MSA students cop 171 awards
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Literary Arts, Visual Arts and Media Arts students at Brookhaven-based Mississippi School of the Arts (MSA) captured 171 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards – 92 Honorable Mentions, 51 Silver Keys, 27 Gold Keys and a prestigious American Visions Award – during the 2025-2026 school year.
Gold Key and American Visions art advanced to national competition and the winners are on display through May 10 The Mississippi Museum of Art at Jackson. Writing award winners will be recognized at a awards ceremony at the Eudora Welty House in the Spring.
For more than 100 years, the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards have recognized the vision, ingenuity, and talent of youth nationwide, and provided opportunities for creative teens to be celebrated.
Each year, students at the Mississippi School of the Arts (MSA), as well as other schools across the state and nation, participate in the competition. Thousands of submissions are juried state-by-state to see which will advance to the national level.
Mississippi School of the Arts is no stranger to Scholastics, having received state and national awards since the school’s inception.
The awards are presented by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, whose mission is to identify students with exceptional artistic and literary talent and present their remarkable work to the world. Students receive opportunities for recognition, exhibition, publication, and scholarship.
In the Literary Arts Discipline, instructed by Dr. Nadia Alexis, 10 students received Gold Key Awards, including one Senior portfolio, 23 students received Silver Key Awards, including two Senior portfolios, and 46 received Honorable Mentions, including two Senior portfolios. They were:
James Ballard (Sr) – 6 Awards ( Silver Key, 4 Honorable Mention including portfolio Honorable Mention)
Dorothea Cates-Foster (Jr) – 3 Awards (2 Silver Key, 1 Honorable Mention)
Elayjah Earles (Jr) – 12 Awards (2 Gold Key, 3 Silver Key including Silver portfolio, 7 Honorable Mention)
Kemarrion Galmore (Jr) – 6 Awards (1 Silver Key, 5 Honorable Mention)
Stephanie Hartmann (Sr) – 8 Awards (3 Silver Key including Silver portfolio, 5 Honorable Mention)
Sarah House (Jr) – 2 Awards (2 Honorable Mention)
Quentin McClinton (Sr) – 1 Award (1 Honorable Mention)
Lydia Nytes (Jr) – 1 Award (1 Honorable Mention)
Lela Reed (Jr) – 5 Awards (1 Gold Key, 4 Honorable Mention)
Lily Ross (Jr) – 3 Awards (2 Silver Key, 1 Honorable Mention)
Robin Russell (Jr) – 2 Awards (2 Honorable Mention)
Patrick Ryan (Sr) – 9 Awards (5 Gold Key, 3 Silver Key, 1 Honorable Mention)
Richie Stover (Sr) – 9 Awards (2 Gold Key including Gold portfolio, 1 Silver Key, 6 Honorable Mention)
Nick Scott (Jr) – 3 Awards (1 Silver Key, 2 Honorable Mention)
Kierstyn Warner (Sr) – 6 Awards (2 Silver Key, 4 Honorable Mention including portfolio Honorable Mention)
Richie Stover received an award for a submission entered through the Academic English Department instructed by Tobie Lambert.
Cassidy Hodges (Jr Visual) received 3 Awards (3 Silver Key) for self-submissions.
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