CSW Students Win Scholastic Art Awards

By Douglas Hamilton-Grenham '12

Students from the Cambridge School of Weston have been awarded a total of 45 awards for the 2011 Boston Globe Scholastic Art Awards competition.

Six of these students - Hardy Hill '11, Stefan Kaiter-Snyder '11, Yangwoo Kim '11, Travis Law '11, Dahea Lee '11 and Sophia Oldsman '11 - were awarded Gold Keys for their portfolios in art and photo.

Rebecca Cumberbatch '13, Mikaela Joyce '12, Jaehyouk Lee '12, Yi-Wen Liu '12 and Kirin Schmit '11 were given the Gold Key for their individual artwork. Tilly Alexander '12, Gisele Aubin '11, Charlotte Fairless '11, Noah Grossman '14, Sarah Hertel-Fernandez '12, Ellie Jackson '12, Will Quinn '11, Kieran Teare-Thomas '13 and Joshua Zaleznik '12 received Silver Keys for their artwork. Plus, an additional 25 honorable mentions were awarded to students for their work.

Gold and Silver Key recipients will be recognized at an awards ceremony at John Hancock Hall in Boston on March 6. The artwork of Gold and Silver Key winners will be displayed at the State Transportation Building gallery in Boston from Feb. 14 to April 8. Gold Key winners will advance to New York to compete in the National Scholastic Art and Writing Awards.

The artwork is judged by a group of jurors who are unaware of the identity of each artist until they have made their final selections and no artwork is disqualified for its content. The artwork is judged based on originality, skill and how well the student's personal vision and/or voice comes through.

These winning pieces were selected from 6,500 submissions of individual artwork as well as 500 portfolios of student artwork. The artwork comes from students in grades 7-12 in public, private and parochial schools in Massachusetts.The Boston Globe Awards program is an affiliate of the national Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, which is now 87 years running, the longest running program for the recognition of student artists and writers in the US.