The CCC Team
Where the Passion Begins
Joshua Villagomez
Advisor / Supervisor
Mr. Villagomez is our advisor for the CCC.
Peter Lee
President/Founder/ Craft-maker
Peter Lee is a student at Interlake High School. He is the co-founder and president of the CCC. He has 7 years of experience in art and has touched on different mediums, such as sketching, painting, origami, digital, and many others. He has also been volunteering in the Bellevue Arts Museum since freshman year and has a deep understanding in the cultural diversity and different ways of expressing themes through art.
Yash Mathur
Vice-President/ Craft-maker
Yash is a student at Interlake High School. He is actively involved in coding and loves to play tennis. His favorite art medium is to paint, and specifically, his favorite paint is acrylic paint because it dries fast. Yash strongly vouches the importance of diverse crafts.
Raza Khan
Craft-maker
Raza is a student at Interlake High School. He loves to code, make digital art, and exercise on his free time. His favorite art medium is digital art, and he loves logo design and computerized art. Raza is ecstatic to make cultural crafts that represent diverse cultures.
Arantxa Mata Jaime
Executive Officer/Craft-maker
Arantxa is a student at Interlake High School. Although she really enjoys sketching and creating different characters, she recently got into digital painting and it has become one of her favorite art mediums. She enjoys doodling and doing all kinds of crafts in and out of school (ex. stained glass). She has been swimming for a while and she really likes trying other sports, like dancing to hip hop, jazz, or even ballet. She is very passionate in trying new things, and is looking forward to spread cultural diversity through her art!
Khammy Fang
Craft-maker
Khammy is a student at Interlake High School. She loves to make origami and watercolor art and is part of Interlake DECA. She strongly vouches the importance of diverse crafts and is ecstatic to participate.
Adi Chatterjee
Craft-maker
Adi Chatterjee is a student in Interlake High School. He has plenty of hobbies like soccer, jazz dancing, beat production, and characters drawing. Pretty much a jack of all trades but a master of none. He was originally situated from India and still Indian at heart, so through this club, he hopes to depict a piece of his culture through cultural craft creation and his creativity.
Dylan Wallace
Craft-maker
Dylan is a student at Interlake High School. His favorite art medium is acrylic paint since he likes the way acrylic paintings look and how seamlessly you can blend colors. His hobbies are lifting weights, programming, watching YouTube, hunting and fishing, and playing guitar. Dylan is looking forward to make more quality and diverse cultural crafts moving forward.
Saalik Ahmed
Craft-maker
Saalik is a student in Interlake High School. He enjoys coding, watching Anime, and working out. His favorite art medium is painting because he thinks that the style and texture looks the most interesting. Saalik is looking forward to creating cultural crafts of many different cultures.
Audric Huang
Craft-maker
Audric Huang is a student at Interlake High School. He likes to code, hike, and play the piano in his free time. His favorite art medium is pencil and paper and drawing detailed models. He is looking forward to expressing his creativity and taking a look at other's creativity as well!
Samya El Boghdadi
Craft-maker
Samya is a student in Interlake High School. Samya's hobbies include reading, listening to music, and cheer. She also loves eating ramen. She enjoys doing digital art on procreate, as well as creating more traditional multimedia art. She is excited to creating crafts of different traditional mediums and meanings, and express her creativity to others!
Anjai Misra
Craft-maker
Anjai Misra is a student in Interlake High School. He loves to listen to music. His favorite art medium is origami. He also enjoys tennis and has been playing for 9 years, having a peak ranking of #15 in the state. He also enjoys math class and biology, and plans on studying medicine in college. He used to play basketball and baseball, and currently plays fantasy football. He can't wait to get started and produce traditional cultural crafts for others to see!
Ke "Max" Jiang
Craft-maker
Ke is a student at Interlake High School. He enjoys reading, exercising, and building rockets both in real life and digitally. His favorite art medium is sketching, and has studied in oil pastel and painting. Ke is eager to represent his culture to the community, and also improve his own skill with each work.
Zephan Stevens
Craft-maker
Zephan is a student in Interlake High School. He enjoys reading, sports, band, and drawing. He is interested in all types of art whether it be digital or physical. He is excited to make crafts representative of various different cultures.
