CBNA
Students Receive National Recognition In The Scholastic Art And
Writing Awards Program
Paper Adventures: A Self-Portrait by CBNA senior Julie
Souryavong a Scholastic Art and Writing Award national silver
medal winner.
Coe-Brown Northwood Academy is pleased to announce that senior
Julie Souryavong from Northwood and freshman Brian Downer of
Strafford were recognized in the 93rd annual Scholastic Art &
Writing Awards competition. Julie received a silver medal
for her photograph entitled Paper Adventures: A Self-Portrait.
This portrait was constructed by first capturing a beautiful
sunset over a Goose Pond. She then constructed paper boats
and paper cranes. Photographing each of these from the
same perspective as the original sunset. Finally she
photographed herself in a confident pose and pull all the images
seamlessly into one photograph.
Brian also received a silver medal for
his essay entitled #PeaceforParis: Notes on the Realization of
Personal Hypocrisy, which begins “If you have ever been afraid
of yourself, perhaps you will understand. Not necessarily in a
physical sense, not in the way that you’re afraid of beating
yourself up, but in a different way. When you’re afraid of your
own hypocrisy, afraid of your own prejudices, unsure of your own
moral standings. You tell yourself you feel one way, and yet,
with an increasing sense of dread, you notice yourself acting
the other way on a daily basis…”
Three Hundred twenty thousand submissions from the across the
country were received this year and just 2400 were recognized
nationally. Receiving silver medals in the competition
places these talented students in the top one percent of all
submissions nationally. Julie and Brian join the ranks of many
notable artists and writers from this past century including
Andy Warhol, Truman Capote, Joyce Carol Oates, Sylvia Plath,
Paul Newman, Robert Redford and the renowned filmmaker Ken Burns
who will receive the program’s Alumni Achievement Award this
year, as well many, many other famous talented writers and
artists. Congratulations to Julie and Brian for this national
honor.