Lincoln Hauret has proven to be an artisan both on and off the field for University Heights Academy.
The senior has been a multi-season starter for UHA’s soccer team that recently won the school’s first region championship since 2011.
However, his love of the art field blossomed over the summer as part of the Governor’s School for the Arts..
“The whole thing was just practicing on our art skills, working to get better, and trying to find things we like or haven’t explored yet,” he said.
Even though Lincoln is a gifted artist, he was admittedly nervous about his multi-week stay at the University of Kentucky over the summer.
“I wasn’t ready and was really nervous. I thought it was going to be a lot more sophisticated and people were going to be a lot harder on me, but once I got there, I learned that it’s more of a creative space and people are always open to listen and learn and help you out.”
Lincoln’s love of the arts began as a six-year-old drawing Marvel characters.
“When I was really little, my mom said, ‘Maybe you should try drawing something,’ and I drew these Marvel characters. I drew the Hulk and Spider-Man, and she was like ‘wow, you’re so good at that’ and she posted them on Facebook,” he said.
“Going into middle school, I started again with anime characters, and I really liked that, and it gave me the drive to keep drawing and keep doing art.”
Lincoln began taking art classes in school as a way to develop his craft, which was continuing to grow.
“The classes taught me things like the Loomis method, where you can learn how to draw shapes and heads and figures and stuff like that.”
Of course, drawing humans isn’t the easiest discipline, especially if they are well-known and commonplace.
“Trying to keep everything proportional is tough, so going from making the head and then being proportionate to the body is definitely one of the hardest things,” he said.
While drawing is his favorite, he did learn another discipline at GSA that piqued his interest.
“My favorite thing that I worked on was ceramics and sculpture. I created a sculpture that was supposed to embody a vessel, and you were supposed to show what like your body is. I made a fire sculpture and I thought that was really interesting,” he said.
On the soccer field, Lincoln earned All-District and All-Region honors as a team leader. His senior season ended in late September when a collision with another player resulted in a broken leg. On crutches one day after surgery, Lincoln joined his teammates on senior night and stayed with the team even though he couldn’t play.
He was on the sidelines at Henderson County when the Blazers won the region championship and was chosen by his teammates to accept the trophy afterwards.
“He’s such a big part of our team, and such a great kid,” UHA soccer coach Josh Nichols said. “To his credit, (staying around) that’s not easy. Some people don’t want to do that once they get hurt, but he’s been here for everything. He was at the hospital that night, telling the guys to win it for him and go get it for him. He’s the biggest vocal supporter over there, and I’m just so impressed with him more and more every day.”
Lincoln carries a 4.0 GPA and is looking at an engineering major in college with a minor in architecture.
Selected works of Lincoln Hauret
