Two Lyons Township High School student-artists earned medals in the 2016 National Scholastic Art Awards. Senior Lyrik Castro, of LaGrange Park, received a national Gold Medal for her drypoint collection, The Passport Letters. This work will be displayed in New York with other national Gold Medal winners. Lyrik is planning to attend the School of the Art Institute of Chicago next year. Freshman Cain Nocera, of LaGrange Park, received a national Silver Medal for his digital photograph, Fly By.
In total, two dozen pieces of art work created by 17 LT artists advanced to the Scholastic Art Awards national competition in New York. LT’s winning entries were among more than 300,000 works of art and writing submitted from students across the country. The Scholastics Art & Writing Awards are the most prestigious national award competition given in the visual arts for high school students. The process starts at the regional level where approximately 10% of submitted works are awarded the highest regional award for submissions, a regional Gold Key. All of the Gold Key winners are then judged at the national level. Approximately 10% of the Gold Keys winners judged at nationals will win a national medal, putting a piece awarded a medal in the top 1% of works submitted nationally.
