Rego Park High Schooler To Have Painting Displayed In The U.S Capitol

FOREST HILLS, QUEENS — A Rego Park high schooler will have her painting displayed in the U.S. Capitol after she won a congressional art contest on Thursday.

Angela Lin, an 11th grader at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and Performing Arts, will have her painting of two sanitation workers working in the rain titled "Unsung Heroes" in Capitol Hill.

The contest was hosted by Rep. Grace Meng , who accepted art entries from Queens high school students as a part of the national contest “An Artistic Discovery.”

“The young artists from our communities continue to show such enormous creativity and talent through the great artwork that they submit for my competition, and I am again impressed and inspired by the entries I received this year,” said Meng.

Menglin Chen, a 10th grader at Veritas Academy in Flushing, and Xiao Yan Wang, a 10th grader at Newtown High School in Elmhurst, won second and third place, respectively. They will have their artwork displayed at Meng's office.

The competition's entries consisted of artwork from a variety of mediums including paintings (oil, watercolors, acrylic, etc.), collages, drawings and prints (lithographs, silk screens, etc.).

There were 27 submissions for this year’s competition.

The Artistic Discovery contest was launched in 1982 for Members of Congress to highlight the artistic work of high school students from around the nation. Since it began, hundreds of thousands of high school students from throughout the United States have participated in the competition.