Teens in grades 7-12 can apply in 29 categories of art and writing for the chance to earn scholarships and have their works exhibited or published. The national non-profit organization that presents the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards will honor students at Car. Selected award recipients and high school seniors recognized with top honors will have their art exhibited at Parsons the New School for Design in New York.
More than 100,000 teens from across the country and Canada entered more than 340,000 works of art and writing to the 2025 Scholastic Awards. Around 2,500 works received National Medals this year.This year’s Arlington Public Schools national medalist recipients are:
Art Award – American Visions Medal
Kaitlyn Runion “know me” Arlington Tech Grade 11 |
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Art Awards – Gold Medalist
Allegra Vena “Veil of Conformity” Wakefield Grade 12 |
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Ian Alcorn “Pearly Whites” Wakefield Grade 12 |
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Lourdes Vazquez “The Warmest Blue” Wakefield Grade 12 |
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Mphatso Phiri “the goodbye“ Wakefield Grade 12 |
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Quinn Magnell “On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate your pain? (I don’t know, it just hurts)“ Washington-Liberty Grade 11 |
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Travis Dai “Sharp Touch“ Yorktown Grade 12 |
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Lily Dezfulian “Resonant Structure“ Yorktown Grade 12 |
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Kaitlyn Runion “know me” Career Center Grade 11 |
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Art Awards – Silver Portfolio Medalist
Mphatso Phiri “In God’s Hands” Wakefield Grade 12 |
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Danté Julius “How we Relate to Our Mother” Washington-Liberty Grade 12 |
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Art Awards – Silver Medalist
Robin Kaufman “Eastern Bluebird” Career Center Grade 10 |
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Robin Kaufman “Seal Harbor Fog” Career Center Grade 10 |
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Miles Green “Flow” H-B Woodlawn Grade 12 |
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Allegra Vena “Ringing Out” Wakefield Grade 11 |
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August Court “The Odd Egg Out” Wakefield Grade 9 |
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Kiley Anderson “Pomegranate Box” Wakefield Grade 10 |
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Finn Sherlick “Bernina Express” Wakefield Grade 11 |
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Jackson Montague “Gondola” Wakefield Grade 12 |
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Lina Alvarado “Brown Silvers” Wakefield Grade 11 |
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Sam Hemel “My Face, as I’ve seen it” Washington-Liberty Grade 11 |
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Tyson Walker “Mean Lizard” Williamsburg Grade 8 |
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Travis Dai “Toxic Trait” Yorktown Grade 12 |
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Art Awards – Portfolio Honorable Mention Medalist
Eitan Polanco “The Sound of Silence” Wakefield Grade 12 |
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Yaninne Tapia Salas “Rabbits Galore” Wakefield Grade 12 |
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Felix Ko “Symmetry/Asymmetry” Yorktown Grade 12 |
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Morgan Shelton “Progression and Connection” Yorktown Grade 12 |
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Travis Dai “Seeing Through the Flow” Yorktown Grade 12 |
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Amy Walsh “Then and Now” Yorktown Grade 12 |
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Julia Markowitz “Absurdism in Daily Life” Yorktown Grade 12 |
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Writing Award – Silver Medalist
Lily Dezfulian “A review on pockets in the form of 10 Macys Yelp comments“ Yorktown Grade 12 |
COMING SOON! WILL BE POSTED AT A LATER DATE |