Senior year always marks a significant point in a student’s high school experience. One senior, for instance, is an accomplished and influential student and currently attending her last year here at Canyon. She’s easily recognizable and makes a difference on campus with her positivity and bold style.
Since last school year, Emory Crawford has been a prominent figure in Canyon’s Fashion Club. You’d likely know her as one of the club officers, alongside fellow seniors Taylor Zahrt and Daniela Amador. I spoke with her about her experience with the club, and she explained her initial decision to join: “I wanted to express my unique style with others and find people who are like me.”
She described her style as “all over the place; if I see something cool, I’ll wear it.” Crawford also explains that she finds inspiration from Pinterest and especially enjoys unique pieces and thrifting.
After joining the club, she designed and modeled for her very own fashion line in the club’s 2025 fashion show, making an iconic appearance that few could forget. I’m more than excited to see what she’ll put out this year!
Even before her involvement in Fashion Club, Crawford has always been a well-rounded artist. She began drawing when she was in middle school, and with the free time that the COVID pandemic allowed, decided to join her sister’s art classes and was quickly immersed into the hobby.
Crawford carried this passion into high school, and she has since completed the Digital Arts CTE Pathway that she began her freshman year. She says that the class caught her attention before attending Canyon and that she felt compelled to join after first previewing the elective during the Sierra Vista Elective Jamboree. Ironic as, since then, she has gone back twice to promote and inform incoming freshmen about the class.
Now, she is in AP Studio Art, an advanced placement class available to students who have completed two years of either the traditional or digital art pathways. The class primarily focuses on providing student artists with the freedom to build their art portfolios.
Crawford explains that her work in the class this year centers around her sustained investigation question, “Where do we go after we die?”
In her general classes, Crawford shows her academic capabilities being on honor roll with her impressive maintenance of a GPA greater than 4.0 and her sights set on graduating in white.
Yet, she is just as accomplished outside of school and lists her mom as a positive inspiration, saying, “She pushed me out of my comfort zone and always helped me become who I am as a person.”
As a senior here at Canyon, she has also started thinking about life after high school and says that after graduating she plans on majoring in graphic design and living by the coast, possibly here in California.
Overall, Crawford wishes to tell other students not to give in to the pressure of parents or friends, but to prioritize your own passions to “do what you want and stand for what you believe in.” I wish her a great rest of her time here at Canyon, and she will definitely do great things after graduation!
