Each year, high school students across the country enter their state's congressional art show. Then 50 pieces of high school art are selected for an exhibition in Washington D.C. This tradition was started by the former Vermont senator Jim Jeffords. This was the first year that I have entered Cabot High School students. Almost 200 artworks from 50+ Vermont high schools were on display. Our small school had high quality pieces that not only fit in but stood out among the rest of the artworks on display. Of those works, seven of them received special awards. Cabot's Evlyn Hislop was awarded a "Judges Choice" award. We travelled to Montpelier for the award show and the judge who selected her work commented on Evlyn's skill in creating a detailed pen and ink portrait and how her subtle use of color and text in her collaged background supported her content.
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