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TN Students Honored as Scholastic Art & Writing Award Medalists

From Virginia McEnerney, Alliance for Young Artists & Writers Executive Director—

UnknownThirty-five students across Tennessee were announced as recipients of National Medals in the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards on March 14, 2016. The Scholastic Awards is the largest, longest ­running scholarship and recognition program for creative teens, and is presented annually by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers through support from Scholastic, Inc.

Partnering with national organizations like the National Writing Project and the National Art Education Association, the Alliance has a proven track record of identifying creative leaders and providing the nation’s most creative students with life-changing opportunities for recognition, publication, exhibition opportunities and scholarships.

Since the program’s founding in 1923, the Awards have fostered the creativity and talent of millions of students, including renowned alumni who have gone on to become leaders in their fields, including Andy Warhol, Truman Capote, Richard Avedon, Philip Pearlstein, and Sylvia Plath. More recently, Stephen King, Richard Linklater, Zac Posen, and Lena Dunham received Scholastic Art & Writing Awards when they were teens.

From an initial pool of nearly 320,000 submissions, 2,400 works of art and writing earned a National Medal. Students receiving top awards and their educators will be honored at a National Ceremony at Carnegie Hall in New York City on Thursday, June 2. Artwork from students earning Gold Medals will be featured in an exhibition at Parsons School of Design at The New School and Pratt Institute’s Pratt Manhattan Gallery. A portion of that work will be on display in a traveling exhibition that will travel to four cities next year. A selection of students receiving Awards for writing will have their work published in the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers annual anthology The Best Teen Writing.

Click to see Tennessee Awardees

Mathieu Agee, University School of Nashville, Nashville
Awarded: Gold Medal in Ceramics & Glass for “Bowl”

Lily Bix-Daw, Memphis Central High School, Memphis
Awarded: Silver Medal in Painting for “My Father”
Awarded: Silver Medal in Painting for “Riko and Kanta”

Carmel Buckingham, Ensworth High School, Nashville
Awarded: Silver Medal in Poetry for “Her Lips Say No”

Kathryn Capizzi, The Harpeth Hall School, Nashville
Awarded: Gold Medal in Critical Essay for “Reducing the Prevalence of Poverty in the United States”

Danielle Caron, Battle Ground Academy, Franklin
Awarded: Silver Medal in Drawing and Illustration for “Little Bunny Foofoo”

Hannah Chen, Hume Fogg High Academic Magnet, Nashville
Awarded: Gold Medal in Painting for “Woman”

Kate Cunningham, Hutchison School, Memphis
Awarded: Silver Medal in Drawing and Illustration for “Empty Embrace”

Sarah Ding, White Station Middle School, Memphis
Awarded: Silver Medal in Drawing and Illustration for “Bridge to the Past”

Emma Dowden, Houston High School, Germantown
Awarded: Silver Medal in Drawing and Illustration for “I Always Looks Scared”

Del Carmen Drolick, Hendersonville High School, Hendersonville
Awarded: Silver Medal in Painting for “Sunny Side Up”

Cameron Eubank, Evangelical Christian School, Cordova
Awarded: Silver Medal in Sculpture for “Sisyphus”

Paige Glasser, Nashville School of the Arts, Nashville
Awarded: Silver Medal in Short Story for “Call the Church”

Abby Hays, Hutchison School, Memphis
Awarded: Silver Medal in Humor for “One Bad Apple”

Keely Hendricks, The Harpeth Hall School, Nashville
Awarded: Silver Medal in Poetry for “Fifth Generation; 21 or 22, He Didn’t Care; I Choose Fire; Minime; I Travel to Dig”
Awarded: Silver Medal in Critical Essay for “Blue Velvet: A Psycho-Surreal Thriller”

Henry Hicks, University School of Nashville, Nashville
Awarded: Silver Medal in Short Story for “In Eden”

Veronica Holmes, Colonial Middle School, Memphis
Awarded: Silver Medal in Poetry for “Vertigo”

Terry Johnson, University School of Jackson, Jackson
Awarded: Silver Medal in Digital Art for “Tucked Away”

Kimberly Kerr, Lausanne Collegiate School, Memphis
Awarded: Gold Medal in Ceramics & Glass for “Tear Box”

Ingrid Komisar, University School of Nashville, Nashville
Awarded: Silver Medal, American Visions Medal in Photography for “Knee Deep”

Tram Le, White Station High School, Memphis
Awarded: Silver Medal in Drawing and Illustration for “Grandma’s Silence”
Awarded: Gold Medal in Drawing and Illustration for “Distress”

Bryan Marchena, Hume Fogg High Academic Magnet, Nashville
Awarded: Gold Medal in Photography for “WHAT AM I DOING”

Jena Masler, White Station High School, Memphis
Awarded: Silver Medal in Drawing and Illustration for “Michaela’s Trip to Manhattan”

Pauline Mireles, Germantown High School, Germantown
Awarded: Silver Medal in Poetry for “Mother’s Love”

Alex Morgan, University School of Nashville, Nashville
Awarded: Silver Medal in Science Fiction/Fantasy for “St. George and the Interstellar Dragon”

Elizabeth Owen, Hutchison School, Memphis
Awarded: Silver Medal in Art Portfolio for “Shadows”

Sadie Paczosa, The Harpeth Hall School, Nashville
Awarded: Silver Medal in Photography for “Undercurrent”

Megan Peel, Homeschooled, Lakeland
Awarded: Silver Medal in Mixed Media for “Princess of the Past”

Destiny Phillips, Hillwood Comp High School, Nashville
Awarded: Silver Medal in Drawing and Illustration for “Star Projector”

Anna Schall, White Station High School, Memphis
Awarded: Silver Medal, American Visions Medal in Drawing and Illustration for “Apathy”

Kelly Short, The Harpeth Hall School, Nashville
Awarded : Silver Medal in Poetry for “For You, Dad”

Whitney Smith, Houston High School, Germantown
Awarded : Silver Medal in Drawing and Illustration for “Outback Excursion”

Jalynn Watson, Snowden School, Memphis
Awarded : Silver Medal in Dramatic Script for “First Stop: Nowhere.”

Sammi Weiss, Lausanne Collegiate School, Memphis
Awarded : Gold Medal in Drawing and Illustration for “Tyger, Tyger, Burning Bright”

Madison Wunderlich, Hutchison School, Memphis
Awarded : Silver Medal in Drawing and Illustration for “Bend Over”

Solbok Yi, Lausanne Collegiate School, Memphis
Awarded : Gold Medal in Drawing and Illustration for “The last 0.1 second”