Schools
Millburn Teens Win Slew Of Scholastic Art Awards
A whopping 52 students earned prizes in the regional competition. Those with top honors will be considered for a national prize.
MILLBURN, NJ — Millburn High School students have won 52 awards in the Northern New Jersey Regional Scholastic Art competition, the school district announced on Tuesday. The Scholastic Art and Writing competition is sponsored by the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers, and has been run since 1923.
The pieces that won the Gold Key, the top regional honor, will also be juried for National Scholastic awards. The ceremony will be held at Carnegie Hall in New York City in spring.
Some of America’s most celebrated artists and artists have received honors in the contest while they were teenagers, including Andy Warhol, Zac Posen, Idelle Weber, Ken Burns, Luis Jiménez, and Kay WalkingStick.
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The mission of the competition is to identify, inspire, and validate the next generation of artists and writers.
A panel of jurors, consisting of artists, photographers, designers, educators, and curators reviewed thousands of works of art submitted by students in grades seven through 12 from throughout North Jersey. The process is "blind" so the jurors do not know any personal information (name, town, school).
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The artwork is reviewed with the criteria of originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision.
The art instructors at the Millburn High School encourage their students to participate in the Scholastic Art Awards competition. The art staff includes Kathleen Harte Gilsenan, Christina Benson Vos, Susan Bromirski, Katherine Reilly, Mary Weber and Jackie Hummer.
The Regional Awards include the Gold Key, Silver Key and Honorable Mention in both the Individual category and the Senior Portfolio category. Gold Key winners are eligible to exhibit one Gold Key winning work of art at the Scholastic Art Award exhibition at Montclair Art Museum (MAM), 3 South Mountain Ave., Montclair.
Gold Key winning work will be exhibited at MAM from this Saturday through March 2. Museum hours are Wednesday to Sunday, 12 to 5 p.m. The Gold Key pieces will also be juried for National Scholastic awards, which include Silver Award and Gold Award.
Here are the regional winners:
Gold Key
Lily Barrack
Raesie Gao
Ishani Juneja
Kate Lama
Jennifer May
Justin Nelson
Gabrielle Stoller
April Wang
Ashley Wang
Chloe Zarin
Betty Zheng
Silver Key
Jordyn Axelrod
Mikayla Barber
Ethan Chan
Nicholas Cosereanu
Kevin Dai
Julia Davisson
Jiarong Du
Angela Huang
Ishani Juneja
Kate Lama
Alexander Ma
Annie Tan
Caroline Vestergaard
Emma Wang
Annabelle Wu
Ellie Yatco
Margaret Zu
Honorable Mention
Jordyn Axelrod
Deiondre Demeterio
Alex DeRosa
Jiarong Du
Eden Elder
Dillon Greenberg
Agnes Han
Beatrice Han
Natalie Ho
Angela Huang
Amanda Jin
Aiden Jones
Kate Lama
Tiffany Lan
Alexander Ma
Michelle Qiu
Bella Ries
Lucy Salas
Gabrielle Stoller
Yuqi Sun
Jacob Updyke
Caroline Vestergaard
Emma Wang
Chloe Zarin
Betty Zheng
Margaret Zu
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