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11 REGIONAL STUDENTS RECEIVE
NATIONAL SCHOLASTICS AWARDS
The Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester is pleased to announce that eleven middle and high school students from the Rochester-Finger Lakes region have been recognized by the national Scholastic Art Awards.
The Rochester-Finger Lakes National Award-Winning Students:
American Visions Award (Best of Show, Rochester-Finger Lakes Region)
Johanna Morehouse, Charles G. Finney Corporate High School
Teacher: Jason Flack
Category: Drawing
Contact information: 716/387-3770
2070 Five Mile Line Road, Penfield, NY 14526
Gold Award
Frank Bancroft, School of the Arts
Teacher: Susan Medler
Category: Printmaking
Contact information: 716/242-7682
45 Prince Street, Rochester, NY 14607
Gold Award
Michael Bonavilla, Honeoye Falls-Lima High School
Teacher: Harold Coogan
Category: Video, Film & Animation
Contact information: 716/629-7050
83 East Street, Honeoye Falls, NY 14472
Gold Award
Racheal Lochner, Webster High School
Teacher: Bill Stephens
Category: Sculpture
Contact information: 716/671-1880
875 Ridge Road, Webster, NY 14580
Portfolio Silver Award
George Jorgensen, Marcus Whitman Central School
Teacher: David Hewson
Category: Art Portfolio
Contact information: 716/554-6441
Baldwin Road, Rushville, NY 14544
Portfolio Silver Award
Racheal Lochner, Webster High School
Teacher: Bill Stephens
Category: Art Portfolio
Contact information: 716/671-1880
875 Ridge Road, Webster, NY 14580
Silver Award
Nick Gurewitch, Red Jacket High School
Teacher: Karen Tretiak
Category: Drawing
Contact information: 716/289-3966
Route 21, Shortsville, NY 14584
Silver Award
Heather Phipps, Pittsford Sutherland High School
Teacher: Beth Quattrociocchi
Category: Sculpture
Contact information: 716/218-1000
55 Sutherland Street, Pittsford, NY 14534
Silver Award
Sho-Shonee Strickland, Naples Central School
Teacher: Mary Ann Martillotta
Category: textile & Fiber Design
Contact information: 716/374-6381
Main Street, Naples, NY 14512
Silver Award
Nguyen Tran, Thomas Jefferson Middle School
Teacher: Tomas Foster
Category: Painting
Contact information: 716/458-2280
1 Edgerton Park, Rochester, NY 14608
Silver Award
Donald Woodruff, School of the Arts
Teacher: Susan Tkach
Category: Environmental Design
Contact information: 716/242-7682
45 Prince Street, Rochester, NY 14607
Pinnacle Award
Erica Bryant, Our Lady of Mercy High School
Teacher: Julianne Palma
Category: Humor writing, "An Old Fashioned Pressing"
Contact information: 716/288-7120
1437 Blossom Road, Rochester, NY 14610
Johanna Morehouse's American Vision drawing and the Gold Key works by Frank Bancroft, Michael Bonavilla and Racheal Lochner will be on display at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. from June 19 - July 19, 1999. Silver Art Portfolio recipients, Racheal Lochner and George Jorgensen, receive scholarship nominations to colleges they have applied to. All award winning students will be honored at the National Scholastics Awards Ceremony, at the Corcoran Gallery in June. Erica Bryant's Pinnacle Award fiction piece will be read at the Ceremony.
Background Information
The Rochester-Finger Lakes region submitted seventy-five student art works, in media ranging from painting and drawing to metalsmithing, to the national jury. The Rochester-Finger Lakes region includes Allegany, Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Ontario, Orleans, Seneca, Wayne, Wyoming and Yates counties. Over 13,000 works by visual arts students grades 7 through 12 are submitted from throughout the United States.
Each of the 75 pieces sent to the national jury received a Gold Key award in the Rochester-Finger Lakes region's exhibition, which was held at Monroe Community College's Damon City Campus from January 25- March 12, 1999. Population determines the number of works submitted from each region to the national jury.
The Scholastic Art Awards and Exhibition is the Rochester region's longest running exhibition for junior and senior high school visual arts students. The exhibition is sponsored by a partnership of cultural, educational and business institutions and includes the Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester, manager of the project; MCC's Damon City Center, the host site; the Teachers Advisory Council, a volunteer group of art teachers, and The Chase Manhattan Bank, the corporate sponsor. The Rochester-Finger Lakes region does not sponsor Writing Awards. Individual teachers in the region send writings to the national office for review.
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