Art Students Garner National and Regional Honors
Berkshire art students had great success at this year’s
prestigious Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, with two students receiving
medals at the extremely competitive National level and 13 students honored at
the regional level.
Fourth Formers Elsie Guevarra and Unyime Udoh will be
honored at New York City’s Carnegie Hall on May 31 for their natio
nally
recognized work. Unyime will receive a Silver Medal for her photograph entitled
“Adult-Friendly,” and Elsie will receive a Gold Medal for her ceramic sculpture
entitled “Spine.” Only 1500 works are chosen nationally from over 185,000
submissions. Steve Soden, Elsie’s ceramics teacher, comments that “the quality of her
work is a result of both the attention she pays to the technical aspects of her
work as well as the conceptual approach she takes to each one of her
pieces. The gold medal is a testament to Elsie's drive as a student,
acute artistic eye, and love of the creative process. Only a sophomore, her
best is yet to come.” Paul Banevicius, who works with Unyime in photography,
notes that “what makes Unyime unique as a young artist is her strong sense of
self. She already has a clear vision of what she wants to create, and her
images have a strong sense of personal identity.”
Winners at the regional level were honored in Boston in
March. Berkshire’s recipients included:
Theo Friedman: 1
Gold key for Photograph, 1
Gold key for Senior Photography Portfolio and 1
Honorable Mention for Photography
Roya Daemi: 1
Gold key for Ceramics
Jacqueline Pape: 1
Gold key for Photography
Hattie Waldron: 1
Gold key for Ceramics
Sam Cabot: 2
Silver keys for Photography
Eli Merritt: 1
Silver key for Sculpture and 2
Honorable Mentions for Sculpture
Hunter Lucey: 1
Silver key for Ceramics and 1
Honorable Mention for Ceramics
Ruby Fee: 1
Silver key for Ceramics
Elsie Guevarra: 1
Silver key for Ceramics
Tyler Kraft: 1
Silver key for Ceramics
Unyime Udoh: 2
Honorable Mentions for Photography
Kai-An Huang: 1
Honorable Mention for Ceramics
Joshua Ibanez: 1
Honorable Mention for Ceramics
-- Paul Banevicius, Art Department chair
and all-boys prep school outside of Boston, for a 1-day mini-symposium on Student Biomedical Research. The goal was to foster collaboration, communication and community outreach with our students. AMSR students Liza Bernstein '13, Sissi Wang '13, Lars Robinson '13, Elsie Guevara '13, Ernest Yue '13, and Nate MacKenzie '14, gave short talks about their work in the new Bellas/Dixon Math and Science lecture hall. The talks were followed up by break-out sessions where Belmont Hill students described their research projects and students discussed commonalities between the projects and future goals.
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