Team Detail
The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards 2025
The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards have celebrated and honored the creativity of young artists and writers across the country for over 100 years. Presented by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, a non-profit organization dedicated to spotlighting exceptional student talent, the awards provide a platform for recognition, exhibition, publication, and scholarship opportunities.
We are excited to congratulate the Vermont Academy students who earned Scholastic Art & Writing Awards at the state level this year. Awarded to our students were one Gold Key, three Silver Keys, and ten Honorable Mentions. Gold Key awards are automatically considered for awards at the national level.
Their works, along with the other award-winning pieces from students throughout Vermont, will be exhibited at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) from February 14 - March 8, 2025, culminating in an awards ceremony on Saturday, March 8, at 12:00 pm and will feature keynote speaker Will Kasso Condry, a visual artist, graffiti scholar, and educator based in Brandon, VT. For more information, click here.
Listed below are the Vermont Academy students who received awards:
Gold Key
Oliver Walsh-Fischetti ’25
Utterly Useless − Ceramics & Glass
Silver Key
Maya Carbone ’27
The Weight of Floating: Somewhere Between Here and Nowhere − Mixed Media
Sydney Shaw ’25
Heritage − Personal Essay and Memoir
Darlene Tashobya ’25
Emotional Motion Sickness − Personal Essay & Memoir
Honorable Mention
Maya Carbone ’27
Cards of Anxiety: Narrative of Struggle and Self-Discovery − Drawing & Illustration
Hysteria: Silenced and Sedated − Expanded Projects (Art)
Ephemeral Muse Deep in Twilight Dreams − Painting
Mason Evans ’26
It's Rude To Smoke On The Phone − Photography
Ana Hernandez-Merkle ’25
Untitled − Personal Essay & Memoir
Alyson Lantz ’25
Life in a Vase − Ceramics & Glass
Rhema Nabasa ’25
The Voices − Mixed Media
Sofi Natvig ’25
Funky Socks − Personal Essay & Memoir
Luke Pennell ’26
Lotus Flower − Photography
Carmen Whitney ’25
Eyes of Resentment − Photography
Vermont Academy is a coed college preparatory boarding and day school in southern Vermont, serving grades 9-12 plus a postgraduate year.
