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By DoNNa RhoDes
PLYMOUTH – Plymouth Regional High School’s Art instructor, Lynn Sanborn, is pleased to announce that a pho- tograph by her student, Brynn Daigle, was recently presented with a coveted Gold Key Award in a juried regional competition for the National Scholastic Art Awards program. And as if that wasn’t enough of an honor, that win moved her up to the national competition in New York City, where 310,000 submissions from across the country were exam- ined by another team of jurors to determine which were the best of the best in the country.
“It’s like the artistic students’ Super Bowl,” Brynn said.
And while she and her family did not head off to Disney World like the winners of the football Super Bowl always declare, her photo entry will soon be on ex- hibit at the Carnegie Museum in NYC with the other winners from each state.
“Brynn was competing against the best of the best,” said Sanborn.
Her submission to the com- petition was a hauntingly beau- tiful photo of her friend and
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With her Gold Key National Scholastic Art medal around her neck, PRHS student Brynn Daigle of Thornton posed beside her photo, “Treading Water,” which won her that top honor during the final judging in New York City in March. Photo by Donna Rhodes.
turned out to be quite stunning. She titled the piece, “Treading Water.”
Not only was she pleased with the results, but the national jurists were very pleased, too.
“It’s been a very memorable experience. It took my breath away to win this honor,” she said.
Sanborn said it is an experi- ence she will also remember. In approximately 20 years of teach- ing art, she said she has only had 4-5 students make it through to the national awards at the Gold Key level, and she is very proud of each of them.
She, along with Brynn and her family, were in NYC for the final jurist selections, and she was thrilled at the results.
“To hear them announce 'Plymouth Regional High School' at Carnegie Hall in New York (as one of the winners) was just amazing,” Sanborn said.
For Brynn, it was a moment that took her breath away. While she has won several awards over her years in school, she said, “None of them were ever on this level.” She is now especially eager to graduate because the very next day, she will head off to NYC with her family for the
opening of the exhibit.
Once she returns home for
the summer, she’ll be busy with her own photography business and most likely making another film or two, which she admits is her true passion.
As of mid-April, Brynn had not yet committed to a college, but with deadlines looming, her choices were narrowed down to acceptance offers from her top two choices: NYU and Hofstra. Her major will be in film with a minor in photography, and both of those schools will allow her to focus on her plans for her future.
Brynn’s national award will not only look impressive on her resume, but it also puts her in good company. Sanborn said that according to records she found, other notable National Scholastic Art and Writing award winners in the past have included notables such as Tscha- balala Self (art), Stephen King (writing), Kay Walking Stick (landscape artist), Charles White (art), Joyce Carol Oates (writing), Amanda Gorman (poetry) and Andy Warhol (art).
“What an accomplishment for Brynn and her family,” she said.
classmate, Hailly Demers. Brynn had already made a film she ti- tled “Between Dreams” (also a Regional Gold Key winner), but then decided to expand on that film with a still photo. In doing so, she said, “my backyard be- came my studio.” She was in charge of the lighting as well as the scene, and set it all up just the
way she wanted it to look.
Using logs and a black tarp, she created a shallow “pond” on her patio, which she filled with a couple of inches of water. Brynn adjusted the nighttime lighting to what she envisioned, then Hailley laid her head down
in the “pond.” The reflection of her face in the still black water
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