The Everhart Museum of Natural History, Science & Art, in affiliation with the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers, announces the 2026 Scholastic Art Awards American Vision Nominees, Gold Key Award winners, Silver Key Award winners and Honorable Mention for the Northeastern PA Region. An exhibition of all award-winning work will be held at the museum through March 1.<\/p>\n
The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, established in 1923, is the nation\u2019s longest-running and most prestigious art and writing recognition program for students in grades seven through 12. The Everhart has hosted the arts portion of the competition for the Northeastern PA Region since 2018, judging entries and holding an exhibition for award recipients. For 2026, the museum received more than 500 submissions of artwork from junior and senior high school students from over 40 schools within a 15-county area, exceeding previous years\u2019 totals.<\/p>\n
The awards in order of prestige are American Vision Nominee, Gold Key, Silver Key, and Honorable Mention. All Regional Gold Key Award recipients move on to the national competition to compete for a National Gold Key Award. Five of the Northeastern PA Region Gold Key Award recipients were recognized as American Visions Nominees, which automatically advances them to the national competition to compete for an American Visions Award for their region.<\/p>\n
American Vision Nominee: Casper Karr, \u201cCasper\u2019s Blue Period,\u201d drawing, grade 11, Northwest Area Jr.\/Sr. High School<\/p>\n
Gold Key Awards: Aurora Carey, \u201cSam & Ella,\u201d painting, grade 12, Wilkes-Barre Area High School\/Creative and Performing Arts Academy; Casper Karr, \u201cCasper\u2019s Blue Period\u201d and \u201cLet Yourself Grow,\u201d drawings, grade 11, Northwest Area Jr.\/Sr. High School; Evie Yanaitis, \u201cMrs. Raven\u2019s Enigma,\u201d painting, grade 12, Wilkes-Barre Area High School\/CAPAA.<\/p>\n
Silver Key Awards: Arimeya Janov, \u201cSilenced,\u201d painting, grade 10, Wilkes-Barre Area School District\/CAPAA<\/p>\n
Honorable Mention: Serenity Drew, \u201cLayered,\u201d painting, grade 11, Wilkes-Barre Area School District\/CAPAA; Sophia Golanoski, \u201cBeach Day,\u201d painting, grade 10, and \u201cThe Lost Dog,\u201d drawing, grade 10, Dallas Senior High School; Orliemily Medina Padron, \u201cSloth Dance Party,\u201d painting, grade nine, Wilkes-Barre Area School District\/CAPAA; Fiona Piazza, \u201cMom,\u201d printmaking, grade 12, Dallas Senior High School; Levi Walski, \u201cI\u2019m Sorry, Your Book Is Overdue,\u201d painting, grade 12, Wilkes-Barre Area School District\/CAPAA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Everhart Museum of Natural History, Science & Art, in affiliation with the Alliance for Young Artists and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[182,803,28,233,178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-108315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-local-news","9":"tag-luzerne-county","10":"tag-pennsylvania","11":"tag-schools","12":"tag-scranton","13":"tag-scranton-headlines","14":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}