2025 MAEA Recognitions Exhibit

Organization or School Affiliation: Norwood High School

Student Name: Jossie Cardoza Posada
Grade: Grade 12
Artist Statement: This is a piece of artivism I worked on in class; it's theme is social media and how its connected with mental health.
Teacher: Saquora Lowe-McLaurin

Organization or School Affiliation: Norwood High School

Student Name: Ashley Salazar
Grade: Grade 10
Artist Statement: It is a representation of people who suffer and live daily disturbed by things from their past or present, I wanted to make this art in order to reach many people and see what is not seen at first sight and thus they can know and understand more about phobias and the feeling of having them.
Teacher: Saquora Lowe-McLaurin

Organization or School Affiliation: Methuen High School

Student Name: Hudson McCaffery
Grade: Grade 11
Artist Statement: In my pottery, I celebrate the chaos and spontaneity of wheel throwing, allowing the clay to take on a life of its own. Each piece is shaped by instinct, embracing the unpredictable forces of the wheel.
Teacher: Rebecca Martell

Organization or School Affiliation: Methuen High School

Student Name: Breena Lawrence
Grade: Grade 12
Artist Statement: Each piece is an opportunity to experiment with new shapes and surface designs, pushing my skills further. The process allows for both precision and spontaneity, where the clay often surprises me in the best ways. Through my work, I aim to combine functionality with creativity, showcasing the beauty of pottery as an art form.
Teacher: Rebecca Martell

Organization or School Affiliation: Methuen High School

Student Name: Ariana Ulloa
Grade: Grade 11
Artist Statement: The two sharks on this mug have found themselves to be too different to be able to swim together. The two sharks are swimming away from each other while still being tied together. This represents people trying to get away from each other while still having a strong emotional connection that is hard to let go of. The ripples represent how people leave traces of themselves in others lives.
Teacher: Rebecca Martell

Organization or School Affiliation: Norwood High School

Student Name: Bridget Connelly
Grade: Grade 12
Artist Statement: The art piece shows my childhood and the innocence that was ripped from me with age and exposure. Through bullying and access to social media, I've matured very fast. The flowers portray the freedom of children and their lack of knowledge for the unknown. While the girl represents me slowly leaving the safety of the flowers and pulling back from smelling them to enter maturity.
Teacher: Laurie Mead McGrory

Organization or School Affiliation: Norwood High School

Student Name: Anna Button
Grade: Grade 12
Artist Statement: This piece portray my family's love for board games. The four chess pieces represent each member of my family. King: my dad, Queen: my mom, Knight: my brother, and Bishop: me. We are all very competitive and chess is one game we love to challenge each other too. Board games are important to our family because it is one of the only times where we are all together.
Teacher: Laurie Mead McGrory

Organization or School Affiliation: Norwood High School

Student Name: Jolene Lamberti
Grade: Grade 9
Artist Statement: This drawing was created from a picture of my grandma's hydrangeas. I grew up going to her house so I always got to see them, as hydrangeas are what she plants at every house she's lived in. A few years ago she sold that house. She has always been there to support me. I thought this would be a good way to pay tribute to her support and to celebrate the memories we've created.
Teacher: Laurie Mead McGrory

Organization or School Affiliation: Norwood High School

Student Name: Rowan Gloddy
Grade: Grade 9
Artist Statement: The purpose of this piece is to illustrate wars harmful and an unnecessarily violent resolve to disputes. I made the background have very dark colors with smoke and falling buildings to show wars harm on the land of the people and the foreground to show that this can lead to the harm of both soldiers and victims of war.
Teacher: Laurie Mead McGrory

Organization or School Affiliation: Norwood Public Schools

Student Name: Chris Mitros
Grade: Grade 10
Artist Statement: This is about addiction, the effects it has on people and their bodies. The bloody, fleshy tones and body parts on the tea cup show how addiction grasps its host keeping them in a chokehold. The intestines saucer looks dirty and abused, showing the effects of what addictions do to one's physical and psychological state. The broken bloody bottle shows how it feels to break free of an addiction.
Teacher: Elizabeth Mullaney

