2025 Scholastic Art Awards
A total of 11 Gold Key awards, 11 Silver Key awards, and 20 Honorable Mentions were presented to CSW students across 10 different categories, making for a total of 42 Art and Scholastic Awards. Gold Key winners will go on to be considered for national awards, which are announced later in the spring.
GOLD KEYS
Jinrong Chu, Portfolio (Art), Blueprints to Reality
Gloria Miao, Sculpture, Glimpse Desires
Dana Howell, Photography, Kam
Daisy Leng, Fashion, Shell-ter
Jinrong Chu, Fashion, Shimmering Tides
Gloria Miao, Painting, Sunlight in Motion
Gloria Miao, Painting, Under the Tree
SILVER KEYS
Sarah Beth Owens, Painting, Abstracted Chicken and Waterfall
Arya Yang, Painting, Allure
Arya Yang, Portfolio (Art), Essence
Jinrong Chu, Painting, Gaze
Jinrong Chu, Painting, Hurry Through the Dusk
Gloria Miao, Sculpture, Scarcity and Opulence
Gloria Miao, Sculpture, Spinning Wheel
HONORABLE MENTION
GOLD KEYS
Jinrong Chu, Portfolio (Art), Blueprints to Reality
Gloria Miao, Sculpture, Glimpse Desires
Dana Howell, Photography, Kam
Daisy Leng, Fashion, Shell-ter
Jinrong Chu, Fashion, Shimmering Tides
Gloria Miao, Painting, Sunlight in Motion
Gloria Miao, Painting, Under the Tree
SILVER KEYS
Sarah Beth Owens, Painting, Abstracted Chicken and Waterfall
Arya Yang, Painting, Allure
Arya Yang, Portfolio (Art), Essence
Jinrong Chu, Painting, Gaze
Jinrong Chu, Painting, Hurry Through the Dusk
Gloria Miao, Sculpture, Scarcity and Opulence
Gloria Miao, Sculpture, Spinning Wheel
HONORABLE MENTION
Gloria Miao, Drawing & Illustration, Argument at the Ice Rink
Ella Sharma, Fashion, Cloud Dress
Jinrong Chu, Fashion, Cradle
Arya Yang, Painting, Figure Painting
Ella Meshoulam, Photography, Friends
Reese Rosenfeld, Fashion, Future Evolution
Dingjia Xiao, Portfolio (Art), Home
Nia Kyte-Zable, Fashion, I Do Manual Labor
Owen Zinn-Lippard, Sculpture, Lure Allure
Ella Sharma, Painting, Plant Biology [diptich]
Jinrong Chu, Fashion,, Rebuilding the Norm
Katherine Lau, Painting, Saint Petersburg's Glow
Winter Lynn, Fashion, Skin Dress
Abraham Zinn-Lippard, Sculpture, The Weight of a Single Tear
Sophia Polyak, Drawing & Illustration, Trifecta
Ella Sharma, Fashion, Cloud Dress
Jinrong Chu, Fashion, Cradle
Arya Yang, Painting, Figure Painting
Ella Meshoulam, Photography, Friends
Reese Rosenfeld, Fashion, Future Evolution
Dingjia Xiao, Portfolio (Art), Home
Nia Kyte-Zable, Fashion, I Do Manual Labor
Owen Zinn-Lippard, Sculpture, Lure Allure
Ella Sharma, Painting, Plant Biology [diptich]
Jinrong Chu, Fashion,, Rebuilding the Norm
Katherine Lau, Painting, Saint Petersburg's Glow
Winter Lynn, Fashion, Skin Dress
Abraham Zinn-Lippard, Sculpture, The Weight of a Single Tear
Sophia Polyak, Drawing & Illustration, Trifecta
GOLD KEY RECIPIENTS
SILVER KEY RECIPIENTS
HONORABLE MENTIONS
2025 Scholastic Writing Awards
Gold Key
- Suri Kautz for for Personal Essay & Memoir: "Lessons in Unconditional Love Taught By my Sister With a Disability"
- Juntao Ye for Critical Essay: "From Opportunity to Exclusion: The Impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act on Immigrant Communities"
Silver Key
- Symona Baiatian for Personal Essay & Memoir: "Homeland"
- Ella Meshoulam for Poetry: "Ugly Parts"
- Owen Ward for Personal Essay & Memoir: "Embracing Dyslexia: Discovering My Unique Path Of Learning"
- Zoe Zuloaga for Journalism: "Unveiling the World of Period Products; The Destructive Behavior of Unregulation and Misrepresentation Writing"
Honorable Mention
- Suri Kautz for Journalism: "An Epidemic of Underfueling & Overtraining has Plagued America's Female Runners And it is a Direct Result of Sexism"
- Nia Kyte-Zable for Poetry" "arm tubes"
- Max Lawton for Journalism: "How the Tobacco Industry Aggressively Advertised and Hooked Black Communities on Menthol Cigarettes, and Why Black Politicians Won't Ban Them"
- Ella Meshoulam for Poetry: "ewe and i"
- Iris Wolfe for Poetry: "A Child's Empire"
CSW—a gender-inclusive day and boarding school for grades 9-12—is a national leader in progressive education. We live out our values of inquiry-based learning, student agency, and embracing diverse perspectives in every aspect of our student experience. Young people come to CSW to learn how to learn and then put what they learn into action—essential skills they carry into their futures as doers, makers, innovators, leaders, and exceptional humans who do meaningful work in the world.