The Connecticut Scholastic Art Awards have chosen 9 Wilton High School students as 2019 winners. This art competition is the largest, most prestigious juried student art exhibition in the state.
The 2019 Connecticut Regional Scholastic Art Awards exhibition features select work from schools throughout Connecticut in grades 7- 12. From approximately 3000 total art entries, 787 works were accepted for exhibition at the University of Hartford.
There are seventeen categories in the art competition and this year, Wilton High School students had a very strong showing in the ceramics category with five Gold Keys awarded, including one to Julianna Russo for best in category for her Useless Tea Set.
" My ceramic work is inspired by everything I see, feel and experience” says Russo “My work has developed and evolved over the past three years that I have been working with clay, from functional work to more sculptural work. My teacher, Ms. Currier, has pushed me to think outside the box and to alter my work which has taken my artwork to the next level."
Susanna Brandt, who has taught art at Wilton High School for 18 years was similarly very proud of the accomplishments of the 12 Wilton Students “It is important that the work and creative efforts of these students has been recognized. These students have put in many hours of hard work into their art pieces and it is wonderful that they have been given the opportunity to have them displayed in a professional gallery "
All of the students’ works were exhibited at the Hartford Art School earlier this year for the 29th annual Connecticut Regional Scholastic Art Awards. The program is an affiliate of the National Scholastic Art Awards and the Young Artists and Writers.
Gold Key award winners will have their art reviewed by a panel of judges at the national competition in March. The national jury will select Gold Medal National winners whose artwork will be exhibited in New York City in June. The national student awards ceremony will be held at Carnegie Hall in mid-June.
Students whose work was exhibited are:
Zoey Araquel, Ceramics & Glass, Deep Thoughts, Honorable Mention
Emma Caldwell, Ceramics & Glass, Laced Together, Gold Key
Davis Cote, Ceramics & Glass, Dancing Sawgrass, Gold Key
Megan McNamara, Ceramics & Glass, Driftwood Dunes Gold Key
Julianna Russo, Ceramics & Glass, Useless Tea Set Gold Key CÆA Best in Ceramics
Maud Seymour, Ceramics & Glass, Tea for Me Gold Key
Caroline Luciano, Mixed Media Photograph, - Ella Rose Gold Key
Christopher Shaw, Design, Figure Ground Typography Honorable Mention
Giana Zaccone, Fashion, Fallen Angel Gold Key
Published on Feb 1 2019 1:22 PM
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