Scholastic Art Winners Announced

Congratulations to 25 Upper School students who won a total of 64 individual awards in art from the Scholastic Art and Writing Competition, including 17 Gold Keys and 13 Silver Keys. View the award-winning work here. 

Winning entries were selected for awards without knowledge of the student’s gender, age, ethnicity, or hometown by some of the foremost leaders in the visual and literary arts. Jurors look for works that exemplify the Scholastic Art Awards’ core values: originality, skill, and the emergence of a personal voice or vision. Many USM students were honored for multiple works, including: Gianna Cooks '26, Darcy Doyle '26, Jorge Guifarro '25, Madelyn Hernandez '25, Eliana Igwike '26, Tatiana Marich '25, Sullivan Mellowes '25, Izabel Munoz '25, Halimah Shittu '25, and Aida El-Hajjar '27, who won an incredible 25 awards, including seven Gold Keys.

All 25 art award winners will be honored at a special virtual ceremony on Sunday, March 3, and students who received either a Gold Key or Silver Key will have their work displayed in an exhibition at the Milwaukee Art Museum from Feb. 24 through April 7. In addition, the Gold Key recipients advance to the national competition in New York City for a chance to have their work exhibited and/or published.

In addition to the achievements in Scholastic Art, read about the USM students who received awards from the Scholastic Writing competition.

Names of award winners were collected to the best of our ability. If you notice an error or omission, please email communications@usm.org. 

Congratulations to the following USM student award winners: