Congresswoman Tenney Highlights Congressional Art Competition Winners in Speech on House Floor

Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Claudia Tenney (NY-22) last week highlighted the participants and winners of the New York 22nd Congressional District’s 2022 Congressional Art Competition in a speech on the Floor of the House of Representatives.

In her speech, Tenney spoke about the success of the community art shows, where more than 100 individuals joined to view artwork and vote on their favorite pieces. Congresswoman Tenney also recognized the winners of the competition and underscored the competitiveness of this year’s contest, with the judge’s agreeing it was one of the best years yet.

The full video of Tenney’s remarks is available here.

Thank you, Mister Speaker.

I rise today to recognize the participants of this year’s Congressional Art Competition in New York’s 22^nd District.

Each year, dozens of high school students from across the 22^nd district submit pieces of art that they have spent countless hours on and put tremendous effort into perfecting. Last year’s winner, Gavin Schiavi, from New Hartford, submitted a piece done completely with colored pencil, and our judges were thoroughly impressed with the attention to detail and the amazing work done by Gavin.

This year we made a few additions to the competition. During the last week of April, we held two community art shows, where the students’ artwork was on display for the public. Over 100 people attended these viewings and voted on two pieces as their favorite, those from Gianna Yacobucci of New Hartford and Salwa Nadeem of Vestal.

Following these events, our independent judges voted on the winners. The first-place winner was Nadja Wall with her painting “The Aquarium.” In second was Anita Grant from New Hartford, third Olivia Muse from Vestal and fourth Emily Carlson from Holland Patent. Our judges all agreed that this was one of the best years we have seen.

I’d like to thank all of the students for their work, their parents and teachers for their support, and our fantastic judges for helping to facilitate the competition. I am looking forward to seeing Nadja’s work hang in the halls of Congress for the next year!

Thank you, I yield back.

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