Scholastic Art Awards
Elizabeth Bauman wins an $80,000.00 scholarship!
25 January 2014: Elizabeth Bauman won a Gold Key Award and an $80,000.00 scholarship to the Hartford Art School for her 8-piece senior portfolio. Elizabeth received the scholarship and her Gold Key at the 2014 Scholastic Art Awards ceremony, held on 25 January, 2014, at the Lincoln Performing Arts Center in West Hartford. This is the largest merit scholarship ever earned by a BAY artist; congratulations Elizabeth!
Scholastic Art Award Winners Announced
8 January 2014: Connecticut’s winners in the prestigious Scholastic Art Awards have been announced. Senior student at the BAY, Elizabeth Bauman of Ledyard, CT, has won a Gold Key for her eight-piece senior portfolio, which focuses on portrait drawing and painting. Elizabeth is the fifth BAY artist to win a Gold Key in the senior portfolio competition. Past winners are: Taylor Hubbs of East Lyme and Ashley Vivenzio of Noank in 2010, Jenna Yenik of East Lyme in 2007, and Elena Brubaker of East Lyme in 2006
Senior student at the BAY, Haley Carey of East Lyme, CT has won a Silver Key for her graphite self-portrait entitled, “Beet Red.” Haley is a paid intern at the Barn for Artistic Youth in Niantic and has been a student there for 10 years. Haley has been admitted to Boston College and will start there in the fall of 2014.
Senior student at the BAY, Joel Yuhas of Niantic, CT has won a Silver Key for his leather sculpture of a jellyfish entitled, “Mr. Wiggles.” Joel has been a student at the Barn for Artistic Youth for many years and recently earned the rank of Eagle Scout. Joel intends to major in either industrial design or engineering when he begins college next fall.
The Scholastic Art Awards
The Scholastic Art Awards provide the most prestigious awards and largest source of scholarships to high school student artists in the United States. The competition to have work accepted into the juried show is difficult and exclusive. Each art teacher is allowed to nominate work from only four students each year. The work may be a single piece or a senior high school student's 8-piece portfolio. This first "winnowing" eliminates the great majority of all student artists.
Nominated works of art go before a panel of professional artists and college art professors who evaluate the work for creativity, technical ability, and overall artistic merit. The competition among the nominated artists for the coveted silver and gold "Key" awards is fierce and no art is hung in the show unless it earns at least an honorable mention from the judges. The most deserving of these works receive the "Gold Key Award." Senior portfolios and works of art that earn a "Gold Key" are further scrutinized for additional awards of art materials, lessons, cash, and scholarships.
Nominated works of art go before a panel of professional artists and college art professors who evaluate the work for creativity, technical ability, and overall artistic merit. The competition among the nominated artists for the coveted silver and gold "Key" awards is fierce and no art is hung in the show unless it earns at least an honorable mention from the judges. The most deserving of these works receive the "Gold Key Award." Senior portfolios and works of art that earn a "Gold Key" are further scrutinized for additional awards of art materials, lessons, cash, and scholarships.
