Image: “Olga,” by Olga Brevnova, Gold Key/American Visions nominee from Belmont High School. 

For the past week, seven Belmont High School and three Chenery Middle School artists had their works prominently displayed at Boston University’s 808 Gallery as part of the “Exhibition of Gold Key Work” part of the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, run by the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (SMFA), in partnership with the Boston Globe.

The Scholastic Art Awards are the nation’s longest-running, largest, most prestigious recognition program for creative teenagers in the visual and literary arts. The works, from 17,000 entries, are judged on originality, technical skill, and the emergence of a personal voice or vision.

This year, a total of 28 Belmont students earned awards:

Belmont High School                                                                                                                                                                                           

• Olga Brevnova      Gold Key/American Visions Nominee      Painting               “Olga”
• Della Copes-Finke             Gold Key                                            Painting               “Mirror Mirror”
• Darcy Feeley                       Gold Key                                            Painting               “Virus”
• Chihiro Ichikawa               Gold Key                                            Painting               “Records of My Universe”
• Austin Ickes                        Gold Key                                            Photography       “The Gang’s All Here”
• Sabine Strauch                   Gold Key                                            Painting               “Nausea”
• Vinutna Veeragandham   Gold Key                                            Painting               “Frame Of Green”
• Suyeon Ji                             Silver Key                                          Painting               “paint my identity”
• Kimberly Paquette             Silver Key                                          Painting               “Disintegration”
• Hae Soo Park                      Silver Key                                          Painting               “Emptiness”
• Cheng Qin                           Silver Key                                          Digital Art            “Origin”
• Amy Wang                          Silver Key                                          Painting                “Cast From the Garden: Self and the Seven Deadlies”
• Adam Alper                        Honorable Mention                        Painting               “Party Like Its 1899”
• Hayoung Jo                        Honorable Mention                        Painting               “Hide and Seek”
• Najin Kim                           Honorable Mention                        Painting               “The Show”
• Yuzhe Li                              Honorable Mention                        Painting               “Peanut Butter”
• Shreya Patel                       Honorable Mention                        Painting               “Incased”
• Sierra Tseng                       Honorable Mention                        Painting               “Staring Contest”

Chenery Middle School                                                                                                                                                                                           

• Zoe Armstrong                    Honorable Mention                        “Sophie”
• Laurel Carpenter                Honorable Mention                        “Untitled”
• Laurel Carpenter                Gold Key                                            “Good Things Come in Threes”
• Samantha Dignan              Gold Key                                            “Red Apple Roosters”
• Leon Fan                              Honorable Mention                        “A Tale of Two Souls”
• Octavia Leeb                        Gold Key                                            “Queen Bee”
• Hallie Liu                             Honorable Mention                        “A Man’s Burden”
• Johanna Matulonis            Honorable Mention                        “Songbird”
• Viola Monovich                  Honorable Mention                        “Try Everything”
• Viola Monovich                  Honorable Mention                        “Purple Haze”
• Victoria Shaw                      Silver Key                                           “Reading Alone”
• Emily Zhang                        Silver Key                                           “Neptune”