Sacred Heart Greenwich Wins at 2025 Connecticut Regional Scholastic Art and Writing Awards Competition

January 28, 2025

Sacred Heart Greenwich Students Win at Connecticut Regional Scholastic Art and Writing Awards Competition

Eight students from Sacred Heart Greenwich's Upper School won awards in the 2025 Connecticut Regional Scholastic Art Awards program. This program is a professionally juried event which recognizes only the best CT student artwork. All CT art students in public, parochial and private schools are encouraged to participate and submit high quality artwork. As an Arts Education based program, this group recognizes teachers as the central connection to the completion of successful student submissions.

Student artwork is juried by professional artists and university art faculty and is selected on merit for inclusion in a state-wide art exhibition held at the Hartford Art School. Beyond the honor of being selected for this high quality exhibit, students may be awarded Gold or Silver Keys and Honorable Mention Awards in each of 18 media categories.

Congratulations to the following Upper School students:

Helena Amano '28, Silver Key, "BOOM." Mixed Media (Teacher: Mr. Peck)

Kaitlyn Bentley, 27, Honorable Mention, "Standing in the Orange." Photography (Teacher: Mr. Williamson)

Clara Bonomo '26, Honorable Mention, "Woven Earth." Film & Animation (Teacher: Mr. Pisani)

Lila Caruso '25, Silver Key, "INFRARED." Film & Animation (Teacher: Ms. Stewart)

Vivianna Chin '29, Silver Key, "Infused Within Me." Digital Art (Teacher: Mrs. McLaughlin)

Lily Dallesandro '25, Gold Key, "Sunsets." Film & Animation (Teacher: Mr. Oquendo)

Abigail Gschwind '25, Silver Key, "Kimball." Photography (Teacher: Mr. Williamson)

Madeline Walker '26, Silver Key, "The Window's Gaze." Painting (Teacher: Mr. Peck)

To view the student's art images, please click here: 

Additionally, Connecticut winners may be chosen to receive these special state level awards:
• American Visions Award for Connecticut                               
• The Hartford Art School Scholarships
• Connecticut Women Artists Awards
• Gold Portfolio Awards.
• Numerous cash and product awards in media categories.

Please go to http://www.ctartawards.net/ to see the full list of the 2025 CT Regional Scholastic Art Awards Winners
 

Sacred Heart Greenwich Upper School students and recipients of the 2025 Connecticut Regional Scholastic Art Awards celebrate with their teachers. 

Eleven Upper School students from Sacred Heart Greenwich earned 16 Writing awards in the 2025 Connecticut Regional Scholastic Awards program. This competitive program, where entries are judged anonymously, awards written work in a variety of genres that reflect the Scholastic Writing Awards’ core values of skill, originality, and personal voice, and vision. Judged by some of the most prestigious leaders in the literary arts, the Scholastic Writing Awards celebrates authenticity, craft, and earnest expression. Previous jurors have included Langston Hughes, Billy Collins, Ocean Vuong, and Judy Blume. Writers like Truman Capote, Joyce Carol Oates, and Amanda Gorman are former Scholastic Writing Awards recipients.

Sacred Heart Greenwich Upper School writers earned 12 Honors Mentions, 2 Silver Keys, and 2 Gold Keys across four writing categories: Poetry, Short Story, Personal Essay & Memoir, and Critical Essay.

Congratulations to the following Upper School Student Writers:

Natasha Arakal ‘25, “Measurement of Time,” Personal Essay & Memoir, Honorable Mention

Lily Carroll ‘25, “Green Thumb,” Short Story, Honorable Mention (Teacher: Dr. Cristina Baptista)

Laurel Cary ‘27, “Forever Untouchable,” Poetry, Honorable Mention (Teacher: Dr. David Smigen-Rothkopf)

Arianna Chin ‘26, “Breath of Life,” Poetry, Honorable Mention (Teacher: Dr. Cristina Baptista)

Arianna Chin ‘26, “To the Death of the Soul,” Poetry, Gold Key (Teacher: Dr. Cristina Baptista)

Ellie Furman ‘26, “Echoes of Deadly Footprints,” Poetry, Honorable Mention (Teacher: Dr. Cristina Baptista)

Carolyn McBreen ‘27, “Caught,” Poetry, Honorable Mention (Teacher: Dr. William Mottolese)

Carolyn McBreen ‘27, “Unsure,” Poetry, Honorable Mention (Teacher: Dr. William Mottolese)

Tanner Shanley ‘26, “Forgive But Never Forget,” Poetry, Honorable Mention (Teacher: Dr. Cristina Baptista) 

Emily Shull, '25, “Instituting Progress by Breaking the Glass Ceiling,” Critical Essay, Honorable Mention (Teacher: Mrs. Sarah Martin)

Emily Shull, '25, “Miss Emily Grierson: The Fallen and Faded Portrait of Time,” Critical Essay, Gold Key (Teacher: Dr. Cristina Baptista)

Emily Shull, '25, “Epitaphs,” Personal Essay & Memoir, Honorable Mention (Teacher: Dr. Cristina Baptista)

Brianna Timlin, '26, “The mirror.” Poetry, Honorable Mention (Teacher: Dr. David Smigen-Rothkopf)

Madeline Walker, '26, “Cherished Links,” Personal Essay & Memoir, Silver Key (Teacher: Dr. Cristina Baptista)

Madeline Walker, '26, “Two of Me, Three of Us,” Poetry, Silver Key (Teacher Dr. Cristina Baptista)

Annika Wise, '25, “Shadows of Tomorrow,” Short Story, Honorable Mention (Teacher: Dr. Cristina Baptista)

Sacred Heart Greenwich Upper School students and recipients of the 2025 Connecticut Regional Scholastic Writing Awards.