Works by four Fort Atkinson High School students are featured in the 45th annual Scholastic Art Awards: Wisconsin Exhibition hosted at the Milwaukee Art Museum.
This marks the first time the exhibit, which continues through March 21, is being held virtually, due to the coronavirus.
More than 200 artworks by Wisconsin students in grades 7-12 are featured in the juried exhibit.
The 1,800-plus works were submitted in the categories of Architecture & Industrial Design, Ceramics & Glass, Comic Art, Design, Digital Art, Drawing & Illustration, Editorial Cartoon, Expanded Projects, Fashion, Film & Animation, Jewelry, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture, and Senior Art Portfolios.
There were 136 Silver Key- and 98 Gold Key-honored artworks across 17 categories. Fort Atkinson students excelled in three of those categories.
In Drawing and Illustration, senior Emerson Reese received a Gold Key for “Self Portrait.”
Jessica Sharp, a junior, earned a Gold Key for her drawing, “Portrait.”
She also was awarded three honors in the Ceramics and Glass category: a Gold Key for “Snail Teapot,” a Silver Key for “Green Vessel With Flowers” and a Silver Key for “Growing Through Bricks.”
Also in the Ceramics and Glass category, Elee Sharp, a junior, received a Silver Key for “Zebra Teapot.”
In the Jewelry category, she earned a Gold Key for “Twin Snakes.”
Continuing in the Jewelry category, Maya Williams, a senior, earned a Silver Key for “Beautiful Accident.”
The Silver Key Award denotes statewide recognition. Artworks with a Gold Key later compete for Silver and Gold Medals at the national level in New York.
The high school art teachers are Angie Szabo and Frank Korb. Stacci Barganz is the gifted and talented education coordinator.
A number of artists represented in the Milwaukee Art Museum’s collection were Scholastic Art Award recipients, including Nancy Burkert, Robert Indiana, David Lenz, Philip Pearlstein, JoAnna Poehlmann, Cy Twombly, Tom Uttech, and Andy Warhol.
Twenty-nine artists and art professionals from Milwaukee’s creative community made the award selections, using a blind-jury process based on Scholastic’s three core values: originality, technical skill, and the emergence of a personal vision or voice.
This program is supported in part by a grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts.
To view the full exhibit, visit the Milwaukee Art Museum virtually: https://mam.org/exhibitions/details/scholastic-2021.php.
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