AMHERST, N.Y. – Daemen College recently presented top honors and scholarships to winners of the 50^th annual All High Exhibition, which featured some of the finest artwork by high school students from throughout the Buffalo Niagara region.

This year’s winners of $5,000 Visual Arts Scholarships, which are awarded by the Daemen Visual and Performing Arts Department, are Taylor Hunstberger from Pioneer High School and Maiya Kettlehone from Honeoye Falls-Lima High School. Selection for the renewable scholarship is based on academic achievement and the strength of a student’s portfolio that is formally evaluated by faculty on the department’s Portfolio Day.

Top honors for the 2019 All High Exhibition were presented to:

• Best in Show – Lily Redeye, Gowanda High School.
• Best Drawing – Alex Christensen, Batavia High School.
• Best Illustration – Samuel Fesmire, North Tonawanda High School, and Jack Wright, Amherst High School.
• Best Mix Media – Isabele Kozak, Pioneer High School.
• Best Painting – Amanda Giglia, Clarence High School.
• Best Photo – James Murray, The Gow School.
• Best Print – Caitlyn Wilson, Buffalo Academy of Visual and Performing Arts.
• Best Three-Dimensional – Alicia Pszczola, Gowanda High School.
• Buffalo Society of Artists Award – Heather Boehnke, Sweet Home High School.

Honorable mentions were awarded to:

• Emma Baker–Terhaar – Amherst High School.
• Kathryn Bean – Nichols School.
• Hayli Green – Pioneer High School.
• Julianna Grudzien – Gowanda High School.
• Eileena Kent – Lewiston-Porter High School.
• Sam Kirsch – Pioneer High School.
• Olivia Lucinski – Clarence High School.
• Nathaniel Reilly – Niagara Falls High School.
• Natalie Tombak – Sweet Home High School.