Contact: Sharon McAllister, Festival Director
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email: info@artfestfortmyers.com
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ArtFest Fort Myers Presents $6,500 in Cash Awards to Lee County High School Students.
ArtFest Fort Myers presented $6,500 in awards to Lee County high school students at the Art Under 20 Award Reception on February 24th. These extremely talented student artists won the top awards in “Art Under 20”, the high school fine art competition, which took place at ArtFest Fort Myers on February 5th & 6th.
At this season’s Art Under 20, three hundred and ten local high school students, from 14 Lee County high schools, entered artwork in the competition. The student art was exhibited at the fine art festival and was previewed by thousands of festival patrons. Art Under 20 judges, Claudia Goode and David Acevedo had the difficult task of selecting the winners from among these talented students.
Awards were given in the categories of Drawing, Photography, Painting, 3-Dimensional and Mixed Media. The cash award levels were $900 for Best of Show, $400 for First Place, $200 for Second Place, $100 for Third Place and $50 for Honorable Mention. Festival attendees voted for the People’s Choice winner, resulting in a $300 cash award. Through the generosity of the Fewster family, two additional awards were added to the competition this season: the Fewster Family Scholarship Award and the McBLT Ventures Art Teacher Award.
Art Under 20 Award Winners, School
BEST OF SHOW: Chloe Lewis, Cypress Lake High
PHOTOGRAPHY
1st: Jace Eddy, Canterbury
2nd: Zachary Philippon, North Fort Myers High
3rd: Rochelle Bovill, Riverdale High
PAINTING
1st: Kelsey Younger, Florida Virtual School
2nd: Kelly Bermudez, Lehigh High
3rd: Anna Craig, Cypress Lake High
DRAWING
1st: Krystal Smith, Mariner High
2nd: Leva Girdvainyte, Cape Coral High
3rd: Alisa Scribner, Mariner High
3-DIMENSIONAL
1st: Chloe Stairs, Lehigh High
2nd: Michael Enke, Jr., Island Coast High
3rd: Savannah Bonnette, Canterbury
MIXED MEDIA
1st: Andie Kunkel, Cypress Lake High
2nd: Jordan Carroll, Canterbury
3rd: Summer Slafer, Cape Coral High
PEOPLE’S CHOICE: Taylor Roberts, Estero High
FEWSTER FAMILY SCHOLARSHIP AWARD: Anna McClure, Mariner High
McBLT VENTURES ART TEACHER AWARD: Stephan Frank, Mariner High
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
1. Paula Aguilar, Riverdale High
2. Amy Arnold, North Fort Myers High
3. Melinda Krichbaum, North Fort Myers High
4. Daniela Martinez, North Fort Myers High
5. Autumn Baublis, Mariner High
6. Shannon Sass, Mariner High
7. Amanda Willis, North Fort Myers High
8. Esteban Artero, Fort Myers High
9. Sarah Peer, Mariner High
10. Emily Varner, Mariner High
11. Shion Kremer, Fort Myers High
12. Veronica Sereda, North Fort Myers High
13. Amber Dunlap, Lehigh High
14. Taylor Roberts, Estero High
15. Killian Muollo, Cape Coral High
16. Sammi Merritt, Cape Coral High
17. Justin Devine, Cypress Lake High
18. Santiago Yori, Cape Coral High
19. Brent Buell, Riverdale High
20. Suzie Shin, Canterbury
21. Christian Allison, Fort Myers High
22. Reshmie Punwasi, Fort Myers High
23. Sabrina Alonso, Riverdale High
24. Mason Bertsch, Riverdale High
25. Christina Hall, Estero High
26. Cathy Doan, Gateway Charter
