Twenty One APS Students Receive National Scholastic Art Awards

More than 100,000 teens from across the country and Canada entered more than 260,000 works of art and writing to the 2024 Scholastic Awards. Nearly 2,000 works received National Medals this year.

This year’s Arlington Public Schools national award recipients are:

Art Awards – American Visions Medal

• Hannah Bigley: “Survival of the Fittest” Yorktown, Grade 12, Monica Stroik

Art Awards – Portfolio Gold Medalist

• Lia Musser: “Movement of the Earth” Yorktown, Grade 12, Christine Bolon

Art Awards – Gold Medalist

• Allen Ballard: “This Is My Energy” Wakefield, Grade 12, Jina Davidson
• Hannah Bigley: “Survival of the Fittest” Yorktown, Grade 12, Monica Stroik
• Anar Gantulga: “Scuba dining” Wakefield, Grade 12, Nancy Flores
• Niyah Wertz: “Pass Out“ Wakefield, Grade 12, Susi Brittain

Art Awards – Silver Medalist

• Ian Alcorn: “Smoking Signs” Wakefield, Grade 11, Jina Davidson
• Diana Anaya: “Mortua Rosa” Wakefield, Grade 10, Susi Brittain
• Hannah Bigley: “Don’t Patronize Me” Yorktown, Grade 12, Monica Stroik
• Camila Cabero: “Family Dinner” Washington-Liberty, Grade 12, Hiromi Isobe
• Syd DeWitt: “Life Among Death” Wakefield, Grade 11, Nancy Flores
• Melanie Dominguez Felix: “x marks the spot” Wakefield, Grade 12, Jina Davidson
• Ella Haynes: “Jade Bracelet” Yorktown, Grade 12, Monica Stroik
• Katie King: “Wrapped Contrast” Yorktown, Grade 12, Christine Bolon
• Essence Mays: “Chinese Lotus Bottle” Wakefield, Grade 9, Jeff Pabotoy
• Connor Moore: “Solitude” Wakefield, Grade 11, Jina Davidson
• Tomas Moran Uriona: “Garden Vase” Washington-Liberty, Grade 9, Teonta Aviles
• Jayden Pena: “Right Hook” Wakefield, Grade 10, Jina Davidson
• Jamie Riggs: “Fish Food” H-B Woodlawn Secondary, Grade 10, Monica Stroik
• Roya Stevenson: “A Witches Hut” Swanson Middle School, Grade 8, Maria Burke
• Lynx Sword: “Century Vase” Yorktown, Grade 11, Christine Bolon
• Will Taylor: “Long Live Braylon” Yorktown, Grade 11, Erika Lucas
• Niyah Wertz: “Fight Or Flight” Wakefield, Grade 12, Susi Brittain
• Caius Worrell “Glacial Retreat” Yorktown, Grade 12, Christine Bolon

Art Awards – Portfolio Honorable Mention Medalist

• Niyah Wertz: “Iyoā: Beauty and Solitude in a Quiet World” Wakefield, Grade 12, Susi Brittain

The program, currently in its 101st year, is a national program recognizing outstanding creativity in teens and offers scholarship opportunities for graduating high school seniors. Teens in grades 7-12 can apply in 29 categories of art and writing for the chance to earn scholarships and have their works exhibited or published. The national non-profit organization that presents the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards will honor students at an online gala celebration in July. Selected award recipients and high school seniors recognized with top honors will have their art exhibited at Parsons the New School for Design in New York.

For more information, contact the Arts Education Office at 703-228-6299.