2025 MAEA Recognitions Exhibit

MAEA Art Educator Award
Organization or School Affiliation: Pembroke High School

Student Name: Sarah DeCoste
Grade: Grade 12
Artist Statement: This work was created during the summer before my senior year, a time of stress. I needed an escape from AP work’s demands. With no plan, I experimented with color and broke free from the restrictions of still-lifes and portraits. This painting, made with no deeper meaning in mind, remains my favorite—a reminder of rediscovering the joy of creating for myself.
Teacher: Jessica Lazarus

MAEA Art Educator Award
Organization or School Affiliation: Somerset Berkley Regional High School

Student Name: Aiden Svoboda
Grade: Grade 12
Artist Statement: I believe that freezing something in ice is conceptually containing it in time. When freezing a camera you are holding a specific moment in photography history. When the ice melts it conveys that the camera is slowly becoming less technically advanced and falling behind the capabilities of modern photography equipment. This photo questions the past, present and future of cameras and technology.
Teacher: Ginny Troutman

Davis Publications Drawing Award
Organization or School Affiliation: Oliver Ames High School

Student Name: Abigail Borden
Grade: Grade 12
Artist Statement: “Fruitful” is a colored pencil composition that pictures a halved pomegranate, exposing its seeds. I was inspired by the luminous quality of this unique fruit which is why I chose to depict it in this up-close manner. I chose to call this work “Fruitful” because the name reflects the hard work I put into this piece alongside the rewarding feeling of creating a composition I am proud of.
Teacher: Kristyn Shea

Davis Publications Painting Award
Organization or School Affiliation: Silver Lake Regional High School

Student Name: Lillian Rankin
Grade: Grade 12
Artist Statement: This piece aims to portray the passage of time through life by showing the fast change from childhood to teenage years. I used a lenticular design in order to combine two self portraits. This design allows the image to change as you walk by, allowing for different views of each portrait. The physical transition that is seen with this piece serves as a reminder to appreciate every moment of life.
Teacher: Hannah Close

Davis Publications Mixed Media Award
Organization or School Affiliation: Medfield High School

Student Name: Charlotte Mahoney
Grade: Grade 10
Artist Statement: This piece represents the four seasons through color, negative shapes, & brushstrokes. Each layer is stacked to allow the light of the sun to be seen through the subsequent layers. The darkest layer acts as the base - depicting winter, followed by the three other ascending seasons. I cut risers at differing incremental heights to create a greater sense of depth in the relief.
Teacher: meg drew

Davis Publications Photography Award
Organization or School Affiliation: Somerset Berkley Regional High School

Student Name: Rex Lema
Grade: Grade 12
Artist Statement: How can I show history and time through architecture? I photographed a building whose exterior shows columns and stone construction created years ago. I transfered the photo to wood to enhance texture and suggest a memory of another time period. The small size of the work suggests a postcard documenting a place from the past.
Teacher: Ginny Troutman

Davis Publications Digital/Graphic Design Award
Organization or School Affiliation: Canton High School

Student Name: Dianna Peters
Grade: Grade 12
Artist Statement: With this piece, I wanted to emulate a disorienting feeling of dream sequences in cinematography. To recreate this disorienting perspective, I split the colors into three different layers and physically separated them. From the front, you can see the composite image. This piece looks different based on the angle of the viewer, but this does not change the truth of the original image.
Teacher: Hannah Cascio

Davis Publications Ceramics Award
Organization or School Affiliation: Methuen High School

Student Name: Addison Seccareccio
Grade: Grade 12
Artist Statement: I am making a lot of sea-themed art this year and I decided to add a mug/cup to the collection. I threw the cup base on the wheel and hand built the handle. I scored and slipped each suction cup on the handle, which was very tedious. In the end decided to add the surprise of a koi fish inside the mug. I decided to go for indigo float glaze to capture the ocean-like vibe.
Teacher: Rebecca Martell

Davis Publications Sculpture Award
Organization or School Affiliation: Somerville High School

Student Name: Tad MacDonald
Grade: Grade 11
Artist Statement: The piece consists of a ceramic underglaze-painted clock face and mahogany case with jatoba dovetail joints. The face is centered around the three hare motif, a trio of conjoined hares chasing each other in an endless cycle, found in Buddhism, Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. I used it to show the passing and cycle of time on a clock as the hares run.
Teacher: Taylor Byrne

Davis Publications Jewelry Award
Organization or School Affiliation: Wayland High School

Student Name: Naomi Rice
Grade: Grade 12
Artist Statement: My piece was inspired by the trip I went on this summer to Glacier National Park. While making it, I was learning new techniques like how to rivet. I used a patina and texture on the water because I wanted to add liveliness and color. I chose to make it in a circular frame because it reminded me of looking out a circular window on a boat and I like that feeling.
Teacher: Amy O'Connell

