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Boston Globe Scholastic Art Awards

Posted by on February 14, 2010 Comments Off on Boston Globe Scholastic Art Awards


Today we went to the ceremony down at John Hancock hall in Boston for Zach winning a silver key for a jewelry piece in the Boston Globe Scholastic Art Awards, a regional competition. Apparently, the awards were established in 1923 and involve over 6000 students and over 10,000 pieces of art. Each student had to go up on stage and say something like, “Hi, I’m Zach Reckling and I won a silver key for a jewelry piece. I go to Brookline High School.” It was kind of like an affirmation of the work they do.

Teacher’s could submit up to 15 pieces from each school, so he actually had to get by that criteria first. Zach got a silver key for this piece of jewelry he made at school. It’s on display at the Transportation Building in downtown Boston. We went over there to check it out, which is where I got cooperation for the above picture.

He also got an honorable mention for a print, pictured below.

And here he is on stage, following “in the footsteps of the masters”. Afterwards we walked over to see the exhibit at the transportation building, then back over to Cheesecake Factory to stuff ourselves.

Congrats to ZR! – Chris/Dad

Zach’s Ceramics

Posted by on April 19, 2009 Comments Off on Zach’s Ceramics

Zachary is quite interested in ceramics – in fact, so interested that we are checking out art schools! Here are some pics of some of his work. He’s done a whole series with hands in different poses. Some of them even have faces on their palms (not my fault he has these visions).

Here are a few pictures from a recent show at the high school. Not surprisingly, I could not get him to pose with the work. I also wish I’d taken a photo of what he wrote, since we’ll probably never see it again – but it was a thoughtful reflection about what he was trying to accomplish with the art.

Chris