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Folsom Cordova Sweeps Scholastic Art And Writing Competition
February 28, 2014
FCUSD students won eighty-one awards from this year’s Scholastic Art and Writing Competition, in various categories including Ceramics, Photography, Digital Art, Sculpture, Drawing, and Painting. This staggering amount of winners is the most the district has ever received from this competition.
Folsom High School received seventy-one of the eighty-one total awards. In all, they had 11 Gold Key winners, 2 Gold Key Portfolio winners, 26 Silver Key winners, 1 Silver Key Portfolio winner, 29 Honorable Mention winners, and 2 Honorable Mention Portfolio winners. It was an outstanding achievement that of the 17 total Gold Key Portfolio winners regionally, 2 of those were Folsom High students.
The winners, Crystal Granillo and Danika Schultz, will have their entire 8-piece portfolios continue on at the national level and be judged as a whole on their complexity, conceptuality, and skill.
Usually, students enter a number of individual pieces to be judged for Gold Keys, Silver Keys, or Honorable Mentions. However, in a student’s senior year, they can elect to submit a “Senior Art Portfolio” instead of individual pieces. This portfolio consists of eight of their strongest works, and is judged as a whole.
Last year, Crystal Granillo won a Gold Key at the regional level for an individual piece, and moved on to win a Silver Key at the national level. Her piece was displayed at Carnegie Hall in New York City, and she traveled there to see her piece at the awards ceremony. With another Gold Key award, this time for her entire portfolio of works, she hopes she may win at the national level again.
“I feel proud that I won and am excited to possibly have the opportunity of going to New York City for the national awards ceremony again.” said Gold Key Portfolio winner Crystal Granillo.
Vista Del Lago High School received ten awards, including 1 Silver Key winner and 9 Honorable Mention winners. Silver Key winner Elizabeth McClain won in the category of photography. Last year, McClain took home a Gold Key for Ceramics.
“Winning another award in this competition it makes me feel like I have accomplished something, that I will continue developing my art skills, and I will take the opportunity to enter in more competitions down the road,” McClain said.
It is a very prestigious honor to receive an award in the National Scholastic Arts and Writing Competition. We wish to all that advanced to the national level the best of luck in the competition.
Elizabeth McClain's Winning Photograph, "Love Story"
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