Staples Junior Wins Arts Center Competition

Staples High School junior Audrey Seo has been selected as the winner of the first Tracy Sugarman Award to a promising young local artist at the Westport Arts Center. Her work and others submitted are on display in the Center’s Project Space. Jurors were Helen Klisser During, the Center’s artistic director, and Westport artist Leonard Everett Fisher, whose works are featured in a new exhibit in the main exhibit hall. Both exhibits open tonight with a 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. reception. The Tracy Sugarman Award is sponsored by Westporter Alan H. Nevas, retired senior U.S. District Court judge, and Janet Nevas in honor of the Westport artist who died in January 2013 at age 91. Other high school artists honored include Katie Craymer, Angela Yu, Josephine Freeman, Emma Fasciolo, Olivia Porretta, Keanan Pucci, Devin Pucci, Lizzy Feeley, Jennifer Martin, Eliana Avonson, Grace Foley, Alexandra McMahon and Sophia Green. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Photo by Marina White