Art Alive winners announced

BUFFALO — Albright Knox’ 20th anniversary of Art Alive had 29 works contributed from more than a dozen local schools with awards given to those deemed the best by a group of judges.

The awards are as follows:

Best Tableau from the Albright-Knox’ collection or AK public art:

• Queen of Heaven School: Franz Marc’s The Wolves (The Balkan War), 1913 (Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery)
• Gowanda High School: Casey Riordan Millard’s Shark Girl, 2013 (Public Art Collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery)

Handyman Award for best craftsmanship:

• Queen of Heaven School: Franz Marc’s The Wolves (The Balkan War), 1913 (Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery)
• Nichols School Free Draw Club: George Tooker’s The Subway, 1950 (Collection Whitney Museum of American Art)
• Madonna Coleman-Petrik: Fra Angelico’s Madonna and Child of the Grapes, 1425 (Collection Barbara Piasecka Johnson Foundation)

Off-The-Beaten Path Award for most unusual:

• Holland Elementary School: John Steuart Curry’s Tornado Over Kansas, 1929 (Collection Muskegon Museum of Art)
• Gowanda High School: Banksy’s Gas Mask Boy, 2010
• Aerin and Nicole Wagner: Amanda Browder’s Rapunzel, 2006 (Private Collection)

People’s Choice Awards:

• Holland Elementary School:John Steuart Curry’s Tornado Over Kansas, 1929 (Collection Muskegon Museum of Art)
• Gowanda High School: Sandy Skoglund’s Radioactive Cats, 1980 (Private Collection)
• Aerin and Nicole Wagner: Amanda Browder’s Rapunzel, 2006 (Private Collection)

Honorable Mentions:

• Catholic Academy of West Buffalo: Laylah Ali’s Untitled (Greenheads), 2000 (Private Collection)
• Catholic Academy of West Buffalo: Albert Roosenboom’s Her First Bouquet, Nineteenth Century (Private Collection)
• Cloverbank Elementary: Camille Pissaro’s Peasants in the Field, Éragny, 1890 (Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery)
• Gowanda High School: Banksy’s Bomb Hugger, 2003
• Gowanda High School: Banksy’s IEAK, 2009
• Gowanda High School: Banksy’s I Want Change, date unknown
• Gowanda High School: Banksy’s Think Tank, 2003 (Private Collection)
• Gowanda High School: Banksy’s Umbrella Girl, 2008
• Holland Junior/Senior High School Art Club: Charles Burchfield’s The Insect Chorus, 1917 (Collection Burchfield Penney Art Center)
• Lancaster High School Art Honor Society: Emil Nolde’s Masks, 1911 (Collection Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art)
• Lancaster High School Art Honor Society: Jean Dubuffet’s Jazz Band (Dirty Style Blues), 1944 (Collection Centre Pompidou)
• Lancaster High School Art Honor Society: Johannes Itten’s Chromatic Squares, ca. 1920 (Private Collection)
• Lancaster High School Art Honor Society: Otto Pentewa’s Katsina Figurine, 1959 (Collection Arizona State Museum)
• Julia Meldrum: Rene Magritte’s The Collective Invention, 1934 (Collection Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen)
• Orchard Park High School: Jacques-Louis David’s The Death of Marat, 1793 (Collection Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Belgium)
• Orchard Park High School: ames Tissot’s Spring, 1865 (Private Collection)
• St. Mary’s High School: Laurie Pace’s Midsummer Night Solstice, 2013 (Private Collection)
• Williamsville East High School: George Segal’s Three People on Four Benches, 1979 (Collection Metropolitan Museum of Art)
• Williamsville South High School: Edgar Degas’s Dancers in Blue, 1895 (Collection Musée d’Orsay)