By Jeremiah May ’17, Contributor
This year Cincinnati Country Day School had 46 award winners in the Regional Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. The award winning pieces are sent to the Cincinnati Arts Academy where all of the Upper School art and photography classes saw them last week. Although the awards are certainly prestigious, some question the ability of the judges to choose the objectively best works.
The highest award is the Gold Key, followed by the Silver Key and then the Honorable Mention. Gold Keys are sent on to be judged in New York, where students could end up winning a national medal.
Erica Glosby ’17, who won a Gold Key and three Silver Keys, says “I love creating art and seeing other people’s art but to be frank, I think the awards are flawed. It’s a cool experience and it’s great if you win something, but there was so much work by other people that I felt surpassed mine in quality, yet received little or nothing. Art is subjective and that’s just how it goes, surprisingly, I just got lucky.”
Although it is hard to say if the awards can be or are truly objective in their judgment, they still stand as one of the premier awards for young artists. Jack Tereck ’17 said that it was interesting seeing the works of all the artists at the CAA but wondered about how the judges made their choices. Despite the subjective judging, Country Day certainly performed well in comparison with other schools in Cincinnati. The full list of Country Day Award Winners is below:
Becca Wise ’16: Gold Key, Silver Key
Bryant Aquino ’18: Gold Key, Silver Key
Carmelita Mays ’16: Gold Key, Silver Key (2), Honorable Mention (2)
Erica Glosby ’17: Gold Key, Silver Key (3)
JC Vogt ’16: Gold Key (3)
Josie Rutherford ’18: Gold Key (2), Silver Key (2)
Kaitlyn Hardesty ’18: Gold Key
Kathryn Burress ’16: Gold Key, Silver Key, Honorable Mention (3)
Max Luebbers ’16: Gold Key, Silver Key
Tess Hoenemeyer ’17: Gold Key, Honorable Mention
Yiguo Yu ’16: Gold Key
Priya Chopra ’18: Silver Key
Connor Pohl ’18: Silver Key, Honorable Mention
Emily Ray ’18: Silver Key
Emma Robitaille ’16: Silver Key (2)
Brad Dick ’16: Honorable Mention (2)
Grace Pettengill ’17: Honorable Mention
Haley Felder ’16: Honorable Mention
Holly Jacobs ’17: Honorable Mention
Jack Tereck ’17: Honorable Mention
Lauren Buczek ’16: Honorable Mention
Li Wei Tan ’16: Honorable Mention
Lindsey Hoffman ’19: Honorable Mention
