Smartboard May 13, 2024

May 12—SFCC announces award, scholarship winners

Santa Fe Community College on May 3 celebrated emerging writers, photographers and artists with the Katie Besser Awards and the Richard Bradford Memorial Creative Writing Scholarship.

Elliott Elkins received the $1,000 scholarship, founded by local author Michael McGarrity, arts advocate Charmay Allred and former Santa Fe city councilwoman Rebecca Wurzburger.

This year's Katie Besser award winners are:

Image

* Winner: Angelique Maez for "Whispers of Autumn"

* Runners-Up: Lynn Grimes for excerpts from the artist book Wildflowers of the Southwest Mountains; Irene Owsley for excerpts from the artist book SKY, New Mexico

Poetry

* Winner: Camari Knox for "In the Distance, Dances My Joy"

* Runners-Up: Cole Ferguson for "Flowers, Bodies"; Loki-Anthony Honey for "Dress Shirt"; Peter McInerney for "blacksmithing in the anthropocene"

* Honorable Mention: Rodney DeHerrera for "Abuelita"

Fiction

* Winner: Slater Garcia for "Instruction Manual"

* Runners-Up: Isabella Keim for "Coral Lungs"; Elliott Elkins for "Lena's Tower"

Creative nonfiction

* Winner: Peter McInerney for "disappearing act"

* Runners-Up: Joanna Johnston for "Unburnt"; Charlie McCarty for "Suburban Afternoon"

* Honorable Mention: Bolden Begody for "Sugar Water"

Academic essay

* Winner: Elliott Elkins for "A Life to Burn"

* Runners-Up: Charlie McCarty for "The Inconvenience of Empathy"; Cole Ferguson for "Defining Beauty, An Exploration of Humanity"

17 New Mexico students win National Merit Scholarships

Seventeen students across New Mexico have received $2,500 scholarships from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, the Public Education Department announced Friday.

The scholarship recipients were selected from a pool of more than 15,000 finalists in the 2024 National Merit Scholarship Program, winners of which were announced earlier this month.

New Mexico's 2024 National Merit $2,500 Scholarship are:

* Annalee Auer, Santa Fe High School

* Natalia Sabato, Academy for Technology and the Classics

* Benjamin Bandy, Next Gen Academy in Albuquerque

* Tiffany Tausch, Albuquerque Academy

* Iris Eisenman, Eldorado High School in Albuquerque

* Ariana Thiel-Hadjilambrinos, La Cueva High School in Albuquerque

* Alexander Goss, Albuquerque Academy

* Aileen Ukwuoma, Early College Academy in Albuquerque

* Uzair Hammad, Albuquerque Academy

* Michael Dryga, V. Sue Cleveland High School in Rio Rancho

* Seth Klein, Hope Christian School in Albuquerque

* Paige Nitti, Explore Academy in Albuquerque

* Aimee Denelle Linebarger, Albuquerque Institute for Mathematics and Science

* Graciela Rodriguez, V. Sue Cleveland High School in Rio Rancho

* Akansha Nanda, Albuquerque Institute for Mathematics and Science

* Abhishek Narahari, Albuquerque Academy

* Shayan Tarefder, La Cueva High School in Albuquerque

Northern New Mexico College to host artist market during El Rito Arts Festival

During the 36th annual El Rito Arts Festival May 18 and 19, Northern New Mexico College will host the 2024 Artist Mercado, featuring local artists, music, food and family-friendly activities.

The Mercado will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in El Pueblito, on Northern New Mexico College's El Rito campus behind Grant Gym.

For more information about the festival, visit elritoartassociation.org/overview.