Serving students and educators from central North and South Carolina, the Mid-Carolina
Scholastic Art Awards are hosted by the College of Arts + Architecture at UNC Charlotte.
The ceremony for regional Gold and Silver Key awards will be held virtually on Feb.
8, 2025.
The winning artwork will be on display starting March 1, 2025, through April 6, 2026,
at the Mint Museum Uptown in Charlotte, North Carolina. Visitors will have the opportunity
to see the Gold and Silver Key winners in person and admission will be free.
The national awards will be announced in March and the winners’ work displayed in New York City in June.
“Bailaora” / Artwork by: Sarah Sofia Pineros Ardila
“We are incredibly proud of our students’ success in this year’s Mid-Carolina Region
of the Scholastic Art Awards,” said Assistant Dean and Director of Visual Arts Will Taylor, who is a professor of drawing in the UNCSA School of Design and Production. “To
have their work acknowledged by such a distinguished panel including museum curators,
university professors, and professional artists is a testament to their dedication,
creativity and the high caliber of their work. It’s an honor to see them recognized
for the passion and skill they possess and put into their work.”
Submissions are evaluated in numerous categories, including design, digital art, mixed
media, painting, sculpture, and ceramics and glass. The entries are classified according
to media, then sorted by grade level. Panels of regional jurors, made up of museum
curators, college and university professors, professional artists, and veteran K-12
art teachers evaluate the work in a blind judging process.
Winners include:
Miles Parrott-Streeck, Asheville, North Carolina
Gold Key for Ceramics & Glass, “Cameron”
Honorable Mentions for Design, “flux #1” and for Sculpture, “movement no.1”
Caroline Roth, Asheville, North Carolina
Gold Key for Drawing & Illustration, “Memento Vanitatis”
Ruby Seiler, Asheville, North Carolina
Silver Key for Sculpture, “The Shape of Blue”
Audrey Song, Cary, North Carolina
Gold Key for Painting, “The Problem With No Name”
Silver Key for Painting, “Pick a Flavor”
Honorable Mention for Mixed Media, “Flesh and Fiber”
Avery Klanecky, Charlotte, North Carolina
Silver Key for Sculpture, “Drenched”
Lydia Mollenkopf, Elizabeth City, North Carolina
Silver Key for Mixed Media, “Thank You”
Honorable Mention for Drawing & Illustration, “My Pile”
Lee Ledford, King, North Carolina
Honorable Mentions for Expanded Projects, “Chaotic Serenity” and “Lush Anointment”
Mattias Christian, Newton, North Carolina
Gold Key for Editorial Cartoon, “Through Her Eyes”
Silver Key for Photography, “Fried!”
Sarah Sofia Pineros Ardila, Reston, Virginia
Gold Key for Printmaking, “Black Cat”
Silver Key for Mixed Media, “Bailaora”
Honorable Mention for Portfolio, “Mi alma, mi niñez”
Capper Gage, Thomasville, North Carolina
Silver Key for Drawing & Illustration, “Little Astronaut’s Great Stealing of a Sea
Nymph”
Larissa Liu, Waxhaw, North Carolina
Gold Key for Digital Art, “Daydreaming”
Silver Keys for Digital Art, “In the Alleys” and “Seventeen,” and for Sculpture, “Bloom”
Honorable Mention for Drawing & Illustration, “The Roses You Gave Me”
Emma Fox, Winston-Salem
Silver Keys for Painting, “Above” and “Sands of Tráth,” and for Drawing & Illustration,
“Alphie”
Honorable Mention for Drawing & Illustration, “Reflections in Crystal Honey”
Ava Moore, Winston-Salem
Gold Keys for Drawing & Illustration, “Shifting Lenses” and for Mixed Media, “Explosive
Childhood”
Silver Keys for Design, “мама” and for Sculpture, “Infectious Infatuation”
“Memento Vanitatis” / Artwork by: Caroline Roth
About the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards
The nation’s longest-running, most prestigious recognition program for creative teens,
the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards were founded in 1923. Notable winners have included
artist Andy Warhol, sculptor Luis Jiménez, photographer Richard Avedon, artist Kay
WalkingStick, author Stephen King and director Ken Burns.
About the UNCSA Visual Arts Program
The UNCSA Visual Arts Program enrolls high school juniors and seniors who commit to
a rigorous course of study in design, drawing, sculpture and art history. Graduates
of the program have continued to pursue their interest in the fine arts at universities
such as Virginia Commonwealth, Kansas City Art Institute, Maryland Institute College
of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, School of Art Institute of Chicago, Ringling
College of Art and Design, School of the Museum of Fine Art – Boston and College for
Creative Studies. Visual Arts alumni have enjoyed successful careers in photography,
graphic design, painting, animation, sculpture, installation art, makeup artistry
and arts education.