Goshen High School and C.J. Hooker Middle School didn’t just set a new record for Scholastic Art Awards received by the district this year, it was more than doubled. Just one year ago in 2024, Goshen’s entries set a new record that would only last one year, winning eight gold, 15 silver, and 12 honorable mentions. In 2025, the Gladiator’s artists established a new high in awards received: 23 Gold, 24 Silver and 38 Honorable Mentions. For seniors Lefa Brown and Katie Palau, the recognition reflects hard work they put in every day in Goshen’s art program.
Lefa began participating in the art program at Goshen in fifth grade. This year, she was recognized for multiple entries to the Scholastic Arts awards, including a Silver award for her piece Sheryl Crow in the drawing and illustration category. The work came out of an assignment Goshen’s Chrissy Pahucki gave students: draw a famous person on a map of where that person is from. “Sheryl Crow is from Missouri and I love her,” Lefa said. “So I was like: ‘I’ll draw her with pen and ink.’”
![Goshen student Lefa Brown smiles and holds her drawing of Sheryl Crow over a map of Missouri.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Lefa-Cheryl-Crow-1-683x1024.jpg)
Katie Palau has been a part of the art program in Goshen for as long as she can remember. Like Lefa, Katie received multiple awards from her Scholastic entries, including a Gold award for Mood Wheel, a wooden sculpture of herself with an acrylic background that has wheels in more ways than one.
“It’s only on wheels because it’s so heavy,” Katie said. “It’s on a gym scooter so that we can slide it around. It’s a big wooden wheel that spins and it stands up and there’s a cut out in front.”
![Katie Palau stands next to her wooden sculpture titled Mood Wheel.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Katie-vertical-683x1024.jpg)
Lefa feels like the awards Goshen students won this year through Scholastic are meaningful. “I think it’s getting recognition for your really hard work,” Lefa said. “A lot of these pieces that everyone did took three months. I think it’s nice to be recognized.”
“I worked super hard for six months,” Katie said. “It feels really good to have someone recognize it.”
![Ava Carroll stands with her painting titled "Stressing." The painting is a view from above a person at a desk with a child in her lap.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Ava-Carroll-Scholastic-Art-Awards-edited-scaled.jpg)
![Tahir Bernard holds his work "Stick and Stab" which is a person trying to climb onto a platform with the words stick and stab written on it. There are syringes injected into the person in a black and white photo/](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Stick-and-stone-1024x683.jpg)
See the award winning entries from Goshen students in this year’s Scholastic Arts awards here:
Goshen High School Awards
American Vision Award
![A painting of a girl looking in the mirror at herself. The girl is not smiling and her reflection looks back at her.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Nederost-I_m-Dissapointed-in-You-1-1024x708.jpg)
Paulette Nedorost, 9th grade, Digital Art
Gold Award
![A painting of a blue vase with a busy background. The student has the upper right of the photo signed with their name.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Barhorst-Shiny-Still-Life-1.png)
Shiny Still Life
Hannah Barhorst, 11th grade, Painting
![A drawing of a Native American wearing traditional headdress. The drawing is done on a map of Oklahoma.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Baumgardt-Kiowa-1-534x1024.jpeg)
Kaitlyn Baumgardt, 10th grade, Painting
![A painting of the side of a girl's face. The person is looking to the left of the painting.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Baumgardt-Laila-1-850x1024.jpeg)
Kaitlyn Baumgardt, 10th grade, Painting
![A woman with a hat and a jacket sits in a chair with her feet up. She is not smiling and she has glasses and red hair.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Baumgardt-Veronica-1.png)
Kaitlyn Baumgardt, 10th grade, Painting
![A person struggles to pull themself onto a platform with the title of the drawing on the floor. The person is injected with things and has syringes coming out of their shoulders.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Bernard-Stick-and-Stab-1.jpeg)
Tahir Bernard, 10th grade, Drawing & Illustration
![A person sits at a desk using a computer while a child sits in their lap and writes in a book. It is from the perspective of directly above these people's heads and there is no view of their face.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Carroll-Stressing-1-1024x831.jpeg)
