Scholastic Art Award Winners Announced

1/28/2020

St. Stephen’s is pleased to announce its regional Scholastic Art Award winners for 2020. Judges for the Austin-area competition received nearly 1,500 individual student submissions and 33 senior portfolios, all of which were adjudicated by a panel of creative professionals on Saturday, Jan. 11.

Our school was well represented in this year’s competition. Seven 8th grade students and 26 Upper School students submitted 58 works or portfolios for consideration.

Spartan artists received 19 Gold Key awards, 15 Silver Key awards and 24 Honorable Mentions for their artwork, which spanned a range of categories that included Film and Animation, Painting, Drawing, Printmaking, Fashion, Architecture, Sculpture, Digital Art, Mixed Media, Photography, Cartooning, and Ceramics and Glass.

The regional Scholastic Writing Awards will be announced by the end of January. Gold Key recipients for both art and writing will move on to the national competition, which will be held later this spring. National winners will be invited to attend the national Scholastic Art and Writing Awards ceremony at Carnegie Hall in New York City in June.

Special thanks go to our school’s outstanding fine arts teachers, who helped prepare students for this important competition: Elizabeth Zepeda, Jennie Gray ’93, Lisa Orr, Mike Dolan, Chris Caselli ’82 and Mengxi Wang.

Gold Key-winning works will be on display in the Scanlan Art Gallery in the Helm Fine Arts Center from Jan. 26 to Feb. 7.

2020 Art Awards

Sarah Aggarwal, Bridge to the Lonely, Honorable Mention, Photography
Aiden Bennett, v, Gold Key, Photography; Game Over, Silver Key, Photography
Lexi Bielinski, Culture Cry, Honorable Mention, Editorial Cartoon sponsored by The Herb Block Foundation
Penelope Cano, Mixed Messages, Gold Key, Digital Art; We Just Wanted to be Loved, Silver Key, Design; Born Sinners, Honorable Mention, Digital Art
Eliza Cho, Plastic Ocean, Gold Key, Printmaking
Katie Cline, Sunshine in Haiti, Honorable Mention, Drawing and Illustration; The Weight of Your Expectations, Honorable Mention, Drawing and Illustration
Gus Cosby, Jack Action, Gold Key, Film and Animation
Zoe Ehrlich, Sea Worm, Honorable Mention, Photography
Eddie Gao, Living in Death, Honorable Mention, Printmaking
Ava Gonzalez, Beautiful Ladies, Honorable Mention, Digital Art
Reese Goodman, Feeling That, Honorable Mention, Ceramics and Glass
Jack Gormin, Ambitions, Silver Key, Photography
Jerry Hao, 6D Fall-Out, Honorable Mention, Architecture and Industrial Design
Julia Johnson, Looking in a Mirror, Silver Key, Drawing and Illustration; Day at the Beach, Silver Key, Painting
Olivia Korensky, Neo Pinkies Poster Art, Honorable Mention, Comic Art
Chloe Legere, Girl Photography, Silver Key, Photography
Sophia Limotte, Something You Forgot, Gold Key, Ceramics and Glass
Selina Lu, Winged Creature, Gold Key, Drawing and Illustration; Daydream, Gold Key, Painting; Subway Chaos, Gold Key, Drawing and Illustration; Cramming, Silver Key, Painting
Anouk Martin-Gachot, Deconstructing The "White" Cowboy, Gold Key, Mixed Media
Anna Nasi, Fabric + Form, Honorable Mention, Art Portfolio; The Jackie, Honorable Mention, Fashion; Cardboard Couture, Honorable Mention, Fashion
John David O'Hara, Meditation, Honorable Mention, Photography
Michelle Ramirez, Exact, Silver Key, Printmaking
Regan Rudman, Dream in a Dream, Gold Key, Photography; Chromesthesia, Gold Key, Art Portfolio; Dream in a Dream, Gold Key, Photography; Bloom into You, Honorable Mention, Photography
Bella Salazar-Harper, The Art of Performance: An Addition to the New York High Line, Gold Key, Architecture and Industrial Design
Evan Schlesinger, Art Without Humanity, Gold Key, Future New
Tony Shan, En Route, Gold Key, Photography; Phoenix-Fly, Gold Key, Photography; Power of The Universe, Gold Key, Photography; Historical Content, Honorable Mention, Photography; Boundaries, Honorable Mention, Photography; The Light Within, Honorable Mention, Photography
Hannah Simmonds, Maze of Madness, Honorable Mention, Design
Addison Starr, Girl in the Wind, Honorable Mention, Photography
Kristin Svahn, The Light Before the Dark, Gold Key, Photography; Walking on the Line, Silver Key, Photography
Ray Swartz, Man Enough, Gold Key, Photography; Caught by Chaos, Silver Key, Photography; Untitled, Silver Key, Photography; Dottie, Silver Key, Photography; Form, Honorable Mention, Photography; His Young Eyes, Honorable Mention, Photography
Lara Tanner, Deconstructed, Silver Key, Sculpture
Allan Tran, Hope, Silver Key, Photography
Annie Wang, The Last Green in the Earth, Silver Key, Painting; Hygge, Honorable Mention, Painting

Photos courtesy of Chris Caselli '82

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