
Five Students Earn Scholastic Art Awards

Pictured (l-r): Elena Kantor, Ellie Pedone, Maya Roopnarine, Savannah Conway, Sara Vertino.
CBA students earned a gold, two silver and six honorable mention Scholastic Art Awards recently.
The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards is the largest annual art competition in America, and the participating Central New York awards program has been honoring the creative work of junior/senior high school students well over 70 years. The program encompasses 13 Central New York regions and is sponsored by M&T Bank.
The exhibit of the winning works will be on display through March 1 at OCC’s Whitney Applied Technology Center.
Ellie Pedone ’21 made history in fine arts being the first at CBA since the program’s inception to earn Scholastic Art Awards in Ceramics; a silver key and an honorable mention.
Other award winners included:
Sara Vertino ‘19
Gold Key: Photography (Restrictions)
Silver Key: Photography (Flight), (See the Good)
Honorable Mention: Drawing & Illustration (Talk to the Hand)
Honorable Mention: Photography (New Horizons), (Self-Acceptance)
Ellie Pedone ‘21
Silver Key: Ceramics (Sea of Ombré Sky)
Honorable Mention: Ceramics (Booth Bay Oasis)
Savannah Conway ‘21
Honorable Mention: Drawing & Illustration (Mints)
Elena Kantor ‘21
Honorable Mention: Painting (A Walk Through Peace)
Maya Roopnarine ‘20
Honorable Mention: Drawing & Illustration (Seashells)
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