Ava Carroll, 11th grade, Painting
![A donut with chocolate on it. A green background is behind the donut.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Corrigan-Dream-Donut-1-1024x1014.jpeg)
Fiona Corrigan, 11th grade, Painting
![A black and white bee on a finger. It is a close up that is as wide as the bee is long.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Krabbe-Bee-1-1024x1004.jpeg)
Alexa Krabbe, 8th grade, Drawing & Illustration
![A piano set with music and photos on it. A lot of shadow is around the piano in a room with glass doors on the wall in the background.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Krabbe-Pianissimo-1-768x1024.jpeg)
Alexa Krabbe, 9th grade, Photography
![A donut with colorful toppings in front of a blue background.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Navidad-Pebble-Donut-1-853x1024.jpeg)
Michelle Navidad, 9th grade, Painting
![A hand with black nail polish holds open a book.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Ortiz-Hands-1-768x1024.jpeg)
Onyx Ortiz, 12th grade, Painting
![A wooden sculpture with five faces of a girl that depict various moods. The faces are on a wheel and can be spun to line up with a neck and upper body below.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Palau-Mood-Wheel-1.jpeg)
Katie Palau, 12th grade, Sculpture
![A girl leans backward in rain boots and a poncho as sunshine comes through the clouds and it rains. The girl has red hair.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Peters-Sunny-Rain-1-1024x1024.png)
Sunny Rain
Gianna Peters, 11th grade, Digital Art
![Birds taking off from the ground while many birds still remain on the ground in an urban setting.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Quattrini-Take-Off-1-1024x693.jpg)
Riley Quattrini, 12th grade, Photography
![Cartoon caricatures of United States politicians hand a caricature of the Israeli prime minister money from a bag labeled "taxes." The prime minister is wrapped in a blanket like a baby with a Star of David on it and holds a missle labeled"U.S."](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Sanchezcastellanos-Family-Photo-1-1024x773.jpeg)
Sabine Sanchezcastellanos, 12th grade, Editorial Cartoon
![An older couple holds hands inside a camera body with springs from a clock on the floor. Behind them is a large clock that goes on a wall.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Tuthill-The-Passage-of-Time-1-575x1024.jpeg)
Arianna Tuthill, 12th grade, Photography
![A person holds their left hand in their right. The picture is gray and the hands are wrinkled.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Tuthill-Working-Hands-jpg-768x1024.jpg)
Arianna Tuthill, 12th grade, Photography
![A ladder leads up to a person with a light coming out of their head. The picture is red and dark.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Vidals-Hernandez-Acrophobia-1-715x1024.png)
Stefany Vidals Hernandez, 12th grade, Digital Art
![A girl listens to something out of her headphones while other students are occupied on a school bus. the sun is rising in the background.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Vidals-Hernandez-A-Day-in-the-Life-of-a-School-Bus-1-1024x647.jpg)
A day in the school bus
Stefany Vidals Hernandez, 12th grade, Digital Art
![A person stands in a tight space with their hand over their head and one eye looking out at the viewer of the work.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Vidals-Hernandez-Claustrophobia-1-715x1024.png)
Stefany Vidals Hernandez, 12th grade, Digital Art
Star Poodle – Gianna Peters, 10th grade, Film & Animation
Silver Award
![A woman in a dress looks sad as she looks out the window. An owl is in the window looking at her as its night time.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Barhorst-Moonlit-Muse-3-768x1024.png)
Hannah Barhorst, 10 grade, Digital Art
![Hands are reaching to the middle of the drawing with spider webs and spiders all over them. The picture is in black and white.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Bernard-Spider_s-Touch-2-911x1024.jpeg)
Tahir Bernard, 10th grade, Drawing & Illustration
![A drawing of Sheryl Crow over the map of Missouri.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Brown-Sheryl-Crow-2-1024x895.jpeg)
Lefa Brown, 12th grade, Drawing & Illustration
![Two girls playing the piccolo, one is near the top of the painting looking straight ahead and the other is at the bottom with her eyes closed.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Carroll-Piccolo-4.jpeg)
Ava Carroll, 10the grade, Painting
![A vase made by a student. The vase is blue and white with a bird and flowers on it.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Carroll-Vase-1.jpg)
