MAEA Art Educator Award Organization or School Affiliation: Wayland High School
Student Name: Kyra Lefebvre Grade: Grade 12 Artist Statement: In this color pencil piece I capture my earliest Halloween memory. Like the journey of growing up, my drawing unfolds on black paper. As life begins with simplicity, the saturated hues represent the joys of childhood, gradually transitioning to deeper shades. My experience of entering adulthood can be seen with this piece, both maturity and innocence building who I am. Teacher: Veronique Latimer
Overmedicated
MAEA Art Educator Award Organization or School Affiliation: Pentucket Regional High School
Student Name: Chloe Hurd Grade: Grade 12 Artist Statement: Overmedicated, aims to display the perspective of many Americans who are wrongfully prescribed harmful medication and the reliance on medicine we have in the States. I collaged prescription bottle labels, using acrylic overtop to give the subject a more jarring, abstract look, and contrasting it with the background. I wanted a complex yet direct message, to reflect a dependency shared by so many. Teacher: Marcia Nadeau
To the Moon and Back
MAEA Art Educator Award Organization or School Affiliation: Wayland High School
Student Name: Tristen Chow Grade: Grade 11 Artist Statement: When given the opportunity to create art, I tend to fall back to my roots and reach for inspiration from my family. This piece was created as an artistic ode to my Chinese heritage—but most importantly to highlight the admiration I have for my grandmother—through this etched adaptation of her old wedding bangles. Teacher: Amy O'Connell
Time After Time
MAEA Art Educator Award Organization or School Affiliation: Canton High School
Student Name: Hannah Isaac Grade: Grade 12 Artist Statement: My piece embodies an unnatural influence, representing the hold time and stress holds over us. My subject's facial expression is neutral, but her body language and features contorted by the external force of her hands contrast it as she looks up to some unseen influence. I enjoyed expressing emotion through body language as well as color and lighting that reflected the mood of the piece. Teacher: Patricia Palmer, Canton High School
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MAEA Art Educator Award Organization or School Affiliation: Somerset Berkley Regional High School
Student Name: Sydney Bednarz Grade: Grade 12 Artist Statement: My work is a criticism of the glamorization of drugs in media targeted towards youth. These photos are intentionally overdone and glamorized to show the younger audience's perspective and acknowledge this is what the content looks like to kids and young adults. When artists and content creators make drug use "aesthetic," they need to be held accountable for the damage they inflict on youth. Teacher: Ginny Troutman
Malignant Humans
Davis Publications Drawing Award Organization or School Affiliation: Athol High School
Student Name: Sean Kelley Grade: Grade 11 Artist Statement: This piece is of humanized Earth being killed by her own creations. We aren't yet at the point in which there is no hope, we can still resuscitate our dying planet. I worked with alcohol markers, watercolors, colored pencils, and tempera. To further the point cosmetic products were used. Wax-based chapstick and hydrophilic eyeliner were utilized to express the wastefulness of human consumption. Teacher: Eleonora Halstead
Two-Bit
Davis Publications Drawing Award Organization or School Affiliation: Oliver Ames High School
Student Name: Abigail Holmes Grade: Grade 11 Artist Statement: “Two-Bit” is a piece, done in colored pencil, centered around my tortoise, Two-Bit, as the title suggests. The piece highlights the upclose intricacies of animals and objects that we see in everyday life. Patterns, such as those in Two-Bit’s shell, often go unnoticed, so I decided to highlight him and his beautiful design. There is so much art in nature and Two-Bit’s shell really emphasizes that. Teacher: Kristyn Shea
Growing Pains
Davis Publications Painting Award Organization or School Affiliation: Norwood High School
Student Name: Melissa Colella Grade: Grade 12 Artist Statement: “Growing Pains” is an expression of the change in coming of age. Leaving childhood comes with discomfort and denial. The young woman in the painting is cramped into a baby’s crib—a symbol of childhood—with no apparent effort to get out. Keeping herself in this confined space does not stop the passage of time but limits her from finding peace in her next stage of life. Teacher: Laurie Mead McGrory
Consciousness, Chance, Change
Davis Publications Mixed Media Award Organization or School Affiliation: Groton-Dunstable Regional High School
Student Name: Amy Loveless Grade: Grade 12 Artist Statement: The idea of this piece is how sometimes what you know best is actually hurting you the most, and although change can be scary, in the end, you'll be brighter and more colorful and shine more than you did before. I came to the conclusion of using three separate canvases' to demonstrate the three different stages we take in changing ourselves in these situations, Consciousness, Chance, and Change. Teacher: Rebecca Kostich
Eye of the Beholder
Davis Publications Photography Award Organization or School Affiliation: Somerset Berkley Regional High School