Organization or School Affiliation: Norwood Public Schools

Student Name: Taisha Antoine
Grade: Grade 11
Artist Statement: Éveil means awakening in French, my art piece is a parallel between death and living inspired by a true crime. I made this painting of a woman with a skeleton half alive to depict the woman. The handprints represent the hands that violated her body and the flowers represent innocence. This art piece I find to be visually strong and leave people to wonder what is going on.
Teacher: Elizabeth Mullaney

Organization or School Affiliation: Norwood Public Schools

Student Name: Jose Zerpa
Grade: Grade 11
Artist Statement: A samurai Helmet made out of tooling foil and recovered with construction paper, molded and wrapped around a foam base. made with the purpose of represent the very strong and clean mindset that the samurais had at the time period, showing the very strong sense of will and power over yourself.
Teacher: Elizabeth Mullaney

Organization or School Affiliation: Norwood Public Schools

Student Name: Tessa Lahaise
Grade: Grade 12
Artist Statement: In order to create a space that resembled a city in Greece, I used recycled food boxes and foam core to create a basic structure. Then I covered the base with joint compound and layered it into a smooth texture. After, I added details and designs to create a large Greek house.
Teacher: Elizabeth Mullaney

Organization or School Affiliation: Canton High School

Student Name: Caitlin Tureski
Grade: Grade 11
Artist Statement: This picture shows a volleyball player’s determination. Her expression shows how intensely focused she is during the game. This image is part of an ongoing body of my work documenting sports at Canton High School. Taking so many pictures of sports this season has taught me that in order to capture moments like this I have to know the game and pay close attention to what is happening every moment.
Teacher: Patricia Palmer

Organization or School Affiliation: Canton High School

Student Name: Gavin Pushard
Grade: Grade 10
Artist Statement: This work was inspired by experimenting with product photography. To create this image I used things like fruit and flowers to create a sense of what the product smells like. I want people to get a happy summer vibe from this photo.
Teacher: Patricia Palmer

Organization or School Affiliation: Canton High School

Student Name: Kaitlyn Sullivan
Grade: Grade 9
Artist Statement: This work was inspired by seeing pictures taken from different camera angles to create the illusion of foreshortening. To create this photo I used f/4.5 to make sure that the shoe was blurry and my subject was in focus. It takes a lot of hard work to take these kinds of photos. You need the right angle and the right amount of focus.
Teacher: Patricia Palmer

Organization or School Affiliation: Canton High School

Student Name: Tyler Benson
Grade: Grade 12
Artist Statement: To create this image I set up my background, camera, and subject. I took the photo with a slow shutter speed which gave me time to draw around the car with a flashlight. I hope that when people view this image they will notice the streak of light on the left side, the blurriness of the back wing, and the sparkles all over the ground that really add to the luxury of the Porsche 911 GT3RS.
Teacher: Patricia Palmer

Organization or School Affiliation: Canton High School

Student Name: Michaela Singleton
Grade: Grade 9
Artist Statement: The idea for this image came to me when we were learning about light painting. I liked the thought of using multiple lights instead of just one. I wanted my photo to have a lot of feeling and emotion in it so I posed my subject as sad and lonely to tie in with the symbolism of the color blue. This gives the effect of a sad girl drowning in a sea of emotion; a light storm.
Teacher: Patricia Palmer

Organization or School Affiliation: Saint Paul Jr/Sr High School

Student Name: Siena Sandini
Grade: Grade 11
Artist Statement: This piece was a mixed media hand study using watercolor, colored pencil, and charcoal. I chose to use a “fluid” motion with the background which connected to the hand placement and energy source in the center. I also made connections between the light values in the background and hands.  This piece was inspired by the Marvel series “Loki” and combined themes from another series “Wanda-Vision”. 
Teacher: Tr. Prouty

Organization or School Affiliation: Saint Paul Jr/Sr High School

Student Name: Izzy Caprioli
Grade: Grade 12
Artist Statement: This piece is charcoal and white charcoal on grey toned paper. It is an exploration of texture and value through a portrait of my Boston terrier.
Teacher: Tr. Prouty