Regional results for the 2016 Scholastic Art & Writing competition are in for the art portion, with a number of visual arts awards going to Academy students (listed below).
Established in 1923, the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards is the nation’s largest, longest-running, most prestigious visual and literary arts program symbolizing excellence and recognizing accomplishments of students in grades 7-12.
An exhibition of award winning gold and silver works from throughout New Mexico will be on display at Warehouse 508 (508 1st St NW) from February 5 through March 26. You may also view a gallery of the award winning art on the New Mexico Art Education Association’s web site (click on “Gallery” to browse through different categories).
Gold Key Award Winners: (now under review in the national competition)
Art Portfolio
Kelly Hughes ’16 – “Tierra Sagrada”
Haley So ’16 – “Pondering in Color”
Ceramics & Glass
Amy Zhang ‘20 – “Dragon Teapot”
Digital Art
Chris Mixon ’18– “Mirrors”
Drawing & Illustration
Ju Yeon Choi ’16 – “Testosterone”
Elana Gonzales ’17 – “Wrinkled Man”, “Trashy Birds” and “Miguel Jackson”
Ana Marin ’20 – “Still Life”
Maggie Mazer ’20 – “Still Life”
Savina Romero ’18 – “campus landscape”
Haley So ’16 – “New Mexican Cliff” and “Charcoal Still Life”
Ella Stroh-Willinghurst ’16 – “Irritated”
Rosa Sun ’17 – “Imperfection”, “Pudding”, “Operation” and “Japanese”
Film & Animation
Sean Taylor ’16 – “Black Box”
Painting
Nicholas Andrews ’20 – “Abstraction”
Jacob Bergen ’16 – “Imagination”
Isabel Jerome ’17 – “Mr. Lipkowitz” and “Merritt B.”
Elisabeth Lawton ’16 – “Relentlessly”
Samuel Lindsey ’16 – “Waves”
Libby Marrs ’16 – “Sevia”
Alex McLaughlin ’19 – “Collage Landscape No. 1” and “A Barrel of Monkies”
Oliver Pilon ’20 – “Descent”
Ella Stroh-Willinghurst ’16 – “Abstraction”
Rosa Sun ’17 – “Connected, Alone”
Kevin Xue ’19 – “Southwest Sunset”
Photography
Mark Joseph ’18 – “Blurred Automobile”
Erin Valdez ’18 – “moon”
Elle Wolfley ‘17 – “Tipton”, “Izzy” and “Brothers”
Printmaking
Morgan Donohue ’17 – “Reflect”
Sculpture
Sebastian Forward ’17 – “Synthesis” and “Sarah”
Marsaili Lowry ’17 – “Adrenaline”
Art Portfolio
Rachael Buffett ’16 – “Intersections”
Jenna Lin ’16 – “Color”
Libby Marrs ’16 – “A Journey Through Portraiture”
Ella Stroh-Willinghurst ’16 – “Entropy”
Digital Art
Sevia Gonzales ’16 – “Spine”
Emma Wellman ’16 – “Baby Face”
Drawing & Illustration
Ju Yeon Choi ’16 – “One summer day”
Elana Gonzales ’17 – “Graphic Oak” and “Birds and Bones”
Zane Horton ’18 – “Barren Red”
AJ Leonard ‘19 – “Self-Portrait”
Audrey Ng ‘20 – “Around A Still Life”
Claire Rembe ‘21 – “Flowers In Moonlight”
Savina Romero ’18 – “Pop”
Rosa Sun ’17 – “String”
Tabitha Vaughan ’16 – “The Writer’s Journal”
Katarina Yepez ’18 – “Light & Shadow”
Film & Animation
Matia Daskalos ’17 – “A Moment in Time”
Jade Markinson ’17 – “Stolen Treat”
Abigail Roberts-Baca ’16 – “Gleam”
Painting
Merritt Barnwell ’17 – “Sean Taylor and girl” and “Twins”
Ju Yeon Choi ’16 – “Bedside”
Lani Erker ’16 – “Béatrice” and “Human”
Cameron Golden ’18 – “Arches”
Elana Gonzales ’17 – “Inky Lana”
Isabel Jerome ’17 – “Isa”
Rachael Stegmaier ’17 – “The Direction of Sunbeams”
Photography
Cody Bratzler ’16 – “Lock & Key” and “The Painter”
Julia Emerson ’16 – “Shadows”
Kelly Hughes ’16 – “Shelby”
Libby Marrs ’16 – “Noxious”
Kylee Taylor ’16 – “Legs”
Printmaking
Julia Emerson ’16 – “Swirl”
Megan Holzrichter ‘19 – “On the Yangtze River”
Emily Louth ‘16 – “Graffiti”
Sculpture
Libby Fidel ’16 – “Améliorer la Communcation (To Better Communication)” and “Nature’s Decay”
Shea Fitzgerald ‘19 – “Scorpius”
Anokhi Kholwadwala ’18 – “The Enigma”
Sophie Long ‘17 – “Family Connection”
Annie Sanchez ’16 – “Suspension”
Art Portfolio
Jacob Bergen ’16 – “Abstraction” and “Broken Frames”
Lauren Davis ’16 – “A Piece of Myself”
Kylee Taylor ’16 – “We are the Children”
Drawing & Illustration
Stella Asmerom ‘19 – “Self-Reflection” and “Autumn Architecture“
Ju Yeon Choi ’16 – “Refraction”
Elana Gonzales ’17 – “The Strange Puzzle”
Alex Lanthiez ‘21 – “Hiding”
Lauren Leland ‘21 – “3 Best Friends”
Zoey Stady ‘21 – “Patterns In Nature”
Tabitha Vaughan ’16 – “Dripping Angst” and “New Mexico Landscape”
Amy Zhang ‘20 – “Still Life”
Film & Animation
Jacob Bergen ’16 – “Gulch”
Matia Daskalos ’17 – “Girl vs. Society”
Elizabeth Hanselmann ’18 – “Lost”
Angela Zhou ’17 – “Practice Makes Perfect”
Painting
Merritt Barnwell ’17 – “Young and Older”, “Girl and Boy” and “Large Portrait”
Isabel Jerome ’17 – “T.” and “Blue Man”
Samuel Lindsey ’16 – “Magic”
Libby Marrs ’16 – “Looking In”
Magdalena Ramos Mullane ’18 – “Listen Self Portrait“
Ella Stroh-Willinghurst ’16 – “Spooky Sunflowers“
Rosa Sun ’17 – “Native”
Mai Ly Torres Baker ’18 – “A Crab’s Journey” and “Blue Sandia”
Photography
Sebastian Baca ’18 – “Stitches”
Ian Conley ’17 – “Second World”
Makenzie Fisher ’17 – “The Ladder”
Sevia Gonzales ’16 – “Wrinkles”
Kelly Hughes ’16 – “Disks in the Desert”
Mercy Moya ’18 – “Work”
Anna Rekow ’16 – “Translation”
Reagan Scott ‘19 – “Life From Below”
Kylee Taylor ’16 – “My Own World”
Sean Taylor ’16 – “Car part”
Myrka Vargas ‘19 – “Fired”
Printmaking
Eryn Ormesher ’17 – “Urban Legend”
Sculpture
Rachel Bauer ’18 – “Helping Hand”
Adam Bethel ‘17 – “Stumble”
Matthew Blumenschein ’16 – “Overgrowth”
Rachael Buffett ’16 – “Enlightment”
Sophie Long ’17 – “Contained Potential”
Annie Sanchez ’16 – “Omniscience”
