Visual Arts Department Hands Out Annual Awards

More than 50 middle and upper school students were honored for their artistic talent last Friday at the annual Visual Arts Awards assembly. Students were given awards in the following categories: Middle School Art, Photography, Computer Graphics, 3-Dimensional Art and Design, Ceramics, 2-Dimensional Art and Design, and Yearbook.
Visual Arts department head Lauren Cook and her colleagues Amanda Freeman, Tracey Goodrich, Hevia Paxson, and Gary Wyatt celebrated the quality of the art and design produced by the student artists this year.

Speaking directly to the student body, Cook said, “Whether it is an individual student coming in to school early to throw a pot in our ceramics studio or are AP Studio Art students staying late after school to slave over their last concentration pieces, we’ve seen you asking questions about art, exploring your world through art and expressing yourselves through art and design here at St. Andrew’s in wonderful ways all year. Our Judges’ Choice Awards spotlight the end of that story, when the artwork stands alone and is evaluated on its own merit and not on all the steps it took to create it.”

The Judges’ Choice Awards honored work that was judged by St. Andrew’s parents who are all active professionals in the fields of visual art, art education, and communications. The judges took the criteria of creativity, personal expression, risk-taking, composition, and technical skill with materials into consideration when making their choices for the best student art of the 2011-2012 school year. The winning artists’ work will be displayed in the school for one year.

The Visual Arts department also recognized the seven art shows displayed in the school’s Kreeger Gallery throughout the year as well as acknowledged the student art found in St. Andrew’s student publications The Mane News and the student literary magazine Creaturae. In addition, Goodrich praised the student ceramicists who helped raise $2,000.00 for the charity So Others Might Eat by donating over 100 bowls that they had thrown.

2012 Judges’ Choice Awardees
Middle School Art 2012 Judges’ Choice Awardees:
Tristen Chen, 2016
Sam Good, 2017
Rachel Greenberg & Sari Postal for work on a sculptural collaboration, 2017
John Henneman, 2016
Benjamin Hesse, 2016
Nicole Kittay, 2016
Will Lucas, 2017
Sari Postal, 2017
Bobby Radecki (2 awards), 2016
Elyse Sibarium & William Yeo for work on a sculptural collaboration, 2017
Jack Tsintolas, 2016
Aidan Wallace, 2016

Upper School 3-Dimensional & Ceramic Art 2012 Judges’ Choice Awardees:
Alex Armbruster, 2014
Rehan Butt (2 awards), 2012
Ella Farago, 2014
Kate Fuller, 2015
Elizabeth Holland, 2015
Ahmed Ibrahim-Hassan, 2012
Collin Smith (2 awards), 2014
Lars Sorenson, 2013
Yueqi Sun, 2015
Noa West, 2015
 
Upper School Computer Graphics 2012 Judges’ Choice Awardees:
River Albo, 2015
Tom Banks, 2015
Rehan Butt, 2012
Harry Vincent, 2014

Upper School Photography, 2012 Judges’ Choice Awardees:
Zoe Atchinson, 2012
Adam Barton, 2012
Rehan Butt, 2012
Grace Chupka, 2013
Felipe De La Hoz, 2013
Morgan Harris, 2012
Ian McLuckie, 2012
Billy Petito, 2013
Jacob Reiskin, 2013

Upper School 2-Dimensional Art 2012 Judges’ Choice Awardees:
Boni Agbaniyaka, 2012
CK Cheong, 2012
Rebekah Daniels, 2013
Emma Davey, 2013
Felipe De La Hoz, 2013
Christina Farley, 2012
Kate Fuller, 2015
Ben Greene, 2014
Alex Hastings, 2012
Randi Kontner, 2012
Memuna McShane, 2015
Abbey Michaels, 2013
Harrison Neally, 2013
Cannon Pappas, 2012
Jordan Reilly, 2015
Anne Mercer Shoenfeld, 2012
Flanders Shtasel-Kretz, 2015
Jacqueline Sisson, 2012
Alexa Tsintolas (3 awards), 2013
Daniel Wagner, 2014
Noa West, 2015
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St. Andrew’s Episcopal School is a private, coeducational college preparatory day school for students in preschool (Age 2) through grade 12, located in Potomac, Maryland.