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)

For more on the Scholastic Art Awards:

https://www.syracuse.com/living/2019/01/cny-scholastic-art-2019-see-the-best-paintings-drawings-photos-from-syracuse-area-students.html