2022 Regional Scholastic Art Awards

MLWGS Visual Arts is very excited to announce that our talented students were recently honored by having their work selected in the regional Scholastic Art competition.   This is a highly competitive annual art competition which had 1,777 art entries from around the region.  An Exhibition of Gold Key artwork will be up from February 5th-21st at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond: 1812 West Main Street (9am - 9pm, 7 days a week).  Gold Key winners work will be entered in the National Competition.   National awards are announced in March.

MLWGS students had an amazing year, receiving 63 total awards, the most of any school in the region and recognizing Maggie Walker as one of the region’s top schools for the Arts. 

Please join me in congratulating these SENIORS who received received special recognition for their portfolios: 
Hanna Ngai - Gold Key Portfolio, 1 Silver Key, and 2 Honorable Mentions in Sculpture
DevynPowers - 3 Gold Key awards, Silver Key Portfolio and 2 Honorable Mentions as well as the Artist Merit Award
Savannah Cave - 1 Gold Key, 1 Silver Key and Honorable Mention Portfolio in Sculpture
Mallory French - Silver Key in Painting and Honorable Mention Portfolio in painting
Lexi    Pasternak - 2 Silver Keys in Digital Art, Honorable Mention in Animation, and Honorable mention Portfolio in Digital Art

The following students were recognized with Gold and Silver Keys for their artwork:
Rachel Dai - Gold Key Printmaking
Ishaan Dave - Gold Key Drawing
Anna Flora - Gold Key and Silver Key for Photography
Summer    Fraughnaugh - Gold Key in Photography
Cameron Golden - 1 Gold Key and 2 Silver Keys in painting
Reade Henley -  Gold Key in Expanded Projects and Silver Key in Fashion
Hunter    Knull - Gold Key Photography
Isabella    List - Gold Key in Drawing
Mercedes    Luna - Gold Key and Honorable Mention in drawing
Ananya    Sairaman - Gold Key in Drawing
Libbie    Sydnor - Gold Key for Photography
Kaitlyn Baker - Silver Key and Honorable Mention for painting
Madelyn Cambell - Silver Key in Photography
Elisabeth Eckstein - Silver Key and Honorable Mention in Photography
Sophia Isaacs - Silver Key in Photography
Ala    Killen - Silver Key in Painting and 2 honorable mentions
Allyson    Phillips - Silver Key for Photography
Kayla Robertson- Silver Key for Photography
Gwen    Stankiewicz - Silver Key in Fashion

These students were also recognized with Honorable mention awards for their work:
Kori Benjamin (2)
Benjamin Davis
Katherine Hahn (3)
Emil    Josefiak
Madison Kang 
Elena Loy
Gray Pershing
Audrey Price (2)
Cecilia Oseguera
Julia    Turner
Hoda Vohra
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