C.J. Hooker Students Receive Scholastic Art Awards

C.J. Hooker Middle School is proud to showcase the art work of our students for their entries into the Scholastic Arts Awards this year! Our students received 8 Gold, 19 Silver, and 25 honorable mentions for their work.

Congratulations to all of our artists that worked hard this year on their entry!

Gold Awards

A person's eyes have messaging from advertisements in them a face from the nose to the eyebrows looks distraught. There are words all over the image like consume what you're fed, 50% off, buy today.
CONSUMERISM
Anna Shapiro, 8th grade, Editorial Cartoon
This design has lines vertical and horizontal over a blue box. There are thick black lines separating the boxes. The picture is taken in front of a white background.
modern days
Camila Perez, 8th grade, Architecture & Industrial Design
A photo of trees in a field with the sun rising behind them. There are small hills in the foreground and the sky is blue behind a thin layer of clouds.
Sunny Winter
Morning Liesl McGuinness, 8th grade, Photography
A saxophone is playing music with a blue frame around the edge of the paper and music notes are coming out and traveling off the paper in a bending and curving line of musical notes.
Playing into color
Mateo Vanichpong Barbosa, 8th grade, Mixed Media
A painting consisting of pink, yellow, blue, purple and white. The painting is a close up of a flower and the inside with the pollen.
The Wild Flower
Matthew Castillo Valencia, 8th grade, Painting
A cartoon style person with a weapon is running through frames of different settings. There is a space ship in one, that the person is stepping on. There are black lines coming out of the person's back.
Gundam
Anna Shapiro, 8th grade, Comic Art
A sculpture of a cage hanging down by a string with lights all over from a structure with books hanging from the ceiling of the cage. There are papers on the ground below the cage. There are books on the structure arms that hold the cage up.
I am Trapped
Giuliana Kyles, 8th grade, Sculpture

Silver Award

A starfish holds onto a rock as the bottom half of the starfish is on the side of the rock. It's legs are touching the sand on the floor.
Sad Starfish
Cora Massaro, 8th grade, Photography
Flowers in a pot in front of a window with the setting sun and a stone wall painted around the window.
God’s Creation
Camille Pedrosa, 8th grade, Painting
A little blue frog is under a plant looking up at it. The photo is taken from the ground and has a lot of plants in the background.
Poison Dart Frog
Cora Massaro, 8th grade, Photography
A butterfly with orange and black wings is on a leaf in a green and nature setting.
Orange Butterfly
Cora Massaro, 8th grade, Photography
A tree branch going over an abandoned wall with trees and grass surrounding.
Breaking through
Liesl McGuinness, 8th grade, Photography
A black cat in weeds is looking at the camera with green eyes.
Those eyes
Daniela Gomez-Redondo, 8th grade, Photography
A person is sitting on a cement floor with their arms around their legs in a dark area. The entire structure is cement and it is dark behind the person and above on the ceiling.
dusty & solitary
Anna Shapiro, 8th grade, Photography
A yellow and purple and pink painting with white and blue. The shapes are yellow with purple outlines.
beauty piece
Maiya Nurse, 8th grade, Painting
A bee reaching into a blue flower on a long stem covered in other blue and white flowers. Behind the bee is a road with grass on either side.
Pollinator
 Liesl McGuinness, 8th grade, Photography
A blue dress with white and blue shiny design above the waist and a light blue skirt below on a red model meant to hold a dress.
The Blue Dimond
Marissa Monteiro, 8th grade, Fashion
A pomegranate is cut open on a cutting board with a knife next to it covered in red juice. The seeds are still in the pomegranate and there is juice on the cutting board.
Cutting Out Inner Beauty
Mia Rucker, 8th grade, Photography
A wall made of rocks has a blue glow on it with water reflecting up onto the bending rock structure out of frame of the photo.
Reflection
Mia Rucker, 8th grade, Photography
A photo of a sunset in the dessert. People are standing on sand hills and there is a person on a four wheeler riding around in the sand.
A Dessert Beauty
Nishi Patel, 8th grade, Photography
A sculpture of a pencil with erasures for a head is holding up a ball of paper as it struggles to stay balanced.
Pressure
Nora McAndrews, 8th grade, Sculpture
A person stands next to a tree saying More room! More food! Less Trees! and their shirt reads Less trees more humans. A person in the background has a weapon pointed at wildlife.
Deforestation
Thehan Lekamalage, 8th grade, Editorial Cartoon
A beach with the sunset in the background. There are clouds over the sun as light gets through under the gray and makes the sky tinted yellow.
Cloudy Beach Days
Serafina Marku, 8th grade, Photography
An American flag is planted on a planet as stars and ships fly around in the dark sky. The sun is above with an eclipse taking place.
Exposed Under the Eclipse
 Thehan Lekamalage, 8th grade, Painting

