Accolades

Kate Miller ’21, On The Hunt, Gold Key

Ashley Tirrill ’22, Lost in Transition, Photography, Gold Key

Katie Dovan ’20, Innocence, Gold Key

Sarah Hinds ’24, Siblings on the Coast, Lucy Callen ’25, Swordfish Compass, Grace Scowden ’20, Silver Key Silver Key Inverted, Silver Key Scholastic Art Highlights

Congratulations on your Scholastic Art Awards! The Visual Arts Department is proud of you for having the courage to put your creative work out into the world. Our whole community celebrates you. — Carmen Noel, Harpeth Hall Visual Arts Department Chair

ART AWARDS BY CATEGORY

Painting Personal Still Life Drawing & Illustration Comic Art Ceramics & Glass Printmaking Photography Digital Art Film & Animation Mixed Media Art Portfolio 9 1 4 1 2 8 8 2 1 3 26

Sabrina Russell ’22, Ambition, Silver Key

Ava Claire Williams ’21, A Gray Reflection, Honorable Mention

WRITING AWARDS BY CATEGORY

Critical Essays 12 Flash Fiction 1 Novel Writing 1 Humor Writing 1 Journalism 5 Personal Essay & Memoir 9 Poetry 26

TOTAL NUMBER OF AWARDS BY GRADE

7th Grade 8th Grade 9th Grade 10th Grade 11th Grade 12th Grade 3 3 7 16 26 42

Scholastic Writing Excerpts

rekindle even if only for a moment a sense of the wholeness of being .

— Gaby Viner ’20 Poem: “Rumination on Being” Honorable Mention

I have eight siblings!” I jumped up, my palm clenched over my mouth in disbelief.

— Lydia Beachum ’20 Personal Essay: “Roots and Wings”

You were Atlas, and I was the world . . . The weight you could not bear.

— Ramsey Bottorff ’22 Poem: “The Dreams from Gates of Ivory and Horn” Gold Key

The sugar, the oh so sweet and precious crystals that allow the treat to heal the soul. A little sugar never hurt anyone. It fixes pain.

— Sabrina Chandra ’21 Poem: “Grandma’s Fruitcake”

a mossy bench to rest my tired feet. . . a symbol of a world bigger than myself.

— Sophia Baldwi ’25 Poem: “Haven”

The thing about those creeper vines is that we all hate them . . .You can take those rusty, heavyduty garden cutters and behead all of them and tear their resistant carcasses off your wall, but those suckers will rise from the grave like they made a deal with the devil.

— Nora Wang ’21 Humor Essay: “Ode to Creepers”

She was — The antithesis of Peter-Pan A tattered blankie Sewn to her stubby hand With an insufferable urge To fly into adulthood.

— Keona Dordor ’20 Poem: “Her Evolution” Gold Key

Social media has allowed thousands to share and promote the ongoing fight for racial justice, and will only make a greater impact as technology advances.

— Lily Wilmoth ’20 Critical Essay: “Social Media, Police Brutality, and Racial Profiling” Silver Key