Art students from grades 9 to 12 across Massachusetts submitted their work to the Massachusetts Amazing Emerging Artists Recognitions Exhibit (MAEA) in hopes of being honored. If their work was chosen, it will be included in the MAEA exhibit at the Boston Transportation Building. This year, five talented WHS artists were featured in the MAEA exhibit, and two of those students were awarded for their pieces. Because of COVID-19, the exhibit is not taking place at the Boston Transportation Building this year, but being held virtually at this link.

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Credit: Courtesy of Bec Patsenker

Senior Bec Patsenker won the Virginia M. Dani Adams Memorial Award for their piece entitled "Self-Portrait II." "The most direct way I can express my internal landscape is through self-portraits," Patsenker said. "When I make a choice in a self-portrait, it instantly becomes me. The fraying of canvas thread, stiffness of wood, weakness of yarn and decaying of cardboard becomes my own fraying, coldness, weakness and decay. There is no barrier between my work and myself."