SCRANTON, PA — They might be young, but they have talent to spare.

They’re the student winners of the Gold Key and American Vision awards, part of the Scholastic Art Awards contest in Northeast PA, and they’ll be exhibiting their works at the Everhart Museum through Sunday, April 28. 

And don’t forget the talented Silver Key and Honorable Mention winners. 

All regional Gold Key recipients move on to the national competition to compete for a National Gold Key Award. Five of the region’s award recipients have also been nominated for the American Vision award—the highest honor possible—and will advance to nationals.

The Northeastern PA Region includes Wayne and Pike counties as well as Clinton, Columbia, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Lycoming, Monroe, Montour, Northumberland, Schuylkill, Snyder, Susquehanna, Union and Wyoming. This year, over 400 artworks from 40 schools were entered into the competition.

The museum partnered with the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers.

The Everhart is located at 1901 Mulberry St. For questions, call 570/346-7186 or visit www.everhart-museum.org/. 

Local award recipients, their schools and their winning works are as follows.

American Visions

Youngeun  Choi, Delaware Valley High School (DVHS) “Contamination”

Sydney Sura, Wallenpaupack Area High School (WAHS) “Stop Sign”

Gold Key

Grace Albano, Honesdale High School (HHS) “Our Armored Scales”

Youngeun Choi, DVHS “Becoming,” “Embrace,” “Victims” and “Contamination”

Joshua Lake, WAHS “Now Arriving”

Charles McClain, DVHS “En Femme Fashion”

Angela Olsen, DVHS “Inside Out”

Olivia Porter, DVHS “Dragon Head”

Sydney Sura, WAHS “Frustration,” “In My Sunglasses,” “Stop Sign” and “Wild Roses”

Michaela Velez, DVHS “Low Power”

Scarlett Weir, DVHS “Girlhood”

Maya  Zhivkovich, DVHS “Transitioning”

Silver Key 

Caroline Curtin, DVHS “Mother Fig”

Adison Davis, Wayne Highlands Middle School (WHMS) “In Memory of My Grandma” and “Lost in Thought”  

Samara Garcia, DVHS “To Dust You Shall Return”

Madison Gentes, WAHS “Feelings of Anger”

Teagan Goring, WAHS “The Color Within”

Ava Jensen, WAHS “Midnight Moon”  Rozlin Jones, DVHS “Windswept”  

Joshua Lake, WAHS “The Wild Blue Yonder”

Peyton LaRocco, DVHS “Walker Lake”  Liana Lucchese, WAHS “Keys and Ink”  Carlos Mendoza, DVHS “One piece wont hurt” 

Madeline Oyer, DVHS “Blue Spring”  

Sydney Sura, WAHS, “Complementary,” “Pictures Perfect” and “The Last Duck”

Honorable Mention

Peter Bauza, WAHS “Human Sea Urchin”  Cole Chulada, Damascus Area School “Knowledge Tree”

Christa Cirello, DVHS “The Rose”

Adison Davis, WHMS “Wasp Invasion”  

Mia Evans, DVHS “Richard Lake”  

Ashley Ganly, DVHS “Nature’s Glitter”  Elizabeth  Hernandez, Honesdale High School (HHS) “Mechanical Mantas”

Amanda Kuta, HHS “Spring Fling” and “The Deep Eddy”

Carlos Mendoza, DVHS “Dichotomy of Nature”

Marisol Mojica, DVHS “Duplicity” and “Tears of Lilith and Lucifer”

Rhapsody  Morgan, DVHS “The Beauty of  Sorrows”

Ellie Pasquini, WHMS “Little bunny”  

Sydney Sura, WAHS “Savannah Sunset” and “Perfectionist”  

Ethan VanDerPlaats, WAHS “Spring Amphibian”

Maya  Zhivkovich, DVHS “A Renaissance  Apprentice”

About the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards competition

The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, established in 1923, is the nation’s longest-running and most prestigious art and writing recognition program for students in grades seven through 12. The Everhart has hosted the competition for the Northeastern PA region since 2018.

The nonprofit Alliance for Young Artists and Writers identifies students with exceptional artistic and literary talent and presents their work to the world.