Wickford Art Association Announces High School Scholarship Winners

NORTH KINGSTOWN, RI—High school artists from Portsmouth, Bristol, Providence and Scituate have won cash scholarship prizes for college plus an invitation to exhibit at the 55th Wickford Art Festival in July. According to the Wickford Art Association, which presented the annual Scholarship Fund awards on March 31, the winners are

• 1st Place - $2,500: Remy Poissen from Classical High School, Providence;
• 2nd Place - $1.500: Mathew Charles Zanni from Ponaganset High School, North Scituate;
• 3rd Place - $1,000: Rebecca Steinbach from Portsmouth High School, Portsmouth; and

The Rhode Island Art Education Association winner is:

• Presidents Award -$500: Jackson Kneath from Mount Hope High School, Bristol.

Also, nine students received Honorable Mention. They are:

Kelly Bryant, Coventry High School;

Amelia Castelli, Scituate High School;

Jordan Delisle, Lincoln High School;

Katelin Fish, East Greenwich High School;

Michaela LaCroix, North Kingstown High School;

Tiffany LaRose, North Providence High School;

Shannon Mathis, Middletown High School;

Elinor Swanson, South Kingstown High School; and

Avery Weckman, Narragansett High School.

Each Rhode Island public high school choose one senior art student for consideration. The competition uses National Scholastic Standards overseen by the Rhode Island Art Educators Association.