Shaker Students are Winners in Cleveland Clinic Art Show
The Cleveland Clinic has honored nine Shaker Heights High School students for artwork they created based on scientific research as part of the 2016-2017 eXpressions Art Program. Shaker has the most winners among all participating schools. About 1,500 art, language, and math projects from 51 schools were submitted last month as a part of the eXpressions competition.
In addition to receiving blue, red, and white ribbons and monetary awards, the students' designs will be displayed in the 2017 eXpressions™ Art, Language, and Math eXhibition at the Global Center for Health Innovation. The opening, including a formal program and reception, will be held on Thursday, February 9, 2017.
Shaker's winners are:
Maeve Billinga, Red Ribbon, Tangled Cells
Olivia Forsyth, Blue Ribbon, Compliance
Natalia Gardner, Honorable Mention, Effect of Concussions on the Brain
Tino Ponce de Leon, White Ribbon, Restorations
Ben Schelling, Blue Ribbon, Unintentional Distribution
Ethan Vodrey, Blue Ribbon, Rejection
Tashauna Wright, Red Ribbon, Organs
Courtney Smith, Honorable Mention, Freedom
Jaliyah Whitmore, Honorable Mention, Safest Hands
A panel of art educators, medical researchers and illustrators, photographers, and media and public health professionals used four criteria to evaluate each art submission: interpretation, presentation, creativity, and initiative.
The eXpressions Art Program is an educational program that engages high school students in the world of scientific research through the visual arts. Through project-based, peer-to-peer learning, students produce artistic representations of research conducted by Cleveland Clinic summer interns. Karen DeMauro, Christina Stouffer and Kathleen Fleming are the students' art teachers.