The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards are presented by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers.
The Alliance is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to identify students with exceptional artistic and literary talent and present their remarkable work to the world through the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Through the Awards, students receive opportunities for recognition, exhibition, publication, and scholarships. Students across America, this year, submitted nearly 350,000 original works in 29 different categories of art and writing.
This year, thirty-nine Vermont Academy students won 29 honorable mentions, 38 Silver Keys, and 8 Gold Keys. Two students were nominated for the American Voices medal as well. This special honor is given to only five writers in each region and Vermont Academy earned two of the five! Gold Key and American Voices winners will be judged at the National level in March.
All winners are invited to attend an award assembly at Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) on Saturday, March 2.
Full list of recipients (alphabetical order):
Ahn, Jungnam — Grade 11
woman with bag — Silver Key, Photography
Annis, Sarah — Grade 11
C-SPAN: An American Institution — Silver Key, Personal Essay/Memoir
Baker, Daniel — Grade 12
Jumping — Silver Key, Personal Essay/Memoir
Taiwan — Silver Key, Personal Essay/Memoir
Blossom, Zoee — Grade 12
Elegance in Nature — Honorable Mention, Art Portfolio
Invasive — Honorable Mention, Painting
Buchanan, Seth — Grade 12
Depths of Hell — Honorable Mention, Science Fiction/Fantasy
Cavanaugh, Aishling — Grade 12
Yes, I Do Play Hockey. — Silver Key, Personal Essay/Memoir
Curtis, Jakob — Grade 12
My Car — Silver Key, Personal Essay/Memoir
Dong, Wanyue — Grade 12
I Speak For the Sea Turtles — Silver Key, Personal Essay/Memoir
Dranfield, Owen — Grade 12
The Game — Honorable Mention, Personal Essay/Memoir
Engle, Cody — Grade 12
Cable Box — Gold Key, Flash Fiction
Eppinger, Lauren — Grade 11
But fantasy kills imagination - Iris Murdoch — Silver Key, Painting
Who Gets Water? — Silver Key, Personal Essay/Memoir
Where I'm From — Silver Key, Poetry
Evee, Travis — Grade 12
This I Believe — Honorable Mention, Personal Essay/Memoir
Feloney, Cameron — Grade 11
Silence — Silver Key, Personal Essay/Memoir
Fuller, Miranda — Grade 12
Cafe 7 — Gold Key, American Voices Nominee, Flash Fiction
Coming Up Roses — Gold Key, Personal Essay/Memoir
Path of Totality — Gold Key, Dramatic Script
Isa Bella — Silver Key, Short Story
Koru — Silver Key, Writing Portfolio
House of Õelus — Silver Key, Science Fiction/Fantasy
The Whole Story — Silver Key, Personal Essay/Memoir
Something to Play With — Silver Key, Writing Portfolio
Childcare in the 18th Century — Honorable Mention, Critical Essay
Rose Colored Water — Honorable Mention, Flash Fiction
Theory of Concentricity — Honorable Mention, Personal Essay/Memoir
Goldman, Makenzie — Grade 12
A Tedious Lunchtime Tradition — Silver Key, Personal Essay/Memoir
Goldstein, Devin — Grade 12
Queer College Manifesto — Silver Key, Personal Essay/Memoir
Generic Jews & Me — Silver Key, Personal Essay/Memoir
When the Youth Go Marching — Honorable Mention, Journalism
Gong, Aaron — Grade 12
Another World — Silver Key, Personal Essay/Memoir
Hansen, Mark — Grade 12
untitled — Silver Key, Photography
city vibes — Silver Key, Personal Essay/Memoir
Obelisk — Honorable Mention, Photography
Harrington, Spencer — Grade 10
My Heart, My Tradition — Honorable Mention, Personal Essay/Memoir
Hepensteil, Steven — Grade 12
The Ninja Clubhouse — Honorable Mention, Personal Essay/Memoir
Holcombe, Darwin — Grade 11
The Escape — Honorable Mention, Digital Art
Shipwrecked. — Honorable Mention, Photography
Huang, Gary — Grade 11
Ugly Sweatshirt — Honorable Mention, Ceramics & Glass
Sands Of Coliseum — Honorable Mention, Ceramics & Glass
Hubbard, James — Grade 12
Cheese-based Revenge — Silver Key, Personal Essay/Memoir
Hughes, Maureen — Grade 12
Behind the Iris — Silver Key, Writing Portfolio
Jacobelli, Sarah — Grade 12
Metamorphosis — Silver Key, Personal Essay/Memoir
Kendrick, Sam — Grade 12
Unschooling Myself — Silver Key, Writing Portfolio
Dreams — Silver Key, Flash Fiction
The Ghost Across the Room — Silver Key, Short Story
Until Our Dying Breath — Silver Key, Science Fiction/Fantasy
A Drink — Silver Key, Short Story
The River — Gold Key, Science Fiction/Fantasy
Have you Ever? — Honorable Mention, Poetry
Rain — Silver Key, Short Story
A Rock In The Storm — Honorable Mention, Science Fiction/Fantasy
Legos — Honorable Mention, Personal Essay/Memoir
Strangers in the Dark — Honorable Mention, Short Story
Lynch, Andrew — Grade 12
I Believe — Honorable Mention, Personal Essay/Memoir
Miglorie, Grace — Grade 10
anna in charcoal, charcoal in mind. — Silver Key, Drawing and Illustration
Paluszek, Alexandra — Grade 11
The Lesson Plan — Silver Key, Humor
Rashkovsky, Nicholas — Grade 12
Memories Last Forever — Silver Key, Personal Essay/Memoir
Robinson, Sarah — Grade 11
Drawn Together — Honorable Mention, Drawing and Illustration
Segui, Izabella — Grade 10
Horror Film — Honorable Mention, Photography
Sidhu, Bijon — Grade 12
This I Believe — Honorable Mention, Personal Essay/Memoir
Thurber, Cody — Grade 12
It's All In The Details — Gold Key, Personal Essay/Memoir
Wang, Siyang — Grade 11
Brush Rack, Stone, and Small Calabash — Honorable Mention, Painting
Wang, Xiaoqing — Grade 12
I'm Not Wearing That Skirt — Honorable Mention, Personal Essay/Memoir
Zhang, Lance — Grade 12
Harbor — Gold Key, American Voices Nominee, Poetry
Grandma — Gold Key, Personal Essay/Memoir
The Waltz of Memory — Silver Key, Writing Portfolio
Yes, Yes, Yesman — Silver Key, Poetry
The Nudge of A Great God's Hand — Silver Key, Poetry
Zobitz, Joe — Grade 12
Overcoming — Silver Key, Personal Essay/Memoir
Zorman, Evan — Grade 11
Speed of Lightning — Honorable Mention, Personal Essay/Memoir