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)