Cicilline Announces Winners of 2013 Congressional Art Competition

PAWTUCKET – U.S. Congressman David Cicilline announced today that high school students Kalyn Carley of Barrington Christian Academy, Charlie Shea of Middletown High School, and Teegan Kilcoyne of the Met School East Bay Campus are the winners of his 2013 Congressional Art Competition.

“These talented Rhode Island students make our state proud with their creativity and artistic ingenuity, and I thank everyone who helped make this competition so successful. Each work submitted through my office was exceptional, and I only regret that we could choose just one winner,” said Cicilline.

First place winner Teegan Kilcoyne, a Bristol resident, will receive roundtrip airline tickets to Washington, D.C. in order to attend a congressional reception and see her art put on display in the United States Capitol. Charlie Shea, a Middletown resident who took second place, will have his work displayed in Cicilline’s Capitol Hill office, while Barrington resident Kalyn Carley’s work will be featured in Cicilline’s Pawtucket office.

The judges for Cicilline’s Art Competition were Randy Rosenbaum, Executive Director of the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, RISCA Community Arts Program Director Elena Calderon Patino and RiverzEdge Arts Project Executive Director Rebekah Greenwald Speck. The submitted pieces of art were judged for creativity, originality, technical skills, subject matter and creative impact.

The competition, sponsored by the U.S. House of Representatives, recognizes and encourages high school artists both in Rhode Island’s First Congressional District and across the nation. Cicilline coordinated his contest for high school students in the First Congressional District.