FLORIDA SIXTH DISTRICT 2024 CONGRESSIONAL ART COMPETITION WINNERS
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1st Place Winner Photography: “Freckled Eye”
Ja’Bari Grimes, 12th Grade, Flagler Palm Coast High School
Teacher: Angela Biggs
Description: A young girl’s eyes with freckles
Represents Florida's Sixth District in Washington, D.C. as the overall 1st place winner.
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1st Place Winner Drawing: “A Cry of Despair”
Addyson Weaver, 10th Grade, T. Dewitt Taylor High School
Teacher: Jillian Larriviere
Description: Upon creating “A Cry of Despair,” I found the graphite should give the audience a feeling of despondency, along with a loss of desire. Over 100 Tigers annually feel desolate, right before they are illegally sold or killed, people put these magnificent creatures in compact enclosures. If the audience is to take one thing from the artwork it’s that you must fight for a voice that cannot be heard.
To be Hung in Rep. Waltz's Washington, D.C. office for one year as the overall 2nd place winner.
1st Place Winner Mixed Media: “El Bosque Misterioso”
Natalia Celallos Meneses, 10th Grade, North Marion High School
Teacher: Gloria Sed
Description: A surrealistic landscape forest scene
To be hung in Rep. Waltz's Ocala, office for one year as the overall 3rd place winner.
1st Place Winner Painting: “Oblivion”
Devon Hoffman, 11th Grade, Matanzas High School
Teacher: Ms. Taylor-Vitkus
Description: Acrylic paint on canvas. The piece focuses on contrast. The main elements are black and white. The subject is three band members. There is also dry brushing to make the painting look distressed. To be hung in Rep. Walt’s Palm Coast office for one year as the overall honorable mention.
1st Place Winner Computer Generated: “Grief in the Garden”
Amber Schactman, 12 Grade, North Marion High School
Art Teacher: Gloria Sed
Title: Grief in the Garden
Description: A Woman with long pink and blue hair wears black and carries a bouquet. A Vine wraps around her leg as clouds behind her form to make a halo and angel wing. The woman's face cannot be made out as it's covered by her hair, and the wind blowing it in her face.
SECOND PLACE WINNERS BY MEDIUM
2nd Place Photography: “Cloudy Skys”
Student: Liliana Delbuono, 10th grade
School: Flagler Palm Coast High School, Teacher: Angela Briggs
2nd Place Drawing: “Deadlines”
Student: Emelia Delaney, 12th grade
School: Crescent City High School, Teacher: Erin Delaney
2nd Place Painting watercolor “FL beach with FL map cut out.”
Student: Sara Lopez, 12th grade
School: Crescent City High School, Teacher: Erin Delaney
2nd place Mixed Media “It's Called a Heart”
Student: Isabella Butler,12th grade
School: Matanzas High School, Teacher: Amy Taylor-Katrina Vitkus
THIRD PLACE WINNERS BY MEDIUM
3rd Place Photography "Liquified lumber"
Student: Alexis Boyle, 11th grade
School: Flagler Palm Coast High School, Teacher: Angela Briggs
3rd place Painting “Ormond Beach, FL A1A”
Student: Mithila Paul, 11th grade
School: Crescent City High School, Art Teacher: Erin Delaney
3rd place Drawing “Florida Iguana”
Student: Leah Castro Mendoza, 12 grade
School: Crescent City High School, Art Teacher: Erin Delaney
Honorable Mention-Photography “Life of a Bug”
Student: Moses Silveria Jr, 11th grade
School: Flagler Palm Coast High School, Art Teacher: Angela Briggs
Thank you to the local artist who helped our office pick the winners!
Ed Siarkowicz, Kenneth Fasnacht, Diana Minotti, and Lisa Fisher
