Congressional Art Show 2019

25th Annual Congressional Art Show

Congressman Seth Moulton, Grand Prize Winner Aiden Heney, and President Kurt T. Steinberg

Aiden Heney of Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School won the Grand Prize in the 25th Sixth District Congressional High School Art Competition at Montserrat College of Art. A ceremony to present the awards was held in the college’s Montserrat Gallery March 23. The annual event is hosted by Montserrat for Congressman Seth Moulton, and student winners were presented with certificates and nearly $20,000 in scholarships for Montserrat’s Pre-College Summer Program.

Aidan’s work will be sent to Washington DC for a June reception with the winners of all other Congressional District Competitions from across the US. It will be on display for one year.

The exhibit included more than 115 pieces from 23 different public and private high schools within the 6th District of Massachusetts, as well as home-schooled students. The exhibition was juried by John C. Archer, Artist, President, Danvers Art Association, Danielle M. Olsen, Art & Nature Center Creative Producer, Peabody Essex Museum, and Rosalie Sidoti, Artist, Graduate Program Advisor, Tufts University School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Former high school art educator.

View the event gallery here

The full list of awards include:

GRAND PRIZE
Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School	Aiden Heney	Grade 12	“Sucked Back In”
FIRST PRIZE
Manchester-Essex Regional High School	Hannah Burnett	Grade 11	“Woe”
SECOND PRIZE
Masconomet High School	Erica Ding	Grade 10	“Dark vs. Light”
THIRD PRIZE
Reading Memorial High School	Megan Coram	Grade 12	“Birdhouse”

Honorable Mention
Andover High School	Amanda McHardy	Grade 12	“Half a Glass”
Beverly High School	Laurel Fielder	Grade 12	“Boat on Vineyard Waters”
Danvers High School	Jackson Desmond	Grade 11	“Ephemeral Entry Part 2”
Landmark School	Keandra Finn	Grade 10	“Self-Portrait”
Manchester-Essex Regional High School	Margareta H. Taraska	Grade 12	“Tea Time”
North Reading High School	Oli Grabar	Grade 10	“Continuous Line Self-Portrait”
St. John’s Preparatory School	Liam V. Gildea	Grade 12	“High Tide”

Best of School
The Academy at Penguin Hall	Auden Muchnik	Grade 10	“Hear Me!”
Amesbury High School	Kenny Bailey	Grade 11	“Two Times”
Andover High School	Eileen Jih	Grade 10	“Tranquil Mind”
Beverly High School	Paula Rodriguez	Grade 11	“Blue’s Shadow”
Billerica High School	Claudia Hadley	Grade 10	“Exposed”
Bishop Fenwick High School	Colton Richie	Grade 11	“I Made This on Fry Day”
Danvers High School	Cassandra Prentiss	Grade 12	“Rambutan Madness”
Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School	Aiden Heney	Grade 12	“Sucked Back In”
Ipswich High School	Faith Powers	Grade 12	“APH Penguin Podcast Logo”
Landmark School	Elijah Kline	Grade 10	“Self-Portrait”
Lynn Classical High School	Aysit Tashkin	Grade 12	“Bloom”
Lynn English High School	Judy Nao	Grade 12	“Madness in my Pendant”
Manchester-Essex Regional High School	Hannah Burnett	Grade 11	“Woe”
Marblehead High School	Sophie Ayers	Grade 10	“Plight of the Bumblebees”
Masconomet High School	Erica Ding	Grade 10	“Dark vs. Light”
Newburyport High School	Katherine Mead	Grade 12	“Morning Sun”
North Andover High School	Bryan Wu	Grade 10	“Blurry Vision”
North Reading High School	Griffin May	Grade 11	“Arugula”
Peabody Veterans Memorial High School	Alyssa Saraceni	Grade 12	“On the Line”
Reading Memorial High School	Megan Coram	Grade 12	“Birdhouse”
St. John’s Preparatory School	Yuzhe Tian	Grade 10	“In Perpetuity”
St. Mary’s School	Trish Dinh	Grade 11	“Undefined Features”
Triton Regional High School	Allie Hawkes	Grade 12	“Crash”