Honorable Mentions

A black bird is sitting on a "Notice" sign at a beach with a person in the background and mountains by water.
Messenger
Anna Shapiro, 8th grade, Photography
A black bird is sitting on a "Notice" sign at a beach with a person in the background and mountains by water.
Resting Butterfly
Cora Massaro, 8th grade, Photography
A person stands in front of what appears to be a peep hole in a door where they are pointing to themself in front of an elevator. They are holding up their hand. There is a bulletin board on the wall and a fire extinguisher as well.
You Stand Out, Y’know?
 Anna Shapiro, 8th grade, Drawing & Illustration
Daisys are all over the photo with sunflowers growing below their pedals.
Daisys
Gabriella McManus, 8th grade, Photography
A racoon sits on the ground in sticks and rocks next to weeds and leaves all over the photo.
Trapped Raccoon
Cora Massaro, 8th grade, Photography
A racoon sits on the ground in sticks and rocks next to weeds and leaves all over the photo.
Escaping
Gianna Lamparillo, 8th grade, Sculpture
A lighthouse behind trees with a path leading to it with a fence along the path to the left of the trees. The sky is blue with a few clouds.
The Lighthouse of my Childhood
Giuliana Kyles, 8th grade, Photography
A dark hallway is near the camera while the lights are on in the distance down the hallway. It is in a building with tile walls.
Escape
Giuliana Kyles, 8th grade, Photography
White buildings with columns and a stone floor overlook water with a mountain in the background. The photo is taken through an opening in the buildings.
Wealthy
Anna Shapiro, 8th grade, Photography
A photo of the Hard Rock Cafe with advertisements and large glowing signs around it. There are people walking in the street and people selling things on the sidewalks.
Night Life
Giuliana Kyles, 8th grade, Photography
A statue of a person with wings is at the top of a monument with other sculptured people below. The sun is behind the structure and the photo is taken from within the shadow.
Angel in the sky
Cora Massaro, 8th grade, Photography
A picture of pink flowers up close to a camera with the bottom of the flower blurred out on the ground.
A Pink Beauty
Thehan Lekamalage, 8th grade, Photography
An eye looking directly into the camera. The photo is from below the eye to above the eye brow.
Look
Leah Gorman, 8th grade, Photography
Bubbles floating in a kitchen with tole floors, a door and a fridge in the background.
Bubbles in the Kitchen
Matthew Castillo Valencia, 8th grade, Photography
A hamster on a blanket with it's ears back and looking past the camera to the left.
Loving animals
Leah Gorman, 8th grade, Photography
A pink, blue, and green sky above houses with mountains in the distance.
The Guilding of Souls.
May CoppersCostantino, 8th grade, Photography
Artwork of garbage all over the place next to a trash can. There is paper money, crumpled up paper, and other things.
An Earth with Trash
Nishi Patel, 8th grade, Mixed Media
A pond with a person sculpted out of plants next to the water. There are trees and plants all around the sculpture with clouds in the sky above.
Sculpture of plants
Melania Civitano, 8th grade, Photography
A large waterfall with a sun and flowers around a water area with a swan swimming around all made of different fabrics, clay, and painted-on structures.
An Earth with Trash 2
Nishi Patel, 8th grade, Mixed Media
Buildings on either side of a narrow street in black and white. There are cars parked on the road and a car coming down the road. There is a brick sidewalk next to the road.
An Old City
Nishi Patel, 8th grade, Photography
A lake under a sun-setting sky. There are trees around the water. The sky is blue and orange and yellow and has clouds in it.
Sunset on The Lake
Rhyanne Ruffy, 8th grade, Photography
A weight with a handle covered in newspapers with words like work harder and study. It is on a blue structure over a wooden square that is black with bubbles on it.
Weight of Words
Serafina Marku, 8th grade, Sculpture
A weight with a handle covered in newspapers with words like work harder and study. It is on a blue structure over a wooden square that is black with bubbles on it.
Weight of Words
Serafina Marku, 8th grade, Sculpture
Staples are arranged in a way to look like buildings on a white floor with white walls.
steel city
Camila Perez, 8th grade, Architecture & Industrial Design

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