The Middletown Press (Middletown, CT)
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