37 Laurel Students Receive a Total of 54 Honors in the 2023 Scholastic Art & Writing Competition
Each year the Cleveland Institute of Art hosts the Scholastic Art & Writing Competition that recognizes creative achievement in area 7th-12th grade students. Applicants can submit in 28 different categories of art and writing.
Students submitted more than 320,000 works of art and writing in this year’s competition. Award-winning work best exemplifies originality, technical skill, and the emergence of a personal voice or vision. Students receiving Gold Keys, Silver Keys, Honorable Mentions, or American Visions & Voices Nominations are celebrated within their communities through local exhibitions and ceremonies. Gold Key works are then judged nationally by an impressive panel of creative-industry experts to receive National Medals.
Congratulations to the following Laurel students who were recognized in the regional competition:
ART AWARDS
Gold Keys:
Nora Katiyar ‘23, painting titled “Cloud Garden”
Stella Kronstain ‘24, painting titled, “Consuming Media “
Sascha Leiken ‘25, Painting titled “Vitamin C”
Silver Keys:
Sophia Casa ‘23, art portfolio titled “Precipice of Adulthood”
Siena Maschke ‘24, ceramics & glass piece titled “Geometric Bowls”
Abby Preston ‘23, earned three honorable mentions for her ceramics & glass piece titled “Extraterrestrial Halves”, ceramics & glass piece titled “Planetary Form”, and her art portfolio titled “Planetary Forms”
Ej Reindel-Swan ‘24, mixed media piece titled “Fiddle-y-Diddle Murder Violin”
Jazmin Ross ‘25, earned two honorable mentions for her photo titled “My Laurel Community” and her ceramics & class piece titled “Golden Flower Bowl”
WRITING AWARDS
Gold Keys:
Karma Abboud ‘24, science fiction & fantasy piece titled “The World Ends Like a Song”
Liliana Embrescia ‘25, poetry titled “How Are You?”
Rida Tahir ‘27, earned two Gold Keys for her poetry titled “The Country of the Markhor and Chukar” and her flash fiction piece titled “Spilled Chai on a Blank Canvas”
Silver Keys:
Shaliz Bazldjoo ‘24, earned two Silver Keys for her novel writing titled “How to Hunt Witches” and her poetry titled “lavashak”
Lucy Dolzine ‘27, poetry titled “Windows with no Light”
Sophie Rucker ‘25, poetry titled “My Statement”
Claire Sheeler ‘25, critical essay titled “The Need for Hope in Fantasy”
Blake Zollar ‘26, short story titled “A Raven’s Ending”
Honorable Mentions:
Karma Abboud ‘24, short story titled “The Unraveled Girl”
Liliana Embrescia ‘24, earned three Honorable Mentions for her poetry titled “Dear Weather: A Villanelle”, poetry titled “Bittersweet”, and poetry titled “All the Tears I Cannot Cry”
Jannah Kazmi ‘26, short story titled “The Village I Couldn’t Escape”
Stella Kronstain ‘24, poetry titled “Your Perception of Me”
Ann Marie Lahorra ‘27, flash fiction titled “A Sky Full of Sunsets”
Ann Marie Lahorra ‘27, flash fiction titled “Gone in an Instant”
Arabelle Mellenthin ‘26, flash fiction titled “Obstacles of Illusion”
Taya Offutt Decker ‘27, earned three Honorable Mentions for her poetry titled “Breakfast”, poetry titled “Room (For One More)?”, and poetry titled “Black Letters On White Paper”