2010 Boston Globe Scholastic Art Award Winners

Landmark High School students received an impressive 23 Gold and Silver Keys and Honorable Mentions from the 2010 Boston Globe Scholastic Art Awards. In Massachusetts, Landmark is the most decorated of all the private schools and is ranked in the top six schools overall. In its 86th year, the national competition is the longest running, most prestigious recognition program for teen artists and writers in the United States.

Landmark High School students were recognized with five Gold Key Awards, which will be entered in to the national competition, 11 Silver Keys, and seven Honorable Mentions.  This year, 6,500 individual and 500 portfolio submissions were made from students grades 7 - 12 from public, private, and parochial schools in Massachusetts. An estimated 100,000 submissions are made to the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards nation wide. At both the regional and national levels, entries are blind judged by an esteemed jury of professional artists and writers ranging from fine and multimedia artists to poets and novelists.

“To be able to create something is an amazing feeling, but to be recognized and rewarded is an indescribable feeling.” said Landmark senior Sarah Streck. “Coping with the constant struggles of my learning disabilities, I've never achieved such successes in academic areas; my skills as an artist help me to share a strong and independent part of myself. Winning the two Gold Keys was like having the world recognize me for the first time.”

“It is very exciting and affirming for our students to have been recognized by the Boston Globe Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Their work was judged against hundreds of other talented students from all over the state and being awarded a Gold or Silver Key publicly acknowledges their effort and talent as some of the most outstanding in Massachusetts. The ultimate pay off was not just in public recognition, but in confidence, said Beth Jamieson,” Head of Landmark High School’s Art Department.

Student winners from Massachusetts will be hosted to a dinner and awards ceremony on Sunday, February 14, 2010 and the art and writing will be exhibited publicly in the Transportation Building in Boston from February 1 – March 19, 2010.

Landmark School’s five Gold Key winners’ work will advance to a national competition and be included in a public exhibition in New York City in June 2010.

Gold Key Awardees:
Kiley Davis, Palmer Long, Jessica Reagan, Sarah Streck (2)

Silver Key Awardees:
Eden Bellow, Johnny Benevento, Morgan Brennan, Ariadne Colliard, Kiley Davis, Christopher Hatch, Wesley Lickus, Merriweather McCarty, Haley McWaters (2), Keith Wilkens

Honorable Mention Awards:
Jessica DiGiovanni (3), Lena Gold, Merriweather McCarty, Katelyn Ming, Eliza Woodworth

Gold Key Awardees

K. Davis Printmaking Graveyard 

P. Long Drawing Self Portrait

J. Reagan Photography Claire

S. Streck Drawing Self Portrait Stripes

S. Streck Drawing Self Portrait

Silver Key Awardees

E. Bellow Photography Mother Triptych

J. Benevento Printmaking Tractor

M. Brennan Painting Sink

A. Colliard Photography Jellyfish

K. Davis Drawing Perfume

C. Hatch Painting Oliver

W. Lickus Photography Lighthouse

M. McCarty Drawing Self Portrait Hands

H. McWaters Drawing Self Portrait

H. McWaters Painting Refridgerator

K. Wilkens Sculpture Tree

Honorable Mention

J. DiGiovanni Photography Catherine

 J. DiGiovanni Photography Sisters

J. DiGiovanni Photography Twins

L. Gold Drawing Self Portrait

M. McCarty Drawing Self Portrait Skull

K. Ming Printmaking Animal Triptych

E. Woodworth Drawing Mirror