Congratulations to MVRHS art award winners!

Congratulations to MVRHS senior Jack Yuen for winning TWO national silver medals at the national Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, announced yesterday afternoon. While we’re awaiting details, traditionally there is a ceremony at Carnegie Hall and an exhibit of work at a gallery in Manhattan. His two awards are for a digital illustration – “Nautical Spirit” – and a painting, “Acid Rap”.

In other departmental news:

• Congratulations to Isabelle Crawford, Ewellen Carlos, Grace Kenney, Hailey Rogers, Jessica Sonia, Nicholas Chapman, Sequoia Ahren, and Amber Medeiros for winning awards in the Cape Cod Times’ “Classroom Times” photography contest. Their work was featured in a special section of yesterday’s Cape Cod Times.

• Congratulations to Ewellen Carlos for having her artwork chosen for the cover of the 2015 Oak Bluffs Town Report.

• And be sure to stop by Featherstone Gallery on Barnes Road between now and April 8th for the “Take a Seat: The Chair Show” to see chair designs by Advanced Architecture & Design students Emerson Mahoney, Eleah Caseau, Austin Chandler, Nick Vukota, and Jullyo Lima; and photographs by Curtis Fisher, Savanna Aiello, Jessica Haynes, Caroline Roddy,

If you see any of these students, be sure to congratulate them!

Chris Baer