Woodbury High School Artists Earn Minnesota Scholastic Art Awards

From Woodbury High School

Woodbury High School artists earned 49 Minnesota Scholastic Art Awards (MSAA) in the 2012 contest.

That is the largest number of MSAA awards ever given to any District 833 school program.

Twenty-four students earned those awards. The MSAA is a statewide regional affiliation of the National Scholastic Art Awards program and recognizes many of our state’s most creative teenagers. It’s open to all Minnesota students in grades 7 through 12 and over 206,000 projects from around the state were entered in this competition.

St. Paul’s College of Visual Arts will host an exhibit of the winning artwork from Feb. 7 through March 3.

All but six of the WHS students are part of the WHS AP Art Program.

There are three levels of awards: the Gold Key is awarded for excellence, and digital images of these pieces will continue on to the National Competition in New York; the Silver Key is awarded for high honors and Honorable Mention is for honors. Several WHS students received multiple awards.

For a Portfolio of eight works of art (judges had to feel all work met this standard): Gold Keys: Kayla Doherty and Heather Shumaker, Silver Keys: Grant Anderson, Leah Williams and Jacqueline Younggren and Honorable Mention: Nicole Gutzmann.

For individual works of art:

Gold Keys: Kayla Doherty, Heather Hatful (2), Meagan Kaufenberg , Katie Molnau and Eddie Rudie.

Silver Keys: Omotayo Famodu, Erin Griffin, Meagan Kaufenberg (2), Sarah Masood (2), Kinsey Philips, Nuel Pilien (2), Eddie Rudie (2), Carlie Volbrecht, Leah Williams, Jacqueline Younggren, and Rachel Younggren.

Honorable Mention: Madeline Collins, Anthony Doreo, Omotayo Famodu (2), Max Golden, Erin Griffin, Nicole Gutzmann, Brenton Holiday, Meagan Kaufenberg(2), Mike Lund, Marielle Mateo, Ellen O'Connell (5), Nuel Pilien, Eddie Rudie, Leah Williams (2), and Jacqueline Younggren

The WHS Art Department is extremely proud of these hardworking and talented artists. Congratulations artists!