Marist is proud to share that two Marist students have received National Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Erin Julian ’23 received an impressive ten National Scholastic Art Awards from a collection of work from her Advanced Placement portfolio and work she created on her own. Kayleigh O’Brien ’23, who is a student in the creative writing honors course, received two National Scholastic Writing Awards.
Erin received awards in the Digital Art category, the Photography category, and the Art Portfolio category. These honors include 3 Gold Key Awards, 2 Silver Key Awards, and 5 Honorable Mentions.
Art Portfolio – Nature’s Magic – Honorable Mention
Digital Art – Consciousness – Silver Key
Digital Art – Draiochta – Honorable Mention
Digital Art – If Buddha Was A Sapphire Triptych – Gold Key
Digital Art – Nonni’s Tree – Honorable Mention
Digital Art – Self-Pixel – Silver Key
Digital Art – Victorian Dream – Gold Key
Photography – Between the Clouds – Honorable Mention
Photography – Broken – Honorable Mention
Photography – Enchanted – Gold Key
At Marist, Erin has been a student in Advanced Placement 2-D, Advanced Placement studio art, graphic design 1, and photography 1 and 2. She is a repeat winner and last year received 3 awards! You can read more about those awards here.
Congratulations, Erin!
Kayleigh received two awards, one in the Science Fiction & Fantasy category and one in the Short Story category.
Science Fiction & Fantasy – “You lie an awful lot for someone with so much to lose.” – Honorable Mention
Synopsis: After putting her young son to bed, an officer working for an extremely cryptic organization is faced with the results of her organization’s experiment gone wrong and now out for vengeance.
Short Story – “It’s not real. She’s not real.” – Honorable Mention
Synopsis: Upon being dosed with anesthesia and told to “think of home,” a boy experiences a brief moment from the past that he can no longer experience.
Congratulations, Kayleigh!
About the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards
Founded in 1923, the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards are the nation’s longest-running, most prestigious educational initiative supporting student achievement in the visual and literary arts. The program has an impressive legacy of being the first to acknowledge creative talent and is today’s largest source of scholarships for creative teens.
The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards recognize student achievement in the visual and literary arts in 28 categories, including drawing and illustration, photography, flash fiction, poetry, film and animation, journalism, and more. Since the program’s founding in 1923, the Awards have fostered the creativity and talent of millions of students, including renowned alumni who have gone on to become leaders in their fields, including Amanda Gorman, Tschabalala Self, Stephen King, Kay WalkingStick, Charles White, Joyce Carol Oates, and Andy Warhol.
An Award signifies to parents, teachers, the community, and colleges that a student is an accomplished artist or writer. The Awards offer opportunities for creative teens to earn recognition, exhibition, publication, and scholarships. Each work of art and writing is blindly adjudicated, first locally through the more than 100 affiliates of the Alliance, and then nationally by panels of judges comprised of renowned artists, authors, educators and industry experts. Works are judged on originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice.
We look forward to seeing more incredible work from Erin and Kayleigh.
