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Students Earn 40 Regional Scholastic Art and Writing Awards
A total of 10 Gold Key awards, 14 Silver Key awards, and 16 Honorable Mentions were presented to CSW students across 12 different categories, making for a total of 40 awards. Gold Key winners will go on to be considered for national awards, which are announced later in the spring. Congrats to all of our student artists and writers!
Gold Key (Art):
Charlotte Case ’28, Mixed Media, Younger/Older Trash Self Portrait
Josephine Chao ’27, Photography, Centering Souls
Josephine Chao ’27, Fashion, Stitched Hearts
Josephine Chao ’27, Photography, Moving Forward
Avalon Jellinek ’28, Photography, “No More Dreaming of the Dead as of Death Itself”
Lily Matthews ’26, Photography, Coleman
Giuliana Nacco ’26, Photography, Sunlight Through Vines
Ella Sharma ’26, Portfolio Category (Art), Inner Realms
Mckenna Zhang ’27, Photography, Rainy Mood
Abraham Zinn-Lippard ’26, Sculpture, Restoration
Silver Key (Art):
Josephine Chao ’27, Photography, Intersecting Stories
Josephine Chao ’27, Digital Painting, Drawing & Collage, Painting Through Generations
Parker Goldinger ’26, Drawing, “Disconnect”
Bee Jacobs ’26, Experimental Photography, Pisces
Katherine Lau ’26, Portfolio Category (Art), She, Her, Her’s
Ella Sharma ’26, Drawing, The Fog: Self Portrait
Andrew Thomson ’26, Photography, Untitled
Rita Wang ’29, Photography, Orchid
Grace Zhao ’27, Photography, Amiable
Honorable Mention (Art):
Ziyu Chen ’26, Photography, Congratulations
Ziyu Chen ’26, Photography, Moving Out
Bee Jacobs ’26, Experimental Photography, Marina Dreaming
Bee Jacobs ’26, Experimental Photography, Trees in Tin
Flynn Kling ’27, Drawing, Cloudscapes No.1
Flynn Kling ’27, Drawing, Cloudscapes No.2
Aster Kris ’29, Photography, Prism
Lily Matthews ’29, Photography, Dandelion
Ella Sharma ’26, Drawing, Contemplation in Wood Grain: Self Portrait
Asper Shkolnik ’28, Painting, Disvisualization
Doria Wang ’29, Sculpture, Cardboard Self-Portrait
Rita Wang ’29, Photography, Onions
Silver Key (Writing):
John Bates ’26, Short Story, Whistleblower
Zoe Celimli ’27, Personal Essay & Memoir, Letting Go of Perfection
Woody Giroux ’27, Short Story, A Harm that Abides: Segregation, Housing Policy, and Racial Inequality in American Education
Sophia Polyak ’26, Short Story, In a Silent Room
Ada Sparks Mendez ’26, Short Story, A Bitter Aftertaste
Honorable Mention (Writing):
Anyu Chen ’27, Short Story, Small Things That Break
Amira Jeffrey ’28, Poetry, Putbacktogether
Amira Jeffrey ’28, Poetry, The Masked Singer
Rita Wang ’29, Poetry, Hands of Blue
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.