Bay High School students took away 12 Gold Key, 15 Silver
Key, and 23 Honorable Mention awards in the 2018 Cuyahoga County
Regional Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Gold Key winners will be
forwarded to New York for judging at the national level. (View a
slideshow of Gold and Silver Keys HERE.)
Seven Gold Keys in Art category go to four Bay High seniors: Maria
DiLallo (paintings, “The Little Things” and “Family Is Not Always
Blood”), Celia Reid (photography, “Desertion”), Amelia Robinson
(painting, “Flash”) and Megan Sjoquist (comic art, “Citywalkers”;
drawing and illustration, “Paper Monsters”; and art portfolio “Full of
Life”).
Five Gold Keys in the Writing category go to four Bay High
seniors Carlen Goebel (short story, “Solitary Confinement), Emma Legeay
(poetry, “Ms. Plath”), Sara Sirignano (poetry, “My Middle School
Journal”) and Roman Vatolin (poetry, “Normalcy With Chaos); and
sophomore Elizabeth Holup (flash fiction, “Anatomy of Our Mothers”).
Twelve Silver Keys in the Art category go to seniors Abby
Coe (paintings, “The Race” and “For My Mom”), Maria DiLallo (paintings,
“The Side of Jamaica You Can’t See” and “Yeah Mon!”), Audrey Goebel
(painting, “San Francisco), Christine O’Hare (photography, “Chipped
Away”), Celia Reid (photography, “Into the Wild”) Amelia Robinson
(painting, “Bones”) and Megan Sjoquist (drawing and illustration, “Death
Be of The King” and sculpture, “Fear”); and junior Jenna Goff
(painting, “Human Architecture” and drawing and illustration, “Just
Playing”).
Three Silver Keys in the Writing category go to senior Chloe
Roberts (writing portfolio, “In My Voice: A Collection of Works”),
junior Maggie Allan (poetry, “Only Silence”) and sophomore Elizabeth
Holup (flash fiction, “Ode to Online Dating”).
Fourteen Honorable Mention awards in the Art category are
awarded to seniors Maria DiLallo (painting, “Thirsty for Hope”), Audrey
Goebel (painting, “Spring”), Allison Maust (painting, “Montana
Mountains”), Celia Reid (photography, “Abandoned Cleveland”), Amelia
Robinson (painting, “Hand”), Megan Sjoquist (painting, “Spark”), Brynna
Sooy (ceramics & glass, “Demons”; paintings, “Self Portrait” and
“Beach Day”) and Tera Vangelos (film & animation, “The Lost Soul);
and juniors Jenna Goff (painting, “This Is My Dog Isis” and comic art,
“Racket and Jimmy Comic”), Lauren McClure (ceramics & glass, “Rat
Butt”) and Brynee Ramella (photography, “Blossom”)
Nine Honorable Mention awards in the Writing category are
awarded to seniors Bennett Andrassy (poetry, “DON”), Jackie Melaragno
(poetry, “Silly Me”), Sara Sirignano (poetry, “Rapid Thoughts From A
Girl With Half Her Face Paralyzed”) and Arabelle Skelly (poetry, “World
of Error”); juniors Maggie Allan (flash fiction “Parallels”), Anne
Beckwith (poetry, “Home”); and sophomores Elizabeth Holup (poetry, “The
Spot”), Audrey Ray (short story, “Back Again”) and Elisa Renerts (flash
fiction, “Matches”).
The Bay High student award teachers of record are art
instructors Cherie Bauer, Gregory Hildebrandt and Thomas Schemrich; and
English instructors Erin Beirne, Colleen Lanning, and Kristen Srsen
Kenney.
These regional winners will have their work exhibited at the
Cleveland Institute of Art, Reinberger Gallery, January 16 through
February 2, 2018. A panel of local professional artists, art educators,
writers, and writing educators jury the exhibit and select the awarded
pieces from nearly 3,000 entries. See the CIA website at
www.cia.edu for gallery hours and more details.
Bay High Gold Key award winners pictured, left-to-right -- Front row winners for
Writing category: Carlen Goebel, Roman Vatolin, Sara Sirignano, Emma
Legeay and Elizabeth Holup; Back Row winners for Art category: Megan
Sjoquist, Maria DiLallo, Amelia Robinson and Celia Reid.
Painting shown above: "The Little Things" by Maria DiLallo.