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News Center
| May 7, 2008 | Cathy Bassett
Communications Director
410-749-3184
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WASHINGTON -- Art students and their families from across the 1st District of Maryland came to Washington recently for Congressman Wayne T. Gilchrest's annual Arts Caucus competition where the winner gets to have his or her artwork displayed in the U.S. Capitol for a year.
The overall winner this year was Michelle McGaughey, a senior at Broadneck Senior High School in Anne Arundel County. Her drawing, entitled "Sports", won the Best in Show award and she will be invited back to Washington to celebrate at a reception honoring the winners from across the country. Her artwork will also hang in a corridor along with other winners from each Congressional district.
"Her artwork takes me back to my youth," Gilchrest said, of her drawing of various athletic equipment and balls spilling out of a closet door. "She has perfectly depicted what the hall closet looked like at our house, growing up with six boys."
Awards were presented in seven categories: painting, drawing, collage, print, mixed media, computer generated art, and photography and winners came from all across the district from various high schools.
At a reception in the Rayburn House Office Building, Gilchrest thanked the students, their art teachers, and the parents for coming to the reception, and encouraged the students to continue to express themselves through their artistic abilities. He and his staff then gave the group a guided tour of the Capitol where they were able to see the artwork from last year 's competition, as well as sit in the balcony to watch the House of Representatives in session.
This year's overall winner is also eligible for a scholarship to the Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia.
Winners this year included:
Breon Ayers, 10th grade at Snow Hill High School, Honorable Mention for his painting "Rotating Colors";
Coral Brecheen, 11th grade at North Caroline High School, 3rd Place for painting "Mountain Sunset";
Katherine Hunt, 10th grade at Notre Dame Prep, 2nd Place for her painting "Starving Artist";
Holly Marie Pierson, 12th grade at Worcester Prep, 1st Place for her painting "REVEALation";
Sierra Turner, 11th grade at North Caroline High School, Honorable Mention for her drawing called "Friends";
Cody Wodkins, 11th grade at Snow Hill High School, 3rd Place for drawing "My Shephard";
William Buck Insley, 12th grade at Cambridge South Dorchester High School, 2nd Place for his drawing "Never Landing";
Woody Sheperd Harrington, 12th grade at Worcester Prep, 1st Place for his drawing "Struggle" and 2nd place in computer generated category for his work "Untitled";
Abby Hopper, 12th grade at Broadneck Senior High School, 1st Place in the collage category for her work called "Follow My Lead";
Zack Baldwin, 12th grade at North Caroline High School, 1st Place for his computer generated art called "Political Dreams";
Amy Patrick, 11th grade at Snow Hill High School, 1st Place for her print "The Bird is Hungry";
Andy Flexner, 11th grade at Parkside High School, Honorable Mention for mixed media "Music Abuse";
Lauren Meeks, 12th grade at James M. Bennett High School, 3rd Place for mixed media "Self Expression";
Meen Choi, 12th grade at Parkside High School, 2nd Place for mixed media "Scarcity of Idea";
Katie Lim, 12th grade at Broadneck Senior High School, 1st Place for mixed media "Getting Ready for School";
Lauren Price, 10th grade at Worcester Prep, 3rd Place for photography "Pinhole photograph Girl crossing Footbridge";
Rachel Davidson, 12th grade at Snow Hill High School, 2nd Place for photography for her work "Blown Fuse" ;
M. Logan Battista, 10th grade at Notre Dame Prep, 1st Place for photography for her work, "Agony of De' Feet". 
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