which historically lives in the region of Emmaus High School...
Medium: Micron Pens and Watercolor
Created for an editorial covering patriotism in school, with a focus on how the requirement of both the Pledge of Allegiance and the National Anthem may cause students to feel less patriotic...
Medium: Mixed Media Collage
Created for an opinion article covering what it is like being a woman, and how it's hard to live in a world with so many strict guidelines on who you can be...
Medium: Ink and Watercolor
Created for an article covering how the SAVE Act would impact voting rights, particularly for women and immigrants, this illustration highlights the importance of protecting every citizen's right to vote.
Medium: Ink and Watercolor
Created for an article addressing gun violence and the need to create gun reforms to protect children, this illustration emphasizes the urgency of the issue and the impact on families.
Medium: Colored Pencil, Oil pastels, chalk pastels
This piece is a self-portrait of Clara as a child. It was created to capture her connection with nature from a young age...
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
This piece is a portrait of Clara's great grandmother, based off a photo found in her grandmother's house.
Medium: Oil Pastel, acrylic paint
This piece is a portrait created using oil pastels and acrylic paint on illustration board. Its complex color scheme were used to better convey the emotions of the subject.
Medium: Acrylic
This is a abstract painting inspired by mold and organelles that can be veiwed under microscopes. To build texture layers of gloss varnish were built up in certain areas...
Medium: Felt work, beads
This piece is of three felted fish (one salmon and two rainbow trout), as they travel down a river (as represented by the wet felted background)...
Medium: Feltwork
This piece was created to imitate the look of taxidermied insects through needle felting.
Medium: Colored pencil
This piece was created with a focus on realism, and an attention to lighting in an indoor setting.
Oboe Performance by Clara Isom
English Horn Performance by Clara Isom
Blue Lake Masterworks Orchestra
Clara Isom is a high school senior with a passion for both the sciences and the arts. She hopes to study Environmental Engineering in college, with the goal of working on environmentally beneficial projects related to sustainable energy solutions, and addressing climate change to serve and conserve the natural world.
Her analytical approach to problem-solving informs her political cartoons, which have earned national recognition through student journalism awards. As an All-State oboist in Pennsylvania, Clara is dedicated to exploring the emotional depth of classical repertoire through performance.
Beyond the studio and concert hall, Clara founded the Emmaus High School Hydroponics Club, combining her love of science with her passion for nature and the environment. Whether cultivating plants, exploring outdoor ecosystems, creating art, or maintaining a bioactive terrarium for her crested gecko, Cheerio, she approaches each pursuit with curiosity and care.
Clara believes that creativity and logic are not opposing forces, but complementary tools for understanding and improving the world.
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