LTHS artists earn national medals

Two Lyons Township High School student-artists earned silver medals in the 2021 National Scholastic Art Awards. Junior Megan Prock, of Burr Ridge, medaled in Digital Art and senior Kaitlyn Easterday, of LaGrange, earned a medal in Printmaking.

Only 10% of the artwork that advances to the national level will win a national medal, putting a piece awarded a medal in the top 1% of works submitted nationally.

In total, 11 pieces of artwork created by nine LT artists advanced to the Scholastic Art Awards national competition in New York. LT’s winning entries were among more than 230,000 works of art and writing submitted from students across the country. The Scholastics Art & Writing Awards are the most prestigious national award competition given in the visual arts for high school students. The process starts at the regional level where approximately 10% of submitted works are awarded the highest regional award for submissions, a regional Gold Key. All Gold Key winners are then judged at the national level.