Artist of the Issue: Adie Vetrovsky
Written by: Tenny Fitzgerald
Adie Vetrovsky 26’: a Savannah Country Day student in Ms. Duthu’s fashion design class- an elective offered this year for the first time in the upper school. Adie is loving the new opportunity to design and create, “it's my favorite class” she says.
Ms. Duthu was super excited to offer the new course. She comments, “because of my background in costume design and fashion, I wanted to start a class for upper school students when I was hired in 2018. There was a group of interested students at the time, so we started a club that met during break and from there interest grew until we added it to the curriculum. It's exciting to offer such a hands-on elective in the arts program”. Ms. Duthu highlights that students in the class learn “valuable life skills that they can use in the real world.” The course “focuses on [teaching] hand sewing and machine sewing techniques, how to design a costume for a character, and how to design a character by costuming our upper school musical “Mean Girls”. The ultimate goal is to create a fashion show for the upper school fine arts night.”
Ms. Duthu describes Adie as “the perfect student”. During class time, Adie is “enthusiastic, positive, extremely creative, great at working independently and supportive of her peers”. Further, Ms. Duthu notes that when “she's confronted with a challenge, she approaches it with positivity and determination.” She is equally impactful upon her pears. Her classmates say Adie is “nice!” “bubbly!” “easy to talk to!” and “helpful”. A student in Adie's class appreciated that “In “Mean Girls”, (this year's upper school musical that Adie's class designed costumes for) Adie understood what was going on when no one else did, and she always helped everyone around her.”
Adie has “always been into fashion” but “never really learned to sew or make clothes” until this year. Growing up, Adie was inspired by her grandmother who “always encouraged [her] to work in fashion” and even “made many of her own clothes”. Adie recalls being around eight when her grandmother gifted her a manikan to design on.
Looking to the future, she plans to continue fashion “not as a career” but "definitely as a hobby”. She has been researching colleges that have “great outside programs for art… like clubs!”. Adie's favorite piece so far is a bag that is “green striped on the outside and cherry fabric on the inside”.
I am so excited to see where Adie's creativity and talent takes her!
