Adam Silva adsilva@wickedlocal.com @AdamSMariner

Even though 2,700students won the same type of award, Tori Miller is in pretty exclusive company when you consider 330,000 students from around the world entered the competition.

The Hanover High School seniors colored pencil piece "Blackout"was submitted to the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, also known as the Globe Show and placed in the silver medal category amid thousands of entries.

Surprisingly, Miller's work was created for an anatomy class, not an art class.

We were doing a project on how chemicals affect the body, so we got to pick the topic, said Miller. Im into makeup, so part of it was to create a propaganda poster, so I was just looking for references to put on my poster. I saw the womans photo on Tumblr and I thought it was a beautiful photo to put on a poster. It was a really quick drawing and it wasnt until this year that I touched it again. I didnt add the blue background until I touched it again for this piece.

Hanover High art teacher David Crawford suggests all advanced placement art students submit pieces to the show and Miller added the piece to her portfolio for the class. Several teachers have gone out of their way to commend Miller on her success and to heap praise for her talent.

Not to take anything away from Tori as an individual, but I want to emphasize the fact that the support of her friends is a big part of the success of all of them, said Crawford. She represents the best that Hanover has to offer. Im very glad that she was selected for this and not just for her, but for Hanover itself. Its the best that these kids can do.

Despite her clear talent for art, Miller's love of four-legged creatures is leading her to a career as an animal care specialist. While it sounds the same as veterinary medicine, Miller contends that its different.

The schools she is looking at are Becker College in Worcester and North Shore Community College in Danvers, two of the only colleges in the area that offer the major.

Im still waiting to hear back from them since I applied and I guess it went into their spam mail, she said, with a nervous laugh. Hopefully, if I hear back from them, Ill start as soon as I can.

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