A junior at Episcopal Academy, Will Sargent is a talented artist who works in several mediums. He fabricates his own textiles and taught himself Armenian lace making, and recently won two Scholastic Art & Writing Awards for painting and mixed media. Sargent is a member of EAâs select singing group, the Vocal Ensemble, was selected for the ACDA Honors Choir and is the editor of The Epolitan, an annually published arts and music magazine. He won a French award his freshman year, and is a member of the German Club and the Queer Straight Alliance. Sargent was selected for Global Youth Leadership Institute, which continues through all four years of Upper School. An avid runner, Sargent competes on EAâs cross country and track teams. Sargentâs advisor at EA, Art Department Chair David Sigel, said, âWilliam masterfully uses art as a form of visual communication. This proficiency does not come without practice and a focused dedication to his craft and sophisticated aesthe
The Tablet April 21, 2021
UPPER EAST SIDE Renoir, da Vinci, Gris, Degas … Yuricic, Carbonell, and Jurgens?
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which features a collection that includes more than two million works of art spanning 5,000 years, now includes three Mary Louis Academy students’ artwork on display.
Seniors Mahalia Carbonell, Rebecca Jurgens, and Sabina Yuricic won Gold Key Awards in the 2021 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, the longest-running and most prestigious recognition program for creative teens in the United States.
“Thalassophobia” by Sabina Yuricic (Photo: Courtesy of Scholastic)
As a result, their framed work now hangs alongside nearly 250 other works of art created by New York City teens.
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Casey Epstein-Gross, a senior attending Solebury School, recently was awarded a gold medal and multiple regional gold and silver keys in the 2021 National Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, accolades presented by the Philadelphia Writing Project. The gold medal accomplishment is the highest level of distinction.
Epstein-Gross won with her critical essay, Looking Through the Window : Narrative Form and the Act of Reading as Voyeurism in Wuthering Heights. Since 1923, the awards have recognized some of America’s most celebrated artists and writers while they were teenagers, including Tschabalala Self, Stephen King, Kay WalkingStick, Charles White, Joyce Carol Oates and Andy Warhol.
A fascination with light and an escape to Costco helped two Memphis teens win some of the highest honors in art and writing awards, following the footsteps of Sylvia Plath, Andy Warhol and Stephen King.
The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards granted Hutchison School senior Amellia Hausmann the Gold Medal Portfolio Award, the program s highest honor given to 16 high school seniors across the United States, while White Station High freshman Vivian Fan earned the American Voices Medal, the highest regional honor. I always hoped for a national award, like maybe I ll get a silver medal or it would be really great if I got a gold medal, so this year it just exceeded all of my expectations, Hausmann said.