Govs Students Win 76 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards

Govs Students Win 76 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards

Govs arts and writing students have once again received numerous titles and recognition this year in the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, bringing home a record 76 awards. Especially impressive was the Best In Category award that Nancy Xie ‘21 earned for her ceramics work — one of the highest honors at the regional level.

Twenty-six Govs art students won 44 awards in the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards competition including 12 Gold Keys, 15 Silver Keys, and 17 Honorable Mentions. From Massachusetts alone, there were 2,732 writing submissions, which includes 30 students from Govs who submitted 81 works, and 15 of them won awards for a total of 32 works!

"The Forgotten Civilization" by Nancy Xie '21 - Gold Key - Best in Category - Ceramics & Glass

Also impressive were the three awards that our students won for their Portfolio work, which is considered the most advanced level of art in the competition. 

To view all of the award-winning artwork, click here.
 

Art Award Winners:

Best in Category

Nancy Xie ‘21 - Ceramics

Gold Key Winners

Lauren Brown ‘23 - Photography

Bimba ‘21 - Art Portfolio

Alex Haas ‘21 - Photography

Alex Haas ‘21 - Photography

Jackson Hurd-Messom ‘22 - Photography

Teddy Hwang ‘22 - Digital Art

Brady Lawlor ‘21 - Ceramics

Will Moriarty ‘22 - Photography

Emily Storer ‘22 - Ceramics

Tiffany Touchette ‘23 - Photography

Nancy Xie ‘21 - Ceramics

 

"Chamber of Rumination" by Alex Haas '21 - Gold Key - Photography

 

Silver Key Winners

Bimba ‘21 - Photography

Jackson Hurd-Messom ‘22 - Photography

Teddy Hwang ‘22 - Design

Teddy Hwang ‘22 - Mixed Media

Teddy Hwang ‘22 - Painting

Rayha Karanth ‘22 - Photography

Leo Lin ‘21 - Film & Animation

Leo Lin ‘21 - Photography

Jacob Liu ‘22 - Photography

Kate MacKeen ‘23 - Photography

Bach Pham ‘22 - Photography

Emma Thomas ‘22 - Painting

Allen Wang ‘22 - Drawing & Illustration

Judy Wang ‘23 - Painting

Nancy Xie ‘21 - Art Portfolio

 

"A Drum Hanging On The Wall" by Allen Wang '22 - Silver Key - Drawing & Illustration

 

Honorable Mentions

Abby Boyko ‘22 - Photography

Lindsey Brown ‘23 - Photography

Bimba ‘21 - Design

Hana Dence ‘22 - Digital Art

Maura Fiorenza ‘22 - Photography

Teddy Hwang ‘22 - Drawing & Illustration

Hollen Knoell ‘21 - Art Portfolio

Hollen Knoell ‘21 - Photography

Hollen Knoell ‘21 - Photography

Hollen Knoell ‘21 - Photography

Jacob Liu ‘22 - Photography

Eliana Mlawski ‘22 - Ceramics

David Moriarty ‘22 - Photography

Allen Wang ‘22 - Drawing & Illustration

Judy Wang ‘23 - Painting

Judy Wang ‘23 - Painting

Simon Zhao ‘24 - Photography

 

"Still Fighting" by Jacob Liu '22 - Honorable Mention - Photography

 

Writing Award Winners:

Gold Key Winners

Jessica Choe ‘22 - Poetry “Kimchi”

Jessica Choe ‘22 - Poetry “Orange Sestina”

Jessica Choe ‘22 - Critical Essay “Selling of Sex and Women's Rights”

Eliana Mlawski ‘22 - Poetry “11 Calle Goya”

Piper Moulton ‘23 - Personal Essay & Memoir “The Thief of Tides”

Tianyi Shen ‘23 - Short Story “Emerald Love”

Hexuan Wang ‘23 - Poetry “Until Satisfaction”

Hexuan Wang ‘23 - Critical Essay “Girls Just Want to Have Fun: Baldung, Durer, and their Witches”.

 

Silver Key Winners

Bimba ‘21 - Personal Essay & Memoir “Sketchbooks”

Brand Leng ‘22 - Personal Essay & Memoir “Red and Black”

Eliana Mlawski ‘22 - Personal Essay & Memoir “My Hyphenated Asian-American Existence”

Eliana Mlawski ‘22 - Short Story “For When Winter Comes”

Katie Riley ‘22 - Personal Essay & Memoir “Finding My Flag”

Tianyi Shen ‘23 - Poetry “Sha Ma Te”

Hexuan Wang ‘23 - Flash Fiction “Dangling Feet”

 

Honorable Mention

Sophia Bochert ‘23 - Poetry “Parakeet”

Bimba ‘21 - Critical Essay “Cassius & Brutus: Self-Portraits Through Rhetoric”

Bimba ‘21 - Critical Essay “Three's a Charm: A Trio of Suicides”

Bimba ‘21 - Personal Essay & Memoir “Out of the Sawdust”

Jana Choe ‘23 - Short Story “When the Truth is Hidden Behind the Mask”

Jessica Choe ‘22 - Journalism “Tyranny of the Virus: A Dilemma”

Isabel Eldredge ‘22 - Personal Essay & Memoir “Letter to My Daughter”

Jiarong Li ‘23 - Poetry “Paean to a Teenage Punk”

Eliana Mlawski ‘22 - Poetry “Adopted Sestina”

Eliana Mlawski ‘22 - Critical Essay “Standard to a Fault”

Eliana Mlawski ‘22 - Poetry “When the World Goes Dark”

Eliana Mlawski ‘22 - Poetry “Lessons”

Ella Pike ‘22 - Poetry “Our American Body: The Wound of Inequality”

Zeyu Qi ‘22 - Science Fiction & Fantasy “Another Place, Another Time”

Tianyi Shen ‘23 - Short Story “Rice”

Tianyi Shen ’23 - Poetry “Undisguised”

Aijia Zhang ‘24 - Personal Essay & Memoir “Like a Chameleon: Recollections of an International Student”