Twenty-One Art Students Earn Scholastic Art & Writing Awards

Twenty-one of Mr. Ramon Riley and Mrs. Mary Anne Andreassi’s art students recently won 33 awards in the regional Scholastic Art & Writing Awards competition, including four Gold Key Awards and 11 Silver Key Awards. These awards are considered the nation’s longest-running and most prestigious fine arts awards for students.

Jimena Belda, Amelia Hackel, Charlie Ozelski and Benjamin Santiago received Gold Key Awards. Gold Key winners move on to national judging, the results of which will be announced in late March. 

Silver Key Award winners include Megan Black (2), John Folino, Cadence Foote, Amelia Hackel, Serafina Julio, Kaylee Koch, Kiera Moskala, Erin Murray, Charlie Ozelski and Brooklyn Ramirez.

In addition to earning a Gold Key Award, Charlie Ozelski is an American Visions nominee, the program’s Best in Show award, for Happy Meals. Two students were awarded for their portfolios: Kiera Moskala earned a Silver Key Award and Megan Black earned an Honorable Mention. 

Gold and silver award-winning works and winning portfolios will be displayed at Carnegie Mellon University’s Fine Arts Building from February 25 – March 9. Award winners will be honored in a ceremony on March 9.

Since 1923, the awards have recognized some of the nation’s most celebrated artists and writers while they were teenagers, including Tschabalala Self, Stephen King, Kay WalkingStick, José Parlá, Amanda Gorman, Charles White, Joyce Carol Oates and Andy Warhol.

Congratulations to all of our talented student artists!

Jimena Belda, 11

• Me and Architecture—Gold Key (Mixed Media)

Aubree Bennett, 11

• Green Phone—Honorable Mention (Drawing & Illustration)

Megan Berger, 12

• Being in a Crowd—Honorable Mention (Drawing & Illustration)

Megan Black, 12

• Red—Silver Key (Digital Art)
• Blue—Silver Key (Digital Art)
• Fashion Magazines—Honorable Mention (Portfolio Category (Art))

Brynn Bosack, 11

• Blue Jay—Honorable Mention (Mixed Media)

John Folino, 12

• Doubt—-Silver Key (Expanded Projects)

Cadence Foote, 11

• Robot’s Desire—Silver Key (Digital Art)

Amelia Hackel, 12

• Math Homework—Gold Key (Digital Art)
• Advertisement—Silver Key (Digital Art)

Jenna Henry, 12

• Beetle Battle—Honorable Mention (Painting)

Blair Herberger, 12

• Juliet In Distress—Honorable Mention (Drawing & Illustration)
• Rock Chic Woman—Honorable Mention (Drawing & Illustration)

Serafina Julio, 11

• Architectural Inspired Cafe Design—Silver Key (Architecture & Industrial Design)

Kaylee Koch, 11

• A Curved Path—Silver Key (Painting)
• Let Your Voice Be Heard—Honorable Mention (Drawing & Illustration)
• In Our Hands—Honorable Mention (Drawing & Illustration)

Isaac Kraus, 11

• Dreaming Dragon—Honorable Mention (Drawing & Illustration)

Kiera Moskala, 12

• Twisted Tales—Silver Key (Portfolio Category (Art))
• The Birds—Honorable Mention (Photography)
• The Waterfall—Honorable Mention (Photography)

Erin Murray, 12

• This Is It—Silver Key (Painting)

Charlie Ozelski, 12

• Happy Meals—Gold Key, American Visions Nominee (Drawing & Illustration)
• The Gentleman—Silver Key (Drawing & Illustration)
• Man on the Water—Honorable Mention (Photography)
• Nature's Trough—Honorable Mention (Drawing & Illustration)

Brooklyn Ramirez, 12

• peace of the pond—Silver Key (Painting)
• deep creek—Honorable Mention (Painting)
• English farms—Honorable Mention (Painting)

Maria Ribeiro, 11

• An Egotistical Swan—Honorable Mention (Drawing & Illustration)

Alexis Ross, 11

• After the Sun Sets—Honorable Mention (Drawing & Illustration)

Ariella Ruediger, 11

• Ripped from the Pages—Honorable Mention (Mixed Media)

Benjamin Santiago, 12

• Restless Knight—Gold Key (Drawing & Illustration)