The Visual Arts Department at Mississippi School of the Arts recently received 87 total Scholastic Art awards in the 2025 Scholastic Art and Writing Mississippi Regional Competition. Nineteen Gold Key awards will be on display at the Mississippi Museum of Art through May 10th, 2025: Scholastic Art Gold Key Award Exhibition
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 2024, more than 110,000 teens across the United States and Canada entered more than 340,000 original works in 28 different categories of art and writing.
Gold Key Awards
19
Silver Key Awards
26
Honorable Mention
42
Instructors: Maurice Calvert and Brandy Johnson
- Kayleigh Creel (Jr)- 3 Awards (1 Gold, 2 Silver)
- Madelyn Baker (Jr) – 5 Awards (2 Gold, 3 Honorable Mention)
- Kalea Andersen (Sr) – 13 Awards (6 Gold, 1 Silver, 6 Honorable Mention)
- Cassidy Hodges (Jr) – 4 Awards (2 Gold, 2 Silver)
- Ava Fulgham (Jr) – 4 Awards (2 Gold, 1 Silver, 1 Honorable Mention )
- Marrell Rainey (Jr) – 2 Awards (1 Gold, 1 Honorable Mention)
- Briana Fuentes (Sr) – 5 Awards (1 Gold, 3 Silver, 1 Honorable Mention)
- Julia Landry (Sr) – 7 Awards (1 Gold, 3 Silver, 3 Honorable Mention)
- Janiya Hampton (Jr) – 3 Awards (1 Gold, 2 Honorable Mention)
- Rowan Booker (Sr) – 8 Awards (1 Gold, 2 Silver, 5 Honorable Mention)
- Cooper Findley (Jr) – 1 Award (Gold)
- Aurora Garduno (Sr) – 2 Awards (1 Silver, 1 Honorable Mention)
- Emma Peagler (Sr) – 4 Awards (2 Silver, 2 Honorable Mention)
- Aireyal Barrett (Jr) – 1 Award (Honorable Mention)
- Jayden Carroll (Jr) – 1 Award (Honorable Mention)
- Elena Sullivan (Sr) – 2 Awards (Honorable Mention)
- Sahra Liban (Sr) – 2 Awards (Honorable Mention)
- Iris Barnard (Sr) – 2 Awards (1 Silver, 1 Honorable Mention)
- Anna Shurden (Sr) – 2 Awards (Honorable Mention)
- Aniya Stalling (Jr) – 1 Award (Honorable Mention)
- LeBrannon McNeil (Jr) – 2 Awards (Honorable Mention)
- Lucy Dick (Sr) – 2 Awards (Silver)
- Evan Guilfoyle (Jr) – 1 Award (Honorable Mention)
- Olivia White (Sr) – 2 Awards (Silver)
- Destiny Wesley (Jr) – 1 Award (Silver)