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University School Students Win National Scholastic & Congressional Art Awards
University School of NSU’s art students recently won awards in the National Scholastic Gold and Silver Key competition. Award winners will be honored at a June 1 awards ceremony to be held at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
In addition, the winning Gold Key pieces will be on display at the prestigious Parsons The New School for Design – Design Center from June 1 to 16. As part of the country’s largest student art competition, more than 200,000 entries resulted in 13,000 top regional honors. From here, 1,500 received national medals and 300 Gold Key works were chosen for the national exhibition.
University School of NSU National Gold Key Scholastic Art Winners include:
• Rori Kotch (Photography, Modification);
• Emily Kopas (Ceramics, Family);
• Gabi Lauzier (Jewelry, Fertility Mantle);
• Maya Renaud (Mixed Media, A Fisherman’s Tale); and
• Dylan Weitzman (Ceramics, Growing Coral).
University School of NSU National Silver Key Scholastic Art Winners include:
• Abigail Tam (2 awards – Drawings, American Beauty? and Death’s Second Self);
• Evy Sands (Painting, Traumatized); and
• Middle School student Sophia Pozsonyiova (Photography, Flower).
University School of NSU’s Congressional Art Winner is Evy Sands with Kaela Fennell-Chin recognized as 10th grade Honorable Mention.
Evy’s painting will hang in the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. for a year.