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Scholastic Announces Dalton Award Winners in Art and Writing
The annual Scholastic Art and Writing Awards recognized 25 Dalton students for their excellence in photography, film & animation, drawing & illustration, journalism, poetry, flash fiction, and other art and literary categories.
The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards is a series of regional and national competitions where students from across the United States compete in 29 art and writing categories. Each year, leaders in the visual and literary art industries judge over 300,000 submissions by criteria such as originality, technical skill, and personal voice or vision.
Dalton students from 8th through 12th grade won 43 total accolades, including 13 coveted Gold Key awards, which are automatically considered for national-level recognition. Congratulations to all of our Scholastic winners for their deep commitment to creativity and the arts!
| Scholastic Art Award Winners - 2020 | ||||
| Name | Grade | Award | Category | Title |
| Eli Diker | 9 | Gold Key | Photography | Hannah Dripped Developer |
| Eli Diker | 9 | Gold Key | Photography | Penelope |
| Lauren Kim | 12 | Gold Key | Film & Animation | journey |
| Dylan Lee | 11 | Gold Key | Architecture & Industrial Design | Articulated Whale-Bone Lamp |
| Dylan Lee | 11 | Gold Key | Future New | Jigsaw Hidden Opening Box |
| Eli Diker | 9 | Silver Key | Photography | Juggler in Union Square |
| Dagmar Rothschild | 9 | Silver Key | Photography | Madagascar, 2019 |
| Dagmar Rothschild | 9 | Silver Key | Photography | Soldier, Israel, 2018 |
| Nina Sloan | 12 | Silver Key | Art Portfolio | Bound: Narratives in Book Arts |
| Eli Diker | 9 | Honorable Mention | Photography | Man Playing Chess in Union Square |
| Eli Diker | 9 | Honorable Mention | Photography | Times Square Statue of Liberty |
| Phoebe Oblak | 9 | Honorable Mention | Drawing & Illustration | Kira |
| Dagmar Rothschild | 9 | Honorable Mention | Photography | Grand central station, 2019 |
| Theodore Strauss | 12 | Honorable Mention | Photography | Captain on the Nile |
| Theodore Strauss | 12 | Honorable Mention | Photography | Enchained |
| Theodore Strauss | 12 | Honorable Mention | Photography | Golden Maze |
| Theodore Strauss | 12 | Honorable Mention | Photography | Smooth Talker |
| Rebecca Wasserman | 10 | Honorable Mention | Photography | Gridded Portrait |
| Scholastic Writing Award Winners - 2020 | ||||
| Name | Grade | Award | Category | Title |
| Cole Corper | 7 | Gold Key | Flash Fiction | Blank Space |
| Zoe Ehrenkranz | 10 | Gold Key | Poetry | Ashes to Ashes, Saline Song |
| Ciara Flaherty | 10 | Gold Key | Poetry | My Grandmother's House |
| Ciara Flaherty | 10 | Gold Key | Poetry | Discomfort |
| Christopher Kim | 11 | Gold Key | Journalism | The Impact of Japanese Colonial Rule on Current Bilateralism between the Republic of Korea and Japan. |
| Kaitlyn Pohly | 10 | Gold Key | Poetry | Mama |
| JJ Yu | 11 | Gold Key | Poetry | not crucified: worn away/Post- /Permafrost |
| JJ Yu | 11 | Gold Key | Poetry | flats/cleaner/the walk |
| Leo Yu | 9 | Gold Key | Critical Essay | A Warning |
| Leo Yu | 9 | Gold Key | Critical Essay | Morals, Management, & Machiavelli |
| Ines Chomnalez | 11 | Silver Key | Poetry | Sundays |
| Zoe Ehrenkranz | 10 | Silver Key | Poetry | The Fire Escape,Claustrophobia |
| Christopher Gumina | 11 | Silver Key | Poetry | The Trek |
| Christopher Gumina | 11 | Silver Key | Short Story | Bad Luck |
| Luke Huang | 9 | Silver Key | Poetry | Silence |
| Minelle Jeddy | 9 | Silver Key | Personal Essay & Memoir | Raana, Means Radiant |
| Minelle Jeddy | 9 | Silver Key | Critical Essay | From Icarus to Amelia |
| Julia Miyasaka | 8 | Silver Key | Poetry | Resurrection |
| Nina Sloan | 12 | Silver Key | Critical Essay | Fallen Father |
| Rebecca Wasserman | 10 | Silver Key | Critical Essay | Saltcellar Sellers: An Analysis of Cross- Cultural Artistic Fusion |
| JJ Yu | 11 | Silver Key | Poetry | Long March -- 29,063 -- Blue Down |
| JJ Yu | 11 | Silver Key | Poetry | Olfactory Bulbs: both of them upon me |
| Mirabelle Zhang | 8 | Silver Key | Poetry | Fears |
| Ciara Flaherty | 10 | Honorable Mention | Poetry | The Room |
| Lauren Kim | 12 | Honorable Mention | Poetry | jonathan |
| Daniel Slater | 9 | Honorable Mention | Humor | Gods of New York: A Buzzfeed Listicle |
| Alexander Weinberg | 7 | Honorable Mention | Short Story | The Journey of a Golfer |
| Naomi Yanos | 10 | Honorable Mention | Poetry | White Collar Crimes |
| JJ Yu | 11 | Honorable Mention | Critical Essay | The World Turned Upside Down |
| Lucas Zhang | 11 | Honorable Mention | Critical Essay | Dependence and Enslavement in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy |
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