[portfolio_slideshow id=9638] By LINDSAY CAREYSTAFF WRITER The Board of Education recognized students from the Southington High School (SHS) Art Department for winning awards in the Connecticut Scholastic Art Awards Show held at the University of Hartford. SHS Art teacher Tom Horanzy said described the six students who won as having “shown great skill, great creativity and a passion for art work” at the celebration of excellence for the students at the Board of Education meeting on March 12. With over four hundred participants in the awards show, six students from SHS won awards ranging from gold key, silver key, and honorable mention. One student even won two awards. Shelby Thurston won a gold key for her charcoal self-portrait. Sarah Kaufmann won a silver key for a digital photograph “Haunted.” Skye Farago won two awards, a silver key for her oil pastel drawing “Blossom Tree” as well as an honorable mention for her charcoal self-portrait “Criss Cross Apple Sauce.” Allie Abacherli received an honorable mention for her oil pastel “Carousel Horse,” and Steven Drozen received an honorable mention for his self-portrait “Me N Stuff.” Jocelyn Gregor received an honorable mention oil pastel drawing of a forest picture called “Quinniapiac in the […]
[portfolio_slideshow id=9638] By LINDSAY CAREYSTAFF WRITER The Board of Education recognized students from the Southington High School (SHS) Art Department for winning awards in the Connecticut Scholastic Art Awards Show held at the University of Hartford. SHS Art teacher Tom Horanzy said described the six students who won as having “shown great skill, great creativity and a passion for art work” at the celebration of excellence for the students at the Board of Education meeting on March 12. With over four hundred participants in the awards show, six students from SHS won awards ranging from gold key, silver key, and honorable mention. One student even won two awards. Shelby Thurston won a gold key for her charcoal self-portrait. Sarah Kaufmann won a silver key for a digital photograph “Haunted.” Skye Farago won two awards, a silver key for her oil pastel drawing “Blossom Tree” as well as an honorable mention for her charcoal self-portrait “Criss Cross Apple Sauce.” Allie Abacherli received an honorable mention for her oil pastel “Carousel Horse,” and Steven Drozen received an honorable mention for his self-portrait “Me N Stuff.” Jocelyn Gregor received an honorable mention oil pastel drawing of a forest picture called “Quinniapiac in the […]