Arts Awards and Accolades

This winter, seven Upper School students were honored with 20 recognitions from the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards by the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers!

Priyanka Acharya ’23: Gold Key for “Alone” (Visual Art); Gold Key for “Evolution of Change” (Three-Dimensional Visual Art); Gold Key for “Generational Change” (Visual Art); Silver Key for “Family Line”(Visual Art)

Chloe Baker ’23: Gold Key for “Striving in the Souls of Black Folk: Resisting Humanization” (Critical Essay);Honorable Mention for “Ending an Epic: What Modern Retellings of The Odyssey Get Right” (Critical Essay); Honorable Mention for “Disgust, Desire, and the Transfeminine Body” (Critical Essay); Honorable Mention for “Ouroboros” (Flash Fiction); Honorable Mention for “Pondscum” (Science Fiction and Fantasy)

Coco Chen ’25: Honorable Mention for “May God bless you” (Digital Art)

Peishan Huang ’24: Gold Keyfor “Enemy” (Short Story); Gold Key for “Jiajia” (Short Story)

Eric Li ’24: Gold Key for “Surveillance” (Photography);Silver Key for “Forgotten Home” (Photography);Silver Key for “Mother” (Photography);Silver Key for “The Builder” (Photography);Honorable Mention for “Ferry Terminal” (Photography); Honorable Mention for “Moon at Dawn” (Photography)

Jacob Liu ’25: Honorable Mention for “An Elegy of Home” (Poetry)

Tina Zhu ’25: Gold Key for “self-portrait” (Visual Art)

In other Upper School visual and performing arts news, carved ceramic tiles by Karah Blunt ’25 were selected by the National K-12 Ceramic Exhibition out of 1,300 entries nationwide, and percussionist Milo Salvucci ’23 and flutist Ella Cook ’24 ranked as the top and second musicians respectively in our district of the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association Honors Festival. They joined the District Band Festival with tubist Solveig-Michael Daniels ’23. Join us in congratulation these talented artists, writers, and musicians!