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79 Students Win Visual Art Awards

Millburn and Short Hills students take home 24 Gold Key awards, 27 Silver Key awards and 26 Honorable Mention awards in the 2013 Northern NJ Regional Scholastic Art and Writing Awards competition.

Millburn Township Public School students have won 79 Visual Art awards in the prestigious 2013 Northern NJ Regional Scholastic Art and Writing Awards competition. Students at Millburn High School won 24 Gold Key awards, 27 Silver Key awards and 26 Honorable Mention awards.

Two students at the Millburn Middle School also won awards this year including a Gold Key and an Honorable Mention.

The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards competition is sponsored by the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers. The competition is the nation’s longest-running, largest and most prestigious recognition program for creative teenagers in the visual and literary arts and strives to identify, motivate and validate the next generation of artists and writers.

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The student work is judged first at the regional level and then at the national level. After work is submitted regionally, the affiliate organization coordinates the judging of work by local professionals in the visual and literary arts.

An exhibit of the Gold Key artwork will be on display at Montclair Art Museum from Feb. 12  to March 10, 2013 in the Education and Art School Arcade gallery. The Award Ceremony and Reception for Gold Key and Silver Key winners will be on Tuesday, Feb. 12 from 6 to 9 p.m.  An event honoring all Millburn Township Scholastic winners will be held at the Millburn High School on March 21st.

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Works that receive Gold Key recognition at the regional level are automatically included in the pool of work that is judged nationally among Gold Key winning work from across the country. The national awards will be announced in mid-March and winning students will receive their awards at a ceremony held at Carnegie Hall in New York City in May.

The following stundets won visual art awards the 2013 Northern NJ Regional Scholastic Art and Writing Awards competition:

MILLBURN MIDDLE SCHOOL

GOLD KEY

  • Ryan Sunada-Wong- Gold Key-Comic Art

HONORABLE MENTION

  • Kiki Prager- Honorable Mention-Photography 

MILLBURN HIGH SCHOOL 

GOLD KEY

  • Rowen Altenburger – Gold Key- Mixed Media
  • Natasha Baskin- Gold Key -Digital Art
  • Alexandra Bass- Gold Key -Photography
  • Michelle Belgrod- Gold Key -Drawing
  • Lilly Blum- Gold Key -Art Portfolio
  • Ramya Chitibomma- 2 Gold Keys - Sculpture and Mixed Media
  • Erika Delgado-Fukushima- Gold Key- Painting
  • Jade Gardner 5 Gold Keys- 1-Photography, 2-Drawing, 1-Mixed Media, 1-Art Portfolio
  • Viraj Khetani- Gold Key -Fashion
  • Ashley McLeroy- Gold Key -Mixed Media
  • Jake Oleson-- Gold Key -Sculpture
  • Carly Pancer -2 Gold Keys- Fashion and Printmaking
  • Owen Schumacher -2 Gold Keys –Photography and Art Portfolio
  • Cailley Silbert- Gold Key -Design
  • McKenzie Sutton- Gold Key -Painting
  • Charles Zhang- Gold Key -Drawing
  • Francesca Zwang- Gold Key-Jewelry
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  • SILVER KEY
  • Lindsay Basile -3 Silver Keys- Sculpture, Drawing and Art Portfolio
  • Chloe Chan- Silver Key -Mixed Media
  • Ramya Chitibomma -2 Silver Keys- Painting and Architecture
  • Jade Gardner- Silver Key-Photography
  • Amanda Kam-Silver Key-Photography
  • Viraj Khetani - Silver Key -Art Portfolio
  • Shiv Malhotra -3 Silver Keys - Photography
  • Laurel Meng- Silver Key -Painting
  • Jessica Nadel- Silver Key -Mixed Media
  • Jake Oleson -2 Silver Keys - Film and Animation
  • Alexa Paley- Silver Key -Painting
  • Carly Pancer –Silver Key- Printmaking
  • Amanda Prager - Silver Key -Film and Animation
  • Owen Schumacher- Silver Key -Sculpture
  • Dilhan Sirtalan- Silver Key -Mixed Media
  • Anna Smirnova- Silver Key -Mixed Media
  • Megan Weissman- Silver Key -Mixed Media
  • Emma Wishnow- Silver Key- Digital Art
  • Alexandra Zashin -2 Silver Keys- Mixed Media and Ceramics and Glass
  • Eugene Zeng- (Princeton Art Institute)- Silver Key- Painting
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  • HONORABLE MENTION
  • Alexandra Bass – Honorable Mention-Photography
  • Michelle Belgrod -2 Honorable Mentions –Drawing and Photography
  • Lilly Blum- 2 Honorable Mentions-Fashion and Painting
  • Ramya Chitibomma- 2 Honorable Mentions-Fashion and Drawing
  • Olivia Chou- Honorable Mention -Painting
  • Charlie Ehrenfried- Honorable Mention -Painting
  • Jade Gardner- Honorable Mention -Jewelry
  • Zoë Graves - Honorable Mention -Mixed Media
  • Tara Greene- Honorable Mention -Ceramics and Glass
  • Saachi Gupta- Honorable Mention -Photography
  • Alena Gurevich- Honorable Mention -Drawing
  • Evan Imegwu- Honorable Mention -Painting
  • Angela Jin- Honorable Mention -Mixed Media
  • Harsimran Minhas- Honorable Mention -Art Portfolio
  • Carly Pancer- 2 Honorable Mention - Mixed Media and Printmaking
  • Ravi Patel- Honorable Mention- Photography
  • Evalina Patiño- Honorable Mention - Mixed Media
  • Catherine Tso- Honorable Mention -Painting
  • Lauren Tulip- Honorable Mention -Mixed Media
  • Lyndsay Wittenberg- Honorable Mention -Painting
  • Zoe Zashin- Honorable Mention -Ceramics and Glass
  • Eugene Zeng- Honorable Mention -Drawing

 


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