 The MLWGS Visual Arts Department is thrilled to announce that our creative students were recently honored by having their work selected for awards in the regional 2026 Scholastic Art competition. This is a highly competitive annual art competition which had 3360 art entries from around the region. MLWGS students had another great year with 104 total awards, recognizing Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School as one of the region’s top schools for the Arts.
Summary: 104 total awards A new record breaking year for MLWGS! 25 Gold Keys awards including 2 Gold Key Portfolios (2 Gold Key Art portfolios, 16 Art Gold Keys, 7 Photo Gold Keys) 39 Silver Keys awards including 1 Silver Key Portfolio (1 Silver Key Art portfolio, 32 Art Silver Keys, 6 Photo Silver Keys) 40 Honorable Mentions including 7 Honorable Mention Portfolios (6 HM Art Portfolio, 1 HM Photo Portfolio, 22 Art HM, 11 Photo HM) Portfolio Awards A portfolio award is very difficult to achieve as it requires a comprehensive body of work expressing a unique artistic voice. Please join me in congratulating the following SENIORS who received special recognition for their portfolios.
Gold and Silver Key winners will have their work displayed at the Visual Art Center of Richmond from Feb. 7- Feb. 22 with a in-person reception on Feb. 21 at 2pm at Dogwood Middle School. All Gold Key works will advance to National Competition with winners to be exhibited in New York. Congratulations to the following students who were recognized with individual Gold Keys and/or Silver Keys:
These students will have their work included in a slide show of Honorable Mention winners. Please join me in congratulating these students who were recognized with Honorable Mention awards for their work:
Congratulations to these students on their well-deserved awards. Go Dragons!
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 The MLWGS Visual Arts Department is thrilled to announce that our creative students were recently honored by having their work selected for awards in the regional 2025 Scholastic Art competition. This is a highly competitive annual art competition which had 2699 art entries from around the region. MLWGS students had another great year with 82 total awards, recognizing Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School as one of the region’s top schools for the Arts.
Summary: 82 total awards 23 Gold Keys awards including 4 Gold Key Portfolios (3 Gold Key Art portfolios, 1 Gold Key Photo Portfolio, 13 Art Gold Keys, 6 Photo Gold Keys) 21 Silver Keys awards including 1 Silver Key Portfolio (1 Silver Key Art portfolio, 14 Art Silver Keys, 6 Photo Silver Keys) 38 Honorable Mentions including 2 Honorable Mention Portfolios (1 HM Art Portfolio, 1 HM Photo Portfolio, 27 Art HM, 9 Photo HM) Portfolio Awards A portfolio award is very difficult to achieve as it requires a comprehensive body of work expressing a unique artistic voice. Please join me in congratulating the following SENIORS who received special recognition for their portfolios.
Gold and Silver Key winners will have their work displayed at the Visual Art Center of Richmond from Feb. 8- Feb. 23rd with a in-person reception on Feb. 22 at 2pm at Dogwood Middle School. All Gold Key works will advance to National Competition with winners to be exhibited in New York. Congratulations to the following students who were recognized with individual Gold Keys and/or Silver Keys:
These students will have their work included in a slide show of Honorable Mention winners. Please join me in congratulating these students who were recognized with Honorable Mention awards for their work:
Congratulations to these students on their well-deserved awards. Go Dragons!  We had a wonderful night of music and art on Wednesday evening at Maggie L. Walker Governor's School! Special thanks to our incredible students, teachers, and parents for making our Youth Art and Music Month opening event such a success! The music performances sounded fantastic, the visual art looked amazing and there was such a great community of supporters enjoying the combined talents of all of our students. It takes so much passion and dedication to make this event a success each year! Thanks to everyone who attended and for your ongoing support of our Maggie L. Walker Visual and Performing Arts program. The exhibition will run through March 21st! Here’s just a few photos from opening night. #mlwgs  By raw numbers, our MLWGS regional student representation is only slightly surpassed by schools with much larger student populations. By percentage of enrollment, MLWGS may have the highest ratio of student musicians in our district. 1 in 3 band and orchestra students were accepted regionally. 1 in 8 are eligible at the state level.
In addition, 2 band students and 2 orchestra students were accepted into All-State. Congratulations to all of our talented Maggie L. Walker Governor's School musicians!  Here's a sampling of a few of our Gold and Silver Key winners! The MLWGS Visual Arts Department is very excited to announce that our talented students were recently honored by having their work selected in the regional 2023 Scholastic Art competition. This is a highly competitive annual art competition which had 1878 art entries from around the region.
