Local students win big at Future Choices art contest

GUILFORD — Shoreline Arts Alliance, in conjunction with Lyme Academy College, granted more than $800,000 in scholarships and awards recently at the annual Future Choices contest.

A panel of professional jurors chose awards for best in show and first, second and third place in ceramics, drawing, mixed media, painting, pastels, photography, prints, sculpture, and animation and video, according to a press release.

Future Choices is an annual art competition and exhibition open to all high school students in grades nine through 12 who live or attend school in Branford, Chester, Clinton, Cromwell, Deep River, Durham, East Haven, East Hampton, East Lyme, Essex, Guilford, Haddam, Killingworth, Lyme, Madison, Middlefield, Middletown, North Branford, Old Lyme, Old Saybrook, Portland, Salem and Westbrook.

Homeschool and boarding school students are also welcome to participate.

Middlesex County artists awarded include:

Ceramics: second place, Tori Adamczyk, Valley Regional High School; third place, Alicia Sleight, Haddam-Killingworth High School

Drawing: first place, Isabelle McDonald, Valley Regional, second place, Hannah DiMartino, Nathan Hale-Ray High School; honorable mention: Isabella Siewert, East Hampton High School

Mixed Media: first place, Miranda Martinez, Hale-Ray

Painting: honorable mention – Adriana Wilmer, Coginchaug Regional High School

Pastel: first place, Nicole DiStasio, Middletown High School

Photography: first place, Samuel Swap, Valley Regional; second place, Riley Pawlewitz, East Hampton; third place, Jill Jacek, Coginchaug; honorable mention: Isabella Brashears and Samuel Swap, Valley Regional

Sculpture: first place, Annie Cooper, Valley Regional; Adriana Wimler, Coginchaug.

Scholarship winners: Haddam-Killingworth High School: Emma Anziano, Matthew Jennings, Kerri Peoples, Melissa Thomson; Valley Regional: Carolyn Raymond

Contributed photo Coginchaug Regional High School student Adriana Wilmer, Nicole DiStasio, of Middletown High School; Samuel Swap, of Valley Regional High School; and Riley Pawlewitz, of East Hampton High School were among those who earned scholarships and awards in...

Upper left is “Jack,” which earned an honorable mention in drawing for Isabella Siewert.