Student Name: Kayla Casper Grade: Grade 12 Artist Statement: Photography allows you to express yourself in different ways while communicating life experiences. This flipped photo makes me imagine that the person looking through the crystal ball is viewing both the past and present. By controlling the aperture of the camera and creating sharp focus on the hand and eye, I was able to capture a window as well as a detailed look into the eye of the subject. Teacher: Ginny Troutman
Trip to the Aquarium
Davis Publications Digital/Graphic Designy Award Organization or School Affiliation: Millis High School-Art Dept
Student Name: Lucian Hastings Grade: Grade 12 Artist Statement: In this piece, I wanted to portray something breathtaking, that takes up your whole mind for a moment, letting you forget about everything else. As a kid, I loved to watch the sea creatures at the aquarium, my favorite being jellyfish. They seemed so peaceful, gracefully floating in the water. I could stare at them for hours, wondering what it would be like as a jellyfish, drifting through life. Teacher: Amy Radcliffe
Transcendence
Davis Publications Ceramics Award Organization or School Affiliation: Franklin High School
Student Name: AMELIA DEWSNAP Grade: Grade 12 Artist Statement: Transcendence showcases the spiritual connection found within the mind, body, and soul. Here, I sculpted a human head, which is glazed to reflect nature. Then, bright, metallic, and organic colored Raku orbs grow out of the body to highlight our spiritual awareness. Finally, all these components work together telling a story about our individual connections to the universe. Teacher: Brenna Johnson
I'm Stumped
Davis Publications Sculpture Award Organization or School Affiliation: Falmouth High School
Student Name: Amelia Donnelly Grade: Grade 12 Artist Statement: This piece was inspired by a fall field trip as well as my grandparents' back yard. This stump was made by cutting fabric strips that were different colors and gluing them concentrically to a cardboard base. I then dyed more fabric strips to mimic bark patterns over a plaster and paper framework. Thread, marker and acrylic paints were used to add details. Teacher: Jane Baker
Fractal
Davis Publications Jewelry Award Organization or School Affiliation: Wayland High School
Student Name: Dasha Tveretinova Grade: Grade 12 Artist Statement: I saw this stone in New York and immediately knew that I wanted to make some sort of jewelry out of it. To set the stone I used prongs, which took a little while to get it right, but eventually I did it and was very happy with how it came out. The stone itself is very elegant, so I wanted to keep the design pretty simple, but clean so that the metalwork wouldn't clash with the stone. Teacher: Amy O'Connell
In omnia paratus
Davis Publications Fashion Award Organization or School Affiliation: Manchester Essex Reg SD
Student Name: Aubrey Fritsch Grade: Grade 11 Artist Statement: For this piece, I used an assortment of embellishments as well as a corset and ruffled fabric. This piece explores the concealment and secrets politicians hide from the public and it utilizes psychoanalysis of colors to convey that. Teacher: Tamera Burns
Ceramic Corset
Davis Publications Fashion Award Organization or School Affiliation: Norwood High School
Student Name: Allie Murphy Grade: Grade 12 Artist Statement: The piece I made is a ceramic corset. I sculpted the corset on my dress form. After the piece was fired I hand painted all the blue swirls onto it. My inspiration for this piece was the blue and white plates that my grandpa had. I wanted to portray this concept in my own personal way, which is clothing. Clothing/fabric is my usual medium so it was very interesting to explore a different material. Teacher: Elizabeth Mullaney
Sgraffito Plates
Organization or School Affiliation: Falmouth High School
Student Name: Maisie Chase Grade: Grade 10 Artist Statement: I used the drape molding technique to make the set of plates and used the potter's wheel to add a foot-ring to the bottom. I added black underglaze and used the sgraffito technique to illustrate the flowers and patterns. Teacher: Corine Adams
Creature
Organization or School Affiliation: Falmouth High School
Student Name: Ayla Brodet Grade: Grade 9 Artist Statement: This wolf-like creature took a lot of attention to detail and is finally completed after many difficulties. I chose to paint it with acrylics to show shading and bring out the many details in the piece. Teacher: Corine Adams
Keel-billed Toucan
Organization or School Affiliation: Falmouth High School
Student Name: Natasha Bradshaw Grade: Grade 11 Artist Statement: I wanted it to have some representation of my country, Costa Rica that it is full of life and biodiversity including Keel-Billed Toucan. I started by slap-building this vase, sculpting the toucans, coating the vase in flashing slip, and creating circled, dotted, and oval sponge patterns to later add on top of the flashing slip with underglaze. This vase was soda-fired. Teacher: Corine Adams
Toth
Organization or School Affiliation: Falmouth High School
Student Name: Dorothy Linton Grade: Grade 9 Artist Statement: A painting of my cat for an in-class portrait assignment. I used cool tones to create shadows under the warm tones of the fur. Teacher: Jane Baker