MLWGS students had one of their best years ever with 69 total awards and the most portfolio winners from ANY school, recognizing Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School as one of the region’s top schools for the Arts. 69 total awards 28 Gold Keys awards including 3 Gold Key Portfolios and 1 American Visions Nominee 14 Silver Keys awards including 2 Silver Key Portfolios 27 Honorable Mentions including 4 Honorable Mention Portfolios Two Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School students received special recognition for their work in this show. Senior, Kori Benjamin, received an American Visions Award nomination for her drawing, Girls with Guns. Additionally, senior, Gray Pershing’s sculpture, Stargirl, was chosen for the VisArts Artistic Merit Award. A portfolio award is very difficult to achieve as it requires a comprehensive body of work expressing a unique artistic voice. Maggie Walker Governor’s School received the most portfolio awards of any school in the region. Please join me in congratulating the following SENIORS who received received special recognition for their portfolios. V Bryson - Gold Key Art Portfolio with additional awards of 1 Gold Key in Mixed Media and 1 Honorable Mention in Extended Projects Reade Henley - Gold Key Art Portfolio with additional awards of 1 Silver Key and 1 Honorable Mention for Fashion Julia Turner - Gold Key Photography Portfolio with additional awards of 1 Gold Key and 1 Silver Key for Photography Ala Killen - Silver Key Photography Portfolio, Honorable Mention Art Portfolio, with additional awards of 2 Silver Keys for Painting, 1 Silver Key for Photography, and 3 Honorable Mentions for Photography Ananya Sairaman - Silver Key Art Portfolio with additional awards of 4 Gold Keys for Drawing, Printmaking, and Painting Kori Benjamin - Honorable Mention Art Portfolio, with additional award of 1 Gold Key and American Visions Award Nominee in Drawing and 1 Gold Key in Painting Cameron Golden - Honorable Mention Art Portfolio with additional award of 1 Silver Key in Painting Libbie Sydnor - Honorable Mention Photography Portfolio with additional award of 1 Honorable Mention in Sculpture Gold and Silver Key winners will have their work displayed at the Visual Art Center of Richmond from Feb. 3- Feb. 20th. Gold Key works will be juried in New York for consideration for National Awards. Congratulations to the following students who were recognized with individual Gold Keys and/or Silver Keys: Lucie Bouton - Gold Key in Photography and Silver Key in Sculpture Tyler DeHaven - Gold Key in Digital Art Hannah Fetter - Gold Key in Photography and Honorable Mention in Ceramics Charlie Goodman - Gold Key in Photography Emil Josefiak - Gold Key in Printmaking and Gold Key in Mixed Media Izzy List - Gold Key in Painting Mercedes Luna - Gold Key in Drawing and another Gold Key in Printmaking Shorya Malani - Gold Key in Photography Cecilia Oseguera - Gold Key and Honorable Mention in Painting Gray Pershing - Two Gold Keys and an Honorable Mention in Sculpture Allyson Phillips- Two Gold Keys and an Honorable Mention in Photography Brielle Telfair - Gold Key in Mixed Media Carson Wang - Gold Key and an Honorable Mention in Film and Animation Ananthu Anish - Silver Key in Drawing Ella Cable - Silver Key in Photography Matilda Frantz - Silver Key in Drawing Xavier Julien - Silver Key in Digital Art Sadie McMahon - Silver Key in Design The Scholastic Arts competition is extremely competitive. All recognitions celebrate the quality of these student works. Please join me in congratulating these students who were recognized with Honorable Mention awards for their work: Colleen Blakeney - HM in Photography Elizabeth Eckstein- HM in Photography Sadie Hall - HM in Fashion Muriel Lewis - HM in Design Ryan Marks - HM in Photography Owen McDonald - HM in Photography Kaysen Mills - HM in Printmaking Mattias Parandeh - HM in Photography Lambrini Phillos - HM in Painting Sibi Sundar - HM in Photography Olympia Theofanos - HM in Photography Congratulations to all these talented students! Go Dragons! Congratulations to Cecilia on her opening this past Thursday! Such a wonderful exhibition of her dynamic paintings and mixed media works. Find out more about her work here.
https://ceciliaa1008.wixsite.com/cecisartcollection/art #mlwgs #art   Each quarter, with the support of our Visual Arts Boosters, we are able to have a day with the figure model in class. This quarter, Art 2 students have been learning about chiaroscuro and focusing on figure proportion. Today, they created these amazing subtractive drawings using erasers with charcoal! There are some rock stars in this class young class. #mlwgs #art
Congratulations to Reade on a fantastic Art 5 solo exhibition opening and artist talk today. Her fashions, made from recycled materials, are inspiring and thought provoking. The exhibition is up through this Friday! Don’t miss it.
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