Date Posted: 11/9/2009 High School Women Artists Win Awards at Exhibit On November 8, 2009, three high school women artists were recognized for their outstanding work at the closing reception of the CNR 16th Annual High School Women Artists Exhibition. Here the winning students pose with Dr. Richard Thompson, Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences, (l.) The winning students are (l.-r.) Elizabeth Renck, a senior at Convent of the Sacred Heart (Greenwich, CT); Jisel Nunez, a senior at Lincoln High School (Yonkers, NY); and Amber Gullas, a senior at New Rochelle High School. In presenting the awards to the students, Dean Thompson quoted the American novelist, Katherine Anne Porter, who wrote, "Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and to put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning." This, Dean Thompson told the young artists, "you have done well, and for that you deserve our gratitude."  This year a record 85 high school women from 25 different high schools submitted art work to the competiton. The show included work in acrylic paint, photography, charcoal, pencil, clay, mixed media, and oil. The judges for the exhibition were Jo-Ann Brody, sculptor and artist resident teacher in schools throughout New York City and Westchester County, and Marcy Freedman, multimedia artist, lecturer, and art historian. Return to news summary