West Essex High School Senior Selected for Art Award

West Essex High School senior Ariana Daly of Essex Fells was selected as the Art Administrators of New Jersey 2015 Student Achievement Award winner.

Daly will receive a $300 check and will be recognized at the New Jersey Governor’s Awards in Arts Education ceremony this spring, according to a release.

Daly received the Gold Key and Silver Key at the Regional Scholastic Art Competition as well as honorable mention at the AANJ Emerging Artists exhibition, and has had her artwork selected for the Fresh Perspectives juried exhibit at the Morris Museum.

Daly stated in a release that she plans to study art in college and “combine it with technology.”

“Art is my outlet for expressing myself and communicating without having to use words,” Daly stated. “Currently, my favorite piece of my own art is a painting I did of an unraveling person wearing a maroon sweater because I was happy with the way I captured my idea for it.”

Photo caption: West Essex High School Supervisor of the Arts Lisa Swanick, left, along with art teacher John Atura, right, congratulate senior Ariana Daly for recent artistic achievements. Daly’s project, seen in the background, was a summer assignment for Atura’s AP Studio Art class.

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