Arlington Students Win 15 Nat'l Scholastic Art & Writing Awards

ARLINGTON, VA — Arlington students recently won 15 National Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, Arlington Public Schools announced Friday.

According to the school district, more than 100,000 teens from across the country and Canada entered more than 260,000 works of art and writing to the 2022 Scholastic Awards.

Nearly 2,000 works received National Medals this year, school officials said.

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

Art Awards – Gold Medalist

• Wakefield High School, Grade 11, Marceline Castrillon: “Lachrymarum” (Photography)
• Yorktown High School, Grade 12, Roman Diascro: “Untitled” (Digital Art)
• Wakefield High School, Katerine Velasquez: “Growing up in front of people’s eyes is a weird thing.” (Painting)

Art Awards – Portfolio Silver Medalist

• Washington-Liberty High School, Grade 12, Morgan Andrews: “My Collection of Creatures”
• Wakefield High School, Grade 12, Mason Taylor: “Black People Just Being Black”

Art Awards – Silver Medalist

• Yorktown High School, Grade 11, Celeste Boyer: “Holy Grail” (Mixed Media)
• Yorktown High School, Grade 9, Mary Frances Dempsey: “Image” (Comic Art)
• Yorktown High School, Grade 12, Roman Diascro: “Panic” (Digital Art)
• Washington-Liberty High School, Grade 12, Rachel Hocker: “Help!” (Photography)
• Washington-Liberty High School, Grade 11, Anne-Sophie Kagan: “Fade to White” (Printmaking)
• Washington-Liberty High School, Grade 12, Madeleine Kenny: “Sub Rosa” (Painting)
• Yorktown High School, Grade 11, Spencer Strebe: “Makeup” (Photography)

• Yorktown High School, Grade 12, Katie Kennedy: “Hiking”
• Yorktown High School, Grade 12, Evelyn Kresse: “You are Going to Die”

• Wakefield High School, Grade 11, Marceline Castrillon: “Lachrymarum” (Photography)

To view artwork, visit the online galleries. The Regional Scholastic Art Award Exhibit is currently on display at Central Library through Monday.

The program, currently in its 99th 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 in June, at a gala celebration at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

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.

Selections from The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards are published in the National Catalog, Best Teen Writing, and Spark (anthology of work by middle school students), which are distributed free of charge to schools and libraries nationwide.