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Scholastic Art Award Winners 2023

ESM Art Department students brought home 70 awards from the 2023 CNY Scholastic Art Awards. Our students earned 3 special awards, 17 Gold Keys, 22 Silver Keys and 28 Honorable Mentions.

Kailee Clark earned the American Visions Award in Photography, recognizing the Best of Show from all Gold Key photography. The piece titled Ophelia also earned Kailee the Ron Hellmann Photography Award for Best Senior High Photo.

Sophia Ferns earned the American Visions Award in Drawing & Illustration, recognizing the Best of Show from all Gold Key drawing & illustration winners, for her piece titled Different Perspective. 

All Gold Key artwork will go on to compete at the national level. The list of ESM award winners is below. Visit our facebook page for photo of each wining piece (link). There will be 1,350 of the art pieces on display to the public in the Whitney Building at Onondaga Community College now through March 4. The Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse will also display select works, from March 11 through April 9.

Students from 14 counties and more than 90 CNY schools submitted more than 4,000 pieces and 102 portfolio entries. A panel of judges, made up of professional artists, educators and photographers, judged the pieces and selected 1,155 works for Gold Key, Silver Key and honorable mention awards.

ESM’s middle and high school participating art teachers include Todd Bachta, Matthew Cincotta, Kathleen Ehrlich, Audrey Heller and Jessica Pilowa. A special awards ceremony was held Jan. 17 at OCC. The 2023 CNY Scholastic Art Awards are sponsored by M&T Bank and hosted by Onondaga Community College.
 
Name Gr Award Category Title of Piece
Andrews, Emily 11 Hon. Mention Ceramics & Glass Detatch
Backus, Michael 11 Hon. Mention Drawing & Illustration Optimus Prime
Benhassen, Nadia 12 Silver Key Mixed Media Natural Order
Benhassen, Nadia 12 Silver Key Art Portfolio Purveyor of Lies
Benhassen, Nadia 12 Hon. Mention Ceramics & Glass Abstraction
BenHassen, Sonya 10 Silver Key Ceramics & Glass Heart of the Ocean
Bennink, Rachel 12 Gold Key Digital Art Sightings
Carr, Madeline 8 Silver Key Photography Luca
Chmura, Alina 11 Silver Key Drawing & Illustration Lose Yourself
Clark, Kailee 12 Gold Key Photography Ophelia
Clark, Kailee 12 Ron Hellmann Photgraphy Award:Best Senior High Photo Photography Ophelia
Clark, Kailee 12 American Visions Award Photography Ophelia
Clark, Kailee 12 Hon. Mention Photography Holding up
Clark, Kailee 12 Silver Key Art Portfolio Eclipsed
Coolbeth, Jordan 11 Silver Key Digital Art Magic Room
De-souza, Clara 12 Hon. Mention Ceramics & Glass The Kracken
Defio, Katie 10 Gold Key Drawing & Illustration unt
Downs, Mak 10 Silver Key Drawing & Illustration Rubber Duckies
Ferns, Sophia 10 Gold Key Drawing & Illustration Different Perspective
Ferns, Sophia 10 American Visions Award Drawing & Illustration Different Perspective
Ferns, Sophia 10 Gold Key Drawing & Illustration My Friend
Ferns, Sophia 11 Gold Key Drawing & Illustration Doubled
Foster, Ella 10 Hon. Mention Painting This Isn't About You.
Gaskins, Eli 11 Hon. Mention Digital Art Avery
Gomon, Ian 9 Hon. Mention Drawing & Illustration Orange Radiance
Greis, Madeline 11 Gold Key Drawing & Illustration Up Close
Greis, Madeline 11 Hon. Mention Drawing & Illustration Justice Undone
Greis, Madeline 11 Hon. Mention Drawing & Illustration Masked
Henry, Arabella 9 Silver Key Painting Still Moment
Hughes, Emily 9 Silver Key Ceramics & Glass Isolation
Hunt, Henry 8 Hon. Mention Photography Green Lakes
Huyck, Ryan 8 Hon. Mention Photography Loki's Journey
Johnson, Kyra 12 Silver Key Mixed Media Entangle My Sanity
Kline, Mykayda 11 Silver Key Drawing & Illustration Red Clover
LaGrow, Olivia 10 Gold Key Drawing & Illustration Poodle
LaGrow, Olivia 10 Gold Key Painting Reflections
LaGrow, Olivia 10 Gold Key Drawing & Illustration Talulah
Mere, Zaynah 10 Hon. Mention Drawing & Illustration The Phone
Merkel, Faith 8 Silver Key Photography Sunny Day
Mesic, Anela 10 Silver Key Drawing & Illustration Squirrel on tree
Mesic, Anela 11 Silver Key Drawing & Illustration Burnt Out
Michael, Christopher 12 Gold Key Digital Art 04.07.05
Millet, Alyssa 9 Gold Key Painting Silent Thoughts
Millet, Alyssa 10 Hon. Mention Drawing & Illustration Breaking Point
Myers, Natalie 8 Hon. Mention Painting Gus
Needle, Aaron 11 Silver Key Photography Levitation
Peterson, Natalie 11 Silver Key Ceramics & Glass Deep See Treasure
Ridley, Samara 12 Gold Key Digital Art Ask For Help
Rojek, Joshua 9 Silver Key Drawing & Illustration Nuts & Bolts
Roux, Elliot 9 Hon. Mention Drawing & Illustration Penny
Scheftic, Cassidy 9 Hon. Mention Ceramics & Glass Tsunami Waves
Scofield, Eire 8 Hon. Mention Painting Creepy Crawlies
Scofield, Eire 8 Hon. Mention Mixed Media Needles
Scofield, Eire 8 Silver Key Printmaking Lady in Red
Seargent, Rebecca 11 Gold Key Digital Art Mother Nature
Seargent, Rebecca 11 Silver Key Photography Winter Wonderland
Shatrau, Zoe 9 Gold Key Drawing & Illustration Blackberry
Shatrau, Zoe 10 Hon. Mention Drawing & Illustration Body Dysmorphia
Shaughnessy, Gigi 11 Gold Key Drawing & Illustration I Am
Shaughnessy, Gigi 11 Hon. Mention Drawing & Illustration Lonely
Shaughnessy, Gigi 11 Silver Key Drawing & Illustration Night Terror
Stevenson, Bryan 12 Hon. Mention Ceramics & Glass Perpetual Tea
Venditti, Braiden 12 Hon. Mention Ceramics & Glass Stacked
Warner, Brianna 12 Hon. Mention Printmaking Defiance
Warner, Brianna 12 Hon. Mention Art Portfolio Discomfort, Comfort, Strength
Warner, Brianna 12 Hon. Mention Drawing & Illustration Doll Face
Warner, Brianna 12 Silver Key Drawing & Illustration Mavie
Warner, Daly 10 Hon. Mention Painting Beauty in Decay
Williams, Megan 11 Hon. Mention Ceramics & Glass The Lantern of Femininity
Wilson, Suzain 12 Gold Key Photography Hidden Gem