The following Averill Park High School Art students submitted artwork to the Scholastics Art and writing competition this year: Rebecca Gallerani, Sydney Farron, Lilly Jacobson, Maya Love, and Ash Zimmerman. Each of the students earned recognition for their tremendous work!
Since 1923 the Scholastic Awards have recognized some of America’s most celebrated artists including Amanda Gorman, Tschabalala Self, Stephen King, Kay WalkingStick, Charles White, Joyce Carol Oates, and Andy Warhol. Each work of art is blindly adjudicated, first locally through the more than 100 affiliates of the Alliance, and then nationally by panels of renowned artists, authors, educators and industry experts. Works are judged on originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.
This year, students from 14 counties and 87 junior and senior high schools around Central New York submitted 4,555 artworks for consideration. A panel of professional artists, educators and photographers judged the pieces and selected nearly 1,300 works for Gold Keys, Silver Keys and Honorable Mentions.
Gold Keys:
Less than 7 percent of participating students are recognized as Gold Key winners, Averill Park students, Sydney Farron took the prize for her tempera painting titled “Vitamin See” as did Lilly Jacobson for her colored pencil drawing titled, “The Cow”. Gold Key recipients will be re-evaluated on March 22nd to determine whether or not they will be awarded a Gold or Silver Medal and may be displayed in regional, national, and traveling exhibitions. Students will also be eligible for additional art scholarships of up to 25,000 to many of the top art schools in our country.
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| Sydney Farron
Vitamin See Tempera paint Dimensions 14.75 x 19.5 |
Lilly Jacobson
The Cow Colored Pencil 16 x 12 |
Silver Keys:
8-10 % of participants earned “SilverKeys” This year, Rebecca Gallerani earned a Silver Key, one for her ink drawing titled “Friendly Neighbors” and Maya Love was awarded 2 Silver Keys, one her her temper painting titled “The Forsaken”, and another for her ink drawing titled, “Misty Night Blues”.
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| Rebecca Gallerani
Friendly Neighbors India Ink 10 x 13 |
Maya Love
Misty Night Blues India Ink 14.5 x 11 in |
Maya Love
The Forsaken Tempera Paint 20 x 13 |
Honorable Mentions:
Ash Zimmerman submitted a digital diptych titled “Keeping What Matters” and “The Life Around Me, a digital self portrait illustration. Both submissions earned them an Honorable Mention which only 11-15 percent of participants receive.
Rebecca Gallerani also earned an honorable mention for her charcoal self portrait titled, “An Apple A Day”.
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| Rebecca Gallerani
An Apple A Day Charcoal 25 x 18.5 |
Ash Zimmerman
The Life Around Me Digital Painting 12 x 14 |
Ash Zimmerman
Keeping What Matters Digital Painting 12 x 16
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