Artwork by: Sarah Steverson, 12
​National Gold Medal

About Scholastic

 In 1923, a publishing company called Scholastic founded a contest to encourage and reward creativity in the classroom. The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards are the country’s longest –running and most prestigious scholarship and recognition program for creative students in grades 7-12. Nearly 350,000 works of art and writing were submitted this year by students from around thecountry.

We did a quick inventory of the awards that UPAD has received since their first year participating (2010) and came up with 281 and 11 National Medals. This past year alone, it was a whopping 74 awards!

UPAD scholars won big at this year’s 2020 Scholastic Competition! They brought home a robust, 72 individual, 2 portfolio awards and 3 National Medals; and are now ranked 2nd in the Midwest Region! 

They surpassed high performing private schools with advanced art programs such as, Country Day and Cranbrook. According to UPAD art teacher Mara Magyarosi-Laytner and Scholastic's 2019 Outstanding Educator Award recipient,  "This is the largest group of awards that we have ever received."

National Gold Medalists and their teachers were invited to a special ceremony at Carnegie Hall in June.  Due to the pandemic, the actual ceremony was canceled but we do want to recognize Sarah Steverson for her Gold Medal Award along with her teacher Mara Magyarosi-Laytner who would have been there representing our community! Congratulations to you both!

Here is a link to the virtual event!

National Level Awards

12 - Sarah Steverson- Print 4

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9 - Dominic Porter - Print 4

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10 - Jace Baldwin - Print 1

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 Southeastern Michigan Region Awards

Portfolio Awards

Ciara Flournoy

Honorable Mention Portfolio
12th Grade
Teacher: Mara Magyarosi-Laytner

Assumptions

My portfolio "Assumptions" is a series of images of young teens who have been judged and misunderstood. My portfolio showcases how a person appears on the outside versus how they feel on the inside, and the goal is to get people to be more mindful when meeting someone for the first time or when having a conversation with someone, and not to assume. I asked my subjects to pose "natural" and act as if they were meeting me for the first time, and asked each of them personal questions to discover more about them and their mental state. I wrote the most overwhelming responses in red acrylic paint on the images in various strokes and patterns. Using red acrylic paint symbolizes emotions like anger and passion (emotions found in all of my subjects.) The photos are in black and white to give an unhappy feel. The dominant principle used was emphasis. Emphasis is shown when looking at the writing and paint splatters on the images. It stands out from the background at catches your eye. This supports the overall goal in which people shouldn't assume they know a person and should get to know and understand them before they judge them.

12 - Ciara Flournoy - Scholastic Portfolio 1

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12 - Ciara Flournoy - Scholastic Portfolio 2

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12 - Ciara Flournoy - Scholastic Portfolio 3

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12 - Ciara Flournoy - Scholastic Portfolio 4

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12 - Ciara Flournoy - Scholastic Portfolio 5

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12 - Ciara Flournoy - Scholastic Portfolio 6

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12 - Ciara Flournoy - Scholastic Portfolio 7

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12 - Ciara Flournoy - Scholastic Portfolio 8

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Keirian McRae

Silver Key Portfolio
12th Grade
Teacher: Mara Magyarosi-Laytner

L'edificio Nero (The Black Building)

Architecture can be seen as the medium that all cities around the world depend on to convey their artistic vision. Naturally each city is foreign from the next, therefore its design language will be different. These instances vary widely from contemporary, sharp and sleek design to rounded and polite designs that are meant to say different things. Essentially, the vision you have, whether you are designing or just observing art work, is what showcases what the piece is really trying to communicate. The objective of my portfolio is to portray the architecture in the cities of two different countries through one lens that will converge their contrasting design languages, resulting in the observer seeing and understanding the foreign landmarks as they would their native setting. The designated countries, Italy and the United States, are rich in their own history and setting, so visualizing them through one concept makes them perfectly uniform in the way they are displayed.

12 - Keirian McRae - Scholastic Portfolio 1

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12 - Keirian McRae - Scholastic Portfolio 2

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12 - Keirian McRae - Scholastic Portfolio 3

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12 - Keirian McRae - Scholastic Portfolio 4

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12 - Keirian McRae - Scholastic Portfolio 5

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12 - Keirian McRae - Scholastic Portfolio 6

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12 - Keirian McRae - Scholastic Portfolio 7

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12 - Keirian McRae - Scholastic Portfolio 8

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Individual Awards

9 - Dominic Porter - Printer 13

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10 - Micah Sanders - Print 10

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9 - Dominic Porter - Print 11

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9 - Dominic Porter - Print 10

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9 - Dominic Porter - Print 9

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9 - Dominic Porter - Print 7

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9 - Dominic Porter - Print 6

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10 - Zamia Wilson - Print 1

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11- LeAndra Williams - Print 1

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11- Alyana Swain - Print 3

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11- Alyana Swain - Print 2

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12 - Rickiya Strawther - Print 2

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Honorable Mention Film & Animation 

Honorable Mention, Daniel Giles, 12th Grade, Teacher: Mantrell Goodrum
Honorable Mention, Micah Sanders, 10th Grade, Teacher: Mara Magyarosi-Laytner
​University Prep Art and Design 
A. Alfred Taubman Center for Design Education
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Detroit, MI 48202
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