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Shaker Students Earn Top Honors in Congressional
Arts Competition May 7, 2004 - Shaker Heights High School senior Selena Simmons-Duffin was named this year's grand prizewinner of the Congressional Arts Competition for the 11th District of Ohio. Selena's winning entry, entitled “Night Lamp,” won her a scholarship to the Savannah College of Art and Design and earned her an invitation to attend the national awards ceremony in Washington, D.C. The entry was also awarded first place in the competition's Drawing category. Two works created by Jessamyn Davis , “Dying Romanticism” and “Apples—Noon and Dark,” earned first and third place in the Painting category. Joshua Kaplan's painting “Light in Shadow” was awarded second place in the same category. Jessamyn and Joshua are also seniors at the High School. Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones honored the competition's winners at a ceremony held on May 1 at the Martin Luther King Library. Winners will also have their artwork displayed in the U.S. Capitol. The Congressional Arts Competition provides a forum for demonstrating the importance that the arts play in American society and gives students in grades 9 through 12 an opportunity to display their artistic skills. In addition to being this year's grand prizewinner of the Congressional Arts Competition, two of Selena's works are included in the 34th Ohio Governor's Youth Art Exhibition, on display in Columbus from April 18 through May 20. Over 12,000 art entries were submitted by 9th through 12th grade students throughout Ohio; 300 were chosen for the exhibit. A student in Daniel Whitely's AP Art Portfolio class, Selena submitted a larger-than-life self-portrait in oil, entitled “Obits,” as well as a sculpture parody of “American Gothic” that was made of car steering columns. She plans to attend Stanford University next year.
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