Davis Publications Fashion Award
Organization or School Affiliation: Acton Boxborough Regional High School

Student Name: Yerim Jo
Grade: Grade 12
Artist Statement: This clothing includes a block print of a fairy (선녀), a beautiful woman living in the sky from East Asian mythology. I put a lot of effort into the details and color selection to create a mysterious and elegant atmosphere just like the one in the mythology. By printing it on the clothing, I tried to express the feeling of something that seemed close but could not be reached.
Teacher: Eliza Greene

Davis Publications Printmaking Award
Organization or School Affiliation: Saint Paul Jr/Sr High School

Student Name: Bridget Alfonso
Grade: Grade 10
Artist Statement: This piece is a collagraph print made up of cut and indented foam that I placed onto a plastic plate in the shape of a jellyfish. The media that I used for this project is acrylic paint, metallic gold paint, and styrofoam. When making this painting I painted the background using cooler colors and then printed the jellyfish design onto my mixed media paper using white paint with gold, blue and pink
Teacher: Tr. Prouty

Organization or School Affiliation: Falmouth High School

Student Name: Lukas Bushy
Grade: Grade 10
Artist Statement: My Ceramics teacher brought in a taxidermy Armadillo to class and I was immediately inspired by the detail and unique characteristics of the animal. I wanted to recreate it and made sure to put a lot of attention into the texture of the animal and had so much fun being able to see the armadillo come to life.
Teacher: Corine Adams

Organization or School Affiliation: Falmouth High School

Student Name: Isabella Hanlon
Grade: Grade 12
Artist Statement: For this project, I made two bowls, roughly the same height and width, on the wheel. After rounding and attaching them I added a foot ring and a bottle neck. I really enjoyed sculpting the battle between a crab and an octopus.
Teacher: Corine Adams

Organization or School Affiliation: Falmouth High School

Student Name: Hailey Ferreira
Grade: Grade 12
Artist Statement: I made this piece, because I grew up on Cape Cod and love the ocean. The tails represent a parent and a child. I used a raku firing for the colors and was very lucky to get so many colors. I called this The Next Generation because it represents how the younger generation is rising up and continuing the whales' majestic legacy.
Teacher: Corine Adams

Organization or School Affiliation: Falmouth High School

Student Name: Maisie Chase
Grade: Grade 11
Artist Statement: I was inspired by the form and texture of a lotus flower seedpod. After many attempts to carve out the seed pods, I found that I was most successful rolling out a slab of clay and forming it into a cone. I used a needle tool to create the leaf-like texture on the outside of my piece. When glazing the piece, I chose natural brown and green colors to replicate the colors of the lotus seed pod.
Teacher: Corine Adams

Organization or School Affiliation: Falmouth High School

Student Name: Dorothy Linton
Grade: Grade 10
Artist Statement: This multimedia art piece depicts a tree observed at Nobska Point. The tree trunk, made with strips of mat board, embodies the texture of the bark and is stained with watercolors to add further depth. Plaster covered with fabric and sand adds dimension to the scene, while the light blue tissue sky and vibrant leaves in green and purple scraps of acrylic paint create a cheerful mood.
Teacher: Jane Fay Baker

Organization or School Affiliation: Falmouth High School

Student Name: Isabel Pardee
Grade: Grade 12
Artist Statement: A zoologist exhibited a ton of critters in the cafeteria for Art 3 Honors students to be sketched and photographed; teaching us as she went. I sketched a baby alligator and even pet it, and it was astonishing enough that I decided to draw an accurately-sized portrait of it in ballpoint pen and Sharpie, shading the rest of the space in watercolor and ink and completing it that summer.
Teacher: Jane Fay Baker

Organization or School Affiliation: Falmouth High School

Student Name: Heather Crowell
Grade: Grade 9
Artist Statement: This is my childhood horse, Jack. I had many of my ‘firsts’ on him, my first show, first blue ribbon, and many more. He recently passed away, and I wanted to paint the memory of someone who carried me through my childhood ups and downs. But most of all, I wanted to paint the image of my one and only heart horse, Jack.
Teacher: Jane Fay Baker

Organization or School Affiliation: Dennis Yarmouth Regional High

Student Name: Maeve Dolan
Grade: Grade 12
Artist Statement: This piece is created from T3 stoneware clay. The clay sculpture of an African Grey Parrot is perched on a piece of distressed wood. The parrot is stabilized by a cut-out slit in the top of the wood wide enough to slide the base of the parrot on. It was created with altered slabs of clay and pinch pots. The glazes are cone 6 oxidation fired.
Teacher: Craig Brodt