Claire Yiwen Li
Craft-maker
Claire is a student at Interlake High School. Her favorite art medium is digital art, as it is very portable and there is an endless selection of colors, brushes, and cool features. She also enjoys copic markers because of the wide variety of colors and the ability to smoothly apply them (smudging, gradation, layering). Her hobbies include creative writing, piano, going on runs, and reading.
Jerry Liu
Craft-maker
Jerry is a student at Interlake High School. He enjoys seeing any type of canvas painting because he thinks the texture is very pleasant to look at. In his free time, he swims, works out, and plays games. He is excited to see all the new crafts that are made and to learn more about the cultural significance behind various cultural crafts.
Josh Yeh
Craft-maker
Josh is a student at Interlake High School. He is actively involved in the school tennis team, and on his free time, he loves to rock climb. His favorite art medium is sketching with pencil because he likes to create shading with different hues of grey. Josh believes that the interaction with diversified crafts and understanding its history is very important.
Shirley Yu
Craft-maker
Shirley is a student at Interlake High School. Her favorite art mediums are oil paint, clay, and watercolor, all of which take different techniques and amounts of time to finish. Her favorite hobbies are oil painting, writing, watching Youtube, and learning and watching Princess and the Frog. She is looking forward to learning more about the cultures and gaining experience in making diverse cultural crafts to hone her skill!
Eric Lin
Craft-maker
Eric is a student of Interlake High School, and a frequent member of the cultural crafts club. He likes to work on 3 dimensional artworks, and likes origami, sculpting, or pottery. He plays guitar and badminton, and is also a member of Interlake's debate team. His favorite musical artist is Mac Miller. Eric is looking to get more involved with his community, and hopes to make a positive impact on people's lives with his crafts.
Austin Hong
Craft-maker
Austin is a student at Interlake High School. His favorite hobbies of playing chess, watching YouTube, and browsing art galleries in museums led him to be interested him to creating art. His favorite medium is watercolor, because of the various tones of color that it expressed, and they give the paintings a lot more emotion and nature. Austin enjoys and is looking forward to creating cultural crafts, as it awakens his artistic side!
Sheehan Ganguly
Craft-maker
Sheehan is a student at Interlake High School. His favorite art medium is abstract art because of the various ways one can interpret abstract art. His hobbies include playing soccer, watching sports, hanging out with friends, and playing piano. Sheehan is looking forward to exploring different methodologies of creating art, and being able to express his creativity while learning about other cultures!
Heramba Patil
Craft-maker
Heramba is a student at Interlake High School. His favorite art medium is charcoal due to its versatility and the plethora of beautiful artworks that can be created with it. He loves that even a black and white artwork can create so much meaning and detail. His hobbies include water polo, programming, and working out.
Poorva Mishra
Craft-maker
Ava (Poorva) is a student attending Interlake High School. Her favorite art medium is graphite pencils as they are easy to shade with and to erase. Some of her hobbies are baking, singing, dancing, acting, and going on walks with her dog. She hopes to learn more about different diverse cultures through this club, and being able to express herself through her creativity.
Roman Sycz
Craft-maker
Roman is a student at Interlake High School. His favorite art form is 3D Art because of the ability to observe the art from multiple angles as well as the physical connection to it. He also likes digital art because human limitations do not interfere with the creation of this type of art, therefore allowing for endless possibilities. His hobbies include playing soccer, hiking, and reading. He hopes to contribute by expressing his own creativity through traditional crafts while learning more about the history behind other cultures.
Manas Raut
Craft-maker
Manas is a student at Interlake High School. His favorite art medium is sketching since he likes the imperfections that come with a pencil that add a lot of character and originality to a work. His hobbies are theatre, playing badminton, watching Formula 1, cooking, collecting watches, listening to rock music, and playing the tabla. Manas is looking forward to making more quality and diverse cultural crafts and trying different mediums of art moving forward.
Saron Gebrehiwot
Craft-maker
Saron is a student at Interlake High School. She love listening to music and watching movies in my free time, and is an avid violin student here in the Interlake orchestra program. She looks forward to strengthening, practicing and learning more about different elements of art and cultures within those arts.
