Congratulations to the Gold Key award winners in the 2023 Maine Region Scholastic Art Awards!

The awardees for individual Gold Keys are:

Student Name Title of Work Category — Individual Works School
Punnisa Amornsirikul Daydream Photography Thornton Academy
Miranda Birks shattered & mirrored Drawing & Illustration Portland Arts & Tech High School
Grace Black Fast, Fresh, Food! Photography Scarborough High School
Grace Black All the Pieces Photography Scarborough High School
Sophia Blanco Ocean Treasures Ceramics & Glass Winthrop High School
Sophia Blanco Ramen With My Dad Printmaking Winthrop High School
Lydia Blood Desperate Noir Photography Brunswick High School
Dorcas Bolese Stand Still Digital Art Yarmouth High School
Finn Brydon Fool's Errand Comic Art Portland Arts & Tech High School
Ivy Buxton Our Colorless Lives Digital Art Portland Arts & Tech High School
Erik Carson Return Part One * Comic Art Edward Little High School
Brynna Casey Clay * Film & Animation Scarborough High School
Emma Comparato Bridges Burn Photography Brunswick High School
Maia Cook Childhood Haunt Painting Berwick Academy
Hannah Cronin ¿American Dream? Editorial Cartoon sponsored by The Herb Block Foundation Freeport High School
Emm Dearing Help me Digital Art Bangor High School
Orion Dubois Life After Death Painting Oak Hill High School
iris fitzpatrick sister Drawing & Illustration Freeport High School
Julia Fomichenko Set In Foam Sculpture Thornton Academy
Finnian Furtney Centre Point Tower Painting Freeport High School
Finnian Furtney An Example of an Unfair Power Dynamic Painting Freeport High School
Elsie Gendron Childhood Hikes Drawing & Illustration Sanford High School
Taylor Giles Wind and Waves Ceramics & Glass Kennebunk High School
Sagara (Saga) Hart Don't Look Under There Photography Cape Elizabeth High School
Cormac Hluska color of happy Digital Art Freeport High School
Minka Holtrop Fern Drawing & Illustration Freeport High School
Mia Hornschild-Bear Architecture Investigation 6 Mixed Media Freeport High School
Mia Hornschild-Bear A Series of Sensibility Drawing & Illustration Freeport High School
Sophia Israel Maine Summers Mixed Media Nokomis Regional High School
Fiona Jason Take It Slow Painting Portland Arts & Tech High School
Ava Katz Five Painting Kents Hill School
Ava Katz Wonderworld Painting Kents Hill School
Ava Katz lets sit Painting Kents Hill School
Alexis Kiffer Observing the birds Printmaking Morse High School
Marina Kirmani Crown of Thorns Fashion -
Amelia LaCascia The Wanderers Digital Art Kennebunk High School
Brooke Laliberte Counting lesson Photography Rangeley Lakes Regional School
Olivia Landberg Something About The Mirror Mixed Media Freeport High School
Mischa Landgarten Sensory Drawing & Illustration Berwick Academy
Mischa Landgarten The Raven Drawing & Illustration Berwick Academy
Aurora Martel Stinger Drawing & Illustration Auburn Middle School
Ali McArdle Imprisoned Ceramics & Glass Kents Hill School
Ali McArdle Burnt Out Ceramics & Glass Kents Hill School
Beckett Mundell-Wood Bangor Public Library Architecture & Industrial Design Bangor High School
Erin Norbert Comfort in the Cattails Painting Maine Virtual Academy
Cassidy O'Dee Self Portrait Drawing & Illustration Noble High School
Nate Onken Swamp critter. Sculpture Berwick Academy
Eli Palleschi Some Things on a Table Drawing & Illustration Thornton Academy
Eli Palleschi Animation Reel!!! Film & Animation Thornton Academy
Xavier Peng The Queen's Jubilee Photography Presque Isle High School
Isabel Peters Blue light Drawing & Illustration Yarmouth High School
lillian runs after "Peace not War" Design Oxford Hills Tech School
Peter Sapiro-Mitten Nautilus Sculpture Berwick Academy
Nick Scott Market Man Photography Kents Hill School
Caroline Sheets Solitaire Photography Oxford Hills Tech School
Ella Shilkin Portrait 1 * Photography Kents Hill School
Madalyn Simopoulos Sitting Duck Ring Jewelry Portland Arts & Tech High School
Anita Smith Sightless Digital Art Scarborough High School
Anita Smith Nature's Allure Comic Art Scarborough High School
Anita Smith Dreams Without a Future Painting Scarborough High School
Jazmyn Smith Deus In Absentia Digital Art Mt Ararat High School
Cosette Spier I Can't See You Through the Grass Photography Cape Elizabeth High School
Cosette Spier The Ocean Is Blurry Photography Cape Elizabeth High School
Lexi Surette Smoke Screen Photography Sacopee Valley High School
Ivy Turbide INCUBATOR Mixed Media Thornton Academy
Maya Vinson Fallen * Drawing & Illustration Scarborough High School
Lily West Do you feel all the fish swimming to the surface? Drawing & Illustration Freeport High School
Jillian Wight The Ol' Ball and Chain * Printmaking Freeport High School
Jillian Wight Obsession Drawing & Illustration Freeport High School
Samuel Woodman Turnbuckle Movement Sculpture Kennebunk High School
Halle York Pit Stop Drawing & Illustration Freeport High School

* American Visions Nominee

Gold Key Portfolios

Name Portfolio Title School
Nora Castonguay Coming of Age Kents Hill School
Finnian Furtney The Whimsical Animal Experiments Freeport High School
Mia Hornschild-Bear How Horizontal and Vertical Elements can Juxtapose to Impact the Appearance and Functionality of an Architectural Design Freeport High School
Jillian Wight Perceptions of Prettiness Freeport High School

Header Image

Ali McArdle, Burnt Out, Gold Key, Ceramics & Glass, Kents Hill School (cropped)