BY RYAN BOETEL / JOURNAL STAFF WRITER
An Albuquerque high school student’s painting of a coyote howling at a bright moon with red and yellow sand as the backdrop will hang in the U.S. Capitol building for the next year.
Melinda Modisette, a senior at Albuquerque Academy, won the 2021 Congressional Art Competition for New Mexico’s 1st Congressional District.
Each spring, high school students across the country compete in the contest, and the winning artwork from each district is showcased in the Capitol building for a year.
Modisette, who is attending Harvard next year, named her piece “Coyote America” after a book of the same name, which she read as a class assignment.