Shivani Sinha
Craft-maker
Shivani is a student at Interlake High School. She enjoys studying and learning business and loves to hang out with her friends. She loves to do thick canvas paintings, specifically using color pencils. She is ecstatic to make cultural crafts that represent diverse cultures.
Nicole Zhou
Craft-maker
Nicole is a student at Interlake High School. She loves to travel and she loves to go to concerts with her friends as well as the beach. She believes that the interaction with diversified crafts and understanding its history is very important.
Tony Wu
Craft-maker
Tony is a student at Interlake High School. He enjoys playing games such as Valorant and he likes to make art on his free time. He is looking forward to make more quality and diverse cultural crafts moving forward.
Amina Boldsaikhan
Craft-maker
Amina is a student at Interlake High School. She loves to sculpt on her free time, loves to hang out with her friends, and likes watching TV shows. She is excited to make crafts and learn about the significance behind each one.
Karin Kumazawa
Craft-maker
Karin is a student at Interlake High School. She loves to ski and hike difficult trails and she loves creating graphic and vintage art from Japanese influences. She is looking forward to creating cultural crafts of many different cultures.
Fiona Wallis
Craft-maker
Fiona is a student at Interlake High School. She is part of the Interlake cheer team, loves going to concerts, and hanging out with friends and exploring vibrant city landscapes. She is looking forward to expressing his creativity and taking a look at other's creativity as well!
Rose Shahabi
Craft-maker
Rose is a student at Interlake High School. She loves to create Japanese and Persian inspired art, loves to create art on her free time, and her favorite medium is charcoal and paintmarker. She is excited to creating crafts of different traditional mediums and meanings, and express her creativity to others!
Devon Mccraley
Craft-maker
Devon is a student at Interlake High School. He is in the Interlake varsity soccer team, loves to spend time with family, and loves to hike with his brother. He can't wait to get started and produce traditional cultural crafts for others to see!
Catherine Zhang
Craft-maker
Catherine is a student at Interlake High School. She loves to doodle with both color pencil and digital paint, especially Japanese-based art. She also volunteers at the Bellevue Arts Museum. She is eager to represent her culture to the community, and also improve her own skill with each work.
Abhijit Guttikonda
Craft-maker
Abhijit is a student at Interlake High School. He loves to do track and loves playing cricket. He enjoys studying biology and sketches for fun. He is excited to make crafts representative of various different cultures.
Shirley Yu
Craft-maker
Shirley is a student at Interlake High School. She enjoys drawing realistic scenes and still-life based art, especially involving flowers and birds. She is also a fanatic for Asian cuisine. She is very passionate in trying new things, and is looking forward to spread cultural diversity through her art!
Arman Murat
Craft-maker
Arman is a student at Interlake High School. He loves to go to car meets, likes to skateboard, and enjoys thrifting. He is looking forward to learning more about the cultures and gaining experience in making diverse cultural crafts to hone her skill!
Nikita Joshi
Craft-maker
Nikita is a student at Interlake High School. She loves to spend time with her friends and family and likes to go shopping and enjoys eating out. She is looking to get more involved with his community, and hopes to make a positive impact on people's lives with his crafts.
Leonardo Louie
Craft-maker
Leonardo is a student at Interlake High School. He enjoys woodcutting projects on his own time, and he enjoys watching soccer and football - a big fan of the Seahawks and Sounders. He is highly interested in photography. He enjoys and is looking forward to creating cultural crafts, as it awakens his artistic side!
Akshar Adurty
Craft-maker
Akshar is a student at Interlake High School. He enjoys computer science and likes to play cricket and solve math problems. He hopes to contribute by expressing his own creativity through traditional crafts while learning more about the history behind other cultures.
Claire Yiwen Li
Craft-maker
Claire is a student at Interlake High School. She enjoys making Chinese-themed art and also loves to do pen drawings. She is looking forward to exploring different methodologies of creating art, and being able to express his creativity while learning about other cultures!
Bao-vy Tran
Craft-maker
Bao-vy is a student at Interlake High School. She loves to do acrylic paintings and enjoys eating out with friends and family. She is looking forward to making more quality and diverse cultural crafts and trying different mediums of art moving forward.
