Garden City High School senior Elisabeth Clarke, pictured here with art teacher Shawn Uttendorfer, Garden City High School senior Elisabeth Clarke was honored with the 2009 Scholarship Award on Sunday, March 22nd at the 5th Annual Art Supervisor's Association All-County Art Exhibition at Adelphi University's Ruth S. Harley University Center. Elisabeth received the award for her colored pencil drawing of point shoes which belonged to her mother, a former ballet dancer.

"Elisabeth is an extremely dedicated student," commented art teacher Shawn Uttendorfer. "The amount of time it takes to do one of these drawings is hours and hours. Elisabeth has a fantastic eye for color and light - she is super-talented."

"This is just one work from my Advanced Placement concentration," stated Elisabeth. "My mom was a ballet dancer and really liked the piece. She wants to hang it up so someday her grandchildren can enjoy it."

Thirty art works by Garden City Public Schools elementary, middle and high school students were included in the county-wide exhibition which included 1100 two-dimensional pieces submitted by 340 art teachers from 43 Nassau County school districts. Included from Garden City were: Dan Kammer, Olivia Ragusa and Mina Woo from the Stratford School (George Lucas, art teacher); Ryan Brown, Mallie Bruce and Nicoletta Philippides from the Stewart School (Michele White, art teacher); from Garden City Middle School - Timothy Eschmann, Kylie Mara and Alexander Ostermann (Dennis Fediw, art teacher); Anne Foxen, Victoria Rouse and Harrison Will (Lori Rousku, art teacher); Brian Defliese, Jennifer Itty and Tiffany Liang (Joseph Wilkonski, art teacher); from Garden City High School - Leah Davies, Anne-Carine Frederique and Nick Valastro (Claire Ellerman, art teacher); Eleni Demiris, Katherine Smith and Victoria Sotell (Jason Karp, art teacher); Christie Clarke, Sara Mikulas and Elizabeth Weber (Loreen McMahon, art teacher); Elisabeth Clarke, Claire Colahan and Jessica Lam (Shawn Uttendorfer, art teacher), and Kimberly Go, Chris Gold and Jenna Krug (Diane Veitch, art teacher).