Mississippi School of the Arts celebrates the visual arts department for capturing numerous Scholastic Visual Aarts awards in the 2024 Regional Scholastic Art Competition. The department received ninety-nine awards in this year’s competition. The department instructors are Maurice Calvert and Brandy Johnson. Click Here for more information about the visual arts program at MSA.
The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards are presented by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers. The Alliance is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to identify students with exceptional artistic and literary talent and present their remarkable work to the world through the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. The Awards give students opportunities for recognition, exhibition, publication, and scholarships. In 2023, students across the United States and Canada entered more than 300,000 original works in 28 different categories of art and writing.
American Visions Nominee
Theodore Cooper received Gold Key and an American Visions nomination for Ceramics & Glass category work titled “Primary Color Blues.” This piece will be juried at the national level.
Gold Key award winners will be on display at the Mississippi Museum of Art starting March 27th. Visit the event page here for more information about the Gold Key Exhibition and upcoming awards ceremony for Gold, Silver, and Honorable Mention award recipients.
Gold Key
| Student | Category | Title of Work |
| Theodore Cooper | Painting | Shedding Pink |
| Theodore Cooper | Painting | Pink Sky |
| Theodore Cooper | Painting | Lucie and the Light |
| Jocelyn (Neon) Camp | Sculpture | Edmonia Lewis |
| Theodore Cooper | Ceramics & Glass | Primary Color Blues |
| Theodore Cooper | Ceramics & Glass | Elliott Smith |
| Isana Chapman | Drawing & Illustration | Uncle David |
| Jocelyn (Neon) Camp | Sculpture | Parasitic Paradise |
| Briana Fuentes | Drawing & Illustration | Curiosity |
| Elena Sullivan | Drawing & Illustration | My Baby Cousin Keiko |
| Anna Shurden | Drawing & Illustration | A Sunny Morning |
| Emma Powney | Painting | Wandering Mind |
| Emma Powney | Painting | Patrick |
| Kalea Andersen | Drawing & Illustration | Coming Clean |
Silver Key
| Student | Category | Title of Work |
| Theodore Cooper | Photography | HAVE |
| Emma Powney | Painting | flowering world |
| Theodore Cooper | Ceramics & Glass | Bob Dylan |
| Theodore Cooper | Printmaking | C is for Chicken |
| Theodore Cooper | Painting | Fallen Shed |
| Theodore Cooper | Painting | Ouroboros |
| Theodore Cooper | Painting | green grass bare barn |
| Emma Powney | Painting | world of flowers |
| Briana Fuentes | Mixed Media | Piece of Peace |
| Isana Chapman | Painting | Mama Syndey |
| Lucy Dick | Drawing & Illustration | Simple Joy |
| Elroyn Gathright | Mixed Media | Growth in the Shadow of Sugary Sweet Sorrow |
| Elroyn Gathright | Mixed Media | changing tracks |
| Kandace Tate | Sculpture | Home Sweet Home |
| Aarah Nicole Mayor | Mixed Media | Harana |
| Julia Landry | Drawing & Illustration | Ink Cottage |
| Julia Landry | Painting | Flower Pot Still Life |
| Kalea Andersen | Drawing & Illustration | Simple Things |
| Emma Powney | Painting | Backing the Sun |
| Emma Powney | Painting | Backing the Moon |
| Aarah Nicole Mayor | Painting | Self Portrait |
| Emma Powney | Drawing & Illustration | Wondering Shoes |
| Emma Powney | Drawing & Illustration | Flowers in a dyeing world |
| Lucy Dick | Painting | Fruits of Labor |
| Aarah Nicole Mayor | Mixed Media | Trauma Pump |
| Aarah Nicole Mayor | Comic Art | Comic Jeep |
| Aarah Nicole Mayor | Painting | Bequest My History |
| Lucy Dick | Drawing & Illustration | Light of My Life |
| Kalea Andersen | Drawing & Illustration | Cooper Hall |
| Iris Barnard | Painting | Carry On Mr. Bowditch |
| Anna Shurden | Drawing & Illustration | An Earthen Being with an Extraterrestrial Soul |
Honorable Mention
| Student | Category | Title of Work |
| Chloe Malone | Drawing & Illustration | Cat drinking water |
| Theodore Cooper | Photography | Feline Eye |
| Chloe Malone | Drawing & Illustration | On the Railroad Tracks |
| Chloe Malone | Digital Art | Lost in the Headlights |
| Chloe Malone | Digital Art | Laboratory |
| Neon Camp | Mixed Media | Skittles |
| Theodore Cooper | Painting | Scaffolds |
| Theodore Cooper | Painting | Choppy Plaines |
| Theodore Cooper | Painting | blue sky barn |
| Theodore Cooper | Painting | Papaw’s Glasses |
| Emma Powney | Painting | Swan Nebula |
| Emma Powney | Mixed Media | The Woman |
| Emma Powney | Painting | watching |
| Aarah Nicole Mayor | Painting | Poinsettias |
| Isana Chapman | Drawing & Illustration | Grandma Ruby |
| Isana Chapman | Painting | 1978 |
| Rowan Booker | Fox Saying “I Love You” | Film & Animation |
| Rowan Booker | Drawing & Illustration | Portrait of a Oaxacan Mother |
| Elroyn Gathright | Printmaking | Emperor penguin |
| Elroyn Gathright | Mixed Media | O for the muse of fiery; jazzy tones |
| Elroyn Gathright | Mixed Media | Little Red: The Sleeping Death |
| Brennan Tarrant | Comic Art | Groovy Lava Lamp |
| Aarah Nicole Mayor | Mixed Media | Batok Burda |
| Neon Camp | Painting | It’s Your Birthday! |
| Olivia White | Digital Art | Jackie Ormes |
| Ava Buckley | Drawing & Illustration | Mirrors |
| Julia Landry | Drawing & Illustration | Deep in Thought |
| Elena Sullivan | Drawing & Illustration | Surprise! |
| Lucy Dick | Painting | Euphoric Dancing |
| Brianna Fuentes | Drawing & Illustration | Memories |
| Julia Landry | Drawing & Illustration | Pumpkin Patch |
| Ava Buckley | Painting | The Green Lady |
| Lucy Dick | Drawing & Illustration | Selfie! |
| Julia Landry | Painting | Sun and Moon |
| Aarah Nicole Mayor | Printmaking | C is for Chital Deer |
| Aarah Nicole Mayor | Mixed Media | Ambedo Prosopagnosia |
| Anna Shurden | Painting | Simple Joy |
| Anna Shurden | Drawing & Illustration | Bell Tower |
| Sahra Liban | Drawing & Illustration | Special Pam |
| Emma Powney | Drawing & Illustration | Study no. 1 |
| Chloe Malone | Drawing & Illustration | Downfall |
| Kandace Tate | Painting | Euphoric |
| Emma Powney | Drawing & Illustration | Keys to the soul |
| Lucy Dick | Drawing & Illustration | True Gold |
| Elroyn Gathright | Painting | blazing experience |
| Elroyn Gathright | Mixed Media | Stagnation Amidst Fiery Seas |
| Cooper Findley | Drawing & Illustration | Just Me |
| Kalea Andersen | Drawing & Illustration | The Last Supper |
| Cooper Findley | Painting | Also Me |
| Kalea Andersen | Mixed Media | Hazed Down |
| Drawing & Illustration | Lucy Dick | A Rustic Bounty |
| Brianna Fuentes | Painting | Natural Habitat |
| Rowan Booker | Film & Animation | Fox Saying “I Love You” |
| Rowan Booker | Drawing & Illustration | Three Cicadas |