Nithya Prakash
Craft-maker
Nithya is a student at Interlake High School. She loves to volunteer with the youth and enjoys digital painting, and she likes going to parks and concerts. She looks forward to strengthening, practicing and learning more about different elements of art and cultures within those arts.
Sunny Shen
Craft-maker
Sunny is a student at Interlake High School. She enjoys making three-dimensional art with materials found at home, and she likes sushi. She strongly vouches the importance of diverse crafts.
Ahad Ather
Craft-maker
Ahad is a student at Interlake High School. He enjoys making music with guitar and loves to spend time with his friends at the mall. He is an avid history buff. He is ecstatic to make cultural crafts that represent diverse cultures.
Liza Caetano
Craft-maker
Liza is a student at Interlake High School. She loves to go to concerts with friends and loves Asian cuisine. She loves to visit art museums. She is looking forward to creating cultural crafts of many different cultures.
Rhea Chempananical
Craft-maker
Rhea is a student at Interlake High School. She loves going to museums as well as the arcade, and loves to listen to music on her free time. She is excited to make crafts and learn about the significance behind each one.
Miyuka Kannadaguli
Craft-maker
Miyuka is a student at Interlake High School. She enjoys thrifting and loves to spend time with her family at restaurants as well as dogs. She is looking forward to make more quality and diverse cultural crafts moving forward.
Szeching Liu
Craft-maker
Szeching is a student at Interlake High School. He enjoys spending time with family, likes to do math problems, and playing golf. He believes that the interaction with diversified crafts and understanding its history is very important.
Arnav Mohan
Craft-maker
Arnav is a student at Interlake High School. He enjoys playing games with his friends and loves to do sleepovers and wants to pursue a computer science career. He is looking forward to expressing his creativity and taking a look at other's creativity as well!
Johnathan Samano Trujillo
Craft-maker
Johnathan is a student at Interlake High School. He enjoys looking at art exhibitions, likes cats, and spend time with his friends. He can't wait to get started and produce traditional cultural crafts for others to see!
Drew Spier
Craft-maker
Drew is a student at Interlake High School. He enjoys writing, loves to watch movies and shows, and spending time with many of his friends. He is eager to represent his culture to the community, and also improve his own skill with each work.
Ishaan Venkat
Craft-maker
Ishaan is a student at Interlake High School. He loves to do code and design, enjoys go-kart racing and track, and listening to music. He is excited to make crafts representative of various different cultures.
Selina Yao
Craft-maker
Selina is a student at Interlake High School. She likes listening to lo-fi music, loves to read, and spending time with family. She is very passionate in trying new things, and is looking forward to spread cultural diversity through her art!
Peter Zakonob
Craft-maker
Peter is a student at Interlake High School. He enjoys playing games, going out with his friends, and also loves to talk with his teachers. He is looking to get more involved with his community, and hopes to make a positive impact on people's lives with his crafts.
Johnathan Zhang
Craft-maker
Johnathan is a student at Interlake High School. He likes to watch cartoons and digital painting as well as coding. He enjoys and is looking forward to creating cultural crafts, as it awakens his artistic side!
Jackie Hong Chen Zheng
Craft-maker
Jackie is a student at Interlake High School. She likes to go on late night drives, watching sports on TV, and loves to sketch with pencil. She is looking forward to exploring different methodologies of creating art, and being able to express her creativity while learning about other cultures!
Julia Zhang
Craft-maker
Julia is a student at Interlake High School. She enjoys playing tennis, doing math problems, and volunteering for the youth. She hopes to contribute by expressing his own creativity through traditional crafts while learning more about the history behind other cultures.
Andrew Lee
Founder/Craft-maker
Andrew Lee is a student at Interlake High School. After 8 years in the creative sphere, immersed learning and crafting different art mediums, Andrew has developed an intricate knowledge, connection and passion for creating art beyond the well-known mediums, highlighting the uniqueness in crafts across a multitude of cultures. As the founder of the CCC, Andrew hopes to shine light and foster interaction with diverse varieties of cultural crafts.