CHS and Middle School Art Students Receive Boston Globe Scholastic Art Awards

Photos: Peter Curtis, Gold Key Winner for “Lana Del Ray Concert Poster,” and Hannah Riffe, Silver Key Winner for “Serenity.”

Eighteen art students from the Chelmsford High School, Parker Middle School and McCarthy Middle School in Chelmsford were notified recently they earned awards at the Boston Globe-Scholastic Art Awards. Several students were recipients of multiple awards.

Since 1923, The Scholastic Art Awards have offered millions of students the opportunity to display their art works for regional and national recognition. The objective of the program is to foster the confidence of young artists and to invite students to broaden their horizons while winning national recognition. The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards are the largest and longest running programs of their kind in the country.

The teachers who have submitted work to the Globe Art Awards (listed below) have worked diligently and spent a significant amount of their own time working with students to develop their work, choose pieces for submission, and to edit and enter digital photos of student work.

The Boston Globe Scholastic Art Awards Program is administered by the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and works are judged by respected members of the art education community.

Students in Grades 7-12 enrolled in public and non-public schools in Massachusetts submitted entries for adjudication at the beginning of January.

There are several levels of awards:

• American Vision Nominee
• Senior Portfolio Gold Key
• Scholarship
• Gold Key
• Silver Key
• Honorable Mention

The Gold Key winning works will be on exhibit at Boston’s City Hall in March. In addition, work by students who received a Gold Key will be shipped to the national competition. If selected at the national level, their artwork may be chosen for exhibition in New York for the National Exhibit.

All students who received awards will be invited to participate in an upcoming episode of the CPS Fine Arts Department TV show, “Spotlight on Fine Arts,” that airs on Telemedia channels 22 Comcast /36 Verizon.

The following CPS students received awards for their work in the Boston Globe Scholastic Art Competition:

GOLD KEY
Peter Curtis, CHS (Teacher Ashley Cormack)
Elizabeth Salomaa (Teacher Virginia Cramer)

SILVER KEY
Owen Eastwood, CHS (Teacher Ashely Cormack)
Devin Firicano, CHS (Teacher Ashley Cormack)
Alyssa Genereux, CHS (Teacher Ashley Cormack)
Hannah Riffe, CHS (Teacher Teresa Karangioze)
Alisha Mithal, CHS (Teacher Virginia Cramer)
Elizabeth Salomaa, CHS (Teacher Virginia Cramer)
Isabelle Cole, McCarthy (Teacher Sarah Kiley)
Grace McDonnell, McCarthy (Teacher Sarah Kiley)
Priya Verma, Parker (Teacher Anita Adler)

HONORABLE MENTION
(6) Elizabeth Salomaa, CHS (Teacher Virginia Cramer)
(3) Karen Keller, CHS (Teachers Ashley Cormack and Virginia Cramer)
(2) Irena Manukian, CHS (Teacher Virginia Cramer)
(2) Crystal Zhu, CHS (Teacher Virginia Cramer)
Alyssa Genereux, CHS (Teacher Teresa Karangioze)
Darren Lye, CHS (Teacher Virginia Cramer)
Alisha Mithal, CHS (Teacher Virginia Cramer)
Jennifer Sohn, CHS (Teacher Virginia Cramer)
Madeleine Morin, Parker (Teacher Anita Adler)
Anthony Repoza, Parker (Teacher Anita Adler)
Nathaniel Morris, Parker (Teacher Anita Adler)