Photo Provided RIVER HIGH School student Aedyn Kraft poses with her award-winning painting “Drowning in Opioids.”

HANNIBAL — A River High School art student recently won an award from the Cleveland Clinic Expressions Art Program for her painting titled “Drowing in

Opioids.”

Aedyn Kraft, daughter of J.J. & Shirley Kraft, is an Art II student at River High School. The hospital’s program awarded her a White Ribbon for her acrylic painting. She will receive $50 and her art teacher, Julia Morris, will receive a $100 educational grant.

Kraft’s painting will be featured in the Expressions Catalogue, on the website, and will be displayed in the 2020 Expressions Art, Language, and Math Exhibition at Cleveland Clinic’s Health Education Campus.

Launched in 2005, Expressions is an award-winning educational initiative that uses creative expression to engage high school students in the exploration of science and medicine.

Through project-based, peer-to-peer learning, students translate research studies conducted by Cleveland Clinic high school interns, producing artistic, literary, and mathematical interpretations of the science.

More than 1,400 art, language, and math projects from three states, 59 schools and 100 teachers were submitted in November.