Ava Carroll, 11th grade, Ceramics & Glass
![A black and white photo of a girl looking over her right shoulder away from the camera. Her head is slightly tilted backward.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Clark-BW-2-1024x683.jpg)
Liam Clark, 12th grade, Photography
![A photo of camera gear, a newspaper, laptop, and other things found on a desk. The photo is taken from above the table these things are on.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Clark-flatlay-4.jpg)
Liam Clark, 12th grade, Photography
![A chair in the middle of a seemingly abandoned room. The room has rocks all over and the concrete walls are exposed beneath a skylight.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Corrigan-Odontophobia-3-791x1024.jpeg)
Fiona Corrigan, 12th grade, Photography
![A donut with sprinkles in front of a red background.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Jiang-Sprinkle-Donut-3-1024x1013.jpeg)
Olivia Jiang, 10th grade, Painting
![A girl in a red dress looks off to the side sitting in a chair. The chair is in front of a black background.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Ortiz-Portrait-of-Mia-4-646x1024.jpeg)
Onyx Ortiz, 11th grade, Painting
![A girl sits without clothes on as her back is extended exposing an extended inside of her body which is red and connected to her back. The girl is in front of a purple and blue background.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Palau-Opening-Up-3-1024x584.jpeg)
Katie Palau, 12th grade, Sculpture
![Gretel grabs Hansel's arm while seeing something concerning, she looks scared. The view of the photo is from inside a house that appears to be made of candy. Lollipops line the road Hansel and Gretel are walking on.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Pogoda-Martinez-Hansel-and-Gretel-3-1024x791.jpeg)
Digital Art
![A photo looking up at empty balconies in a narrow street. The balconies have plants on them and it is a sunny blue sky.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Quattrini-Balconies-3-782x1024.png)
Riley Quattrini, 12th grade, Photography
![A girl sits in plants looking at something she picked up. The setting is outside in nature with trees and plants surrounding the girl who is looking away from the viewer.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Quattrini-Samara-Lee-3-1024x704.jpeg)
Riley Quattrini, 12th grade, Painting
![A colorful painting of a lake in front of trees. There are yellow and orange and green trees next to this lake.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Taylor-Minnewaska-4-1024x795.jpeg)
Morgan Taylor, 12th grade, Painting
![A hand is on a bible. The photo is black and white.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Tuthill-1-2-1024x1024.jpeg)
Arianna Tuthill, 12th grade, Photography
![A hand is grabbing someone's elbow, the photo is taking from waist height. The photo is black and white.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Tuthill-2-768x1024.jpg)
Arianna Tuthill, 12th grade, Photography
![A person scrolls through their phone, the photo is taken from table level is black and white.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Tuthill-3-1024x936.jpg)
Arianna Tuthill, 12th grade, Photography
![A hand is using a mouse, a keyboard is visible. The photo is black and white.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Tuthill-5-jpg-768x1024.jpg)
Arianna Tuthill, 12th grade, Photography
![Items are scattered on a table in full color. The items are heart shaped glasses, heart lights, photos, stickers, bracelets, and others.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Tuthill-The-flat-lay-4-1024x819.jpeg)
Arianna Tuthill, 12th grade, Photography
![Hands holding each other close up. The finger nails are long and the person is wearing a sweater. The photo is black and white.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Tuthill-The-Wear-of-hands-3-1024x1024.jpg)
Arianna Tuthill, 12th grade, Photography
![A crowd of people are engaging with a robot standing behind a sign reading "Totally not A.I." while the robot holds a picture. The picture the robot is holding is next to a real girl that appears to be referencing it as her own and seems upset the robot has it. The girl is behind a sign that says "Art."](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Vidals-Hernandez-AI-vs-Art-4.jpeg)
Stefany Vidals Hernandez, 12th grade, Editorial Cartoon
![A woman has a snake wrapped around her upper body while she looks up with her eyes covered. The photo is red and dark.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Vidals-Hernandez-Opidiophobia-4-1024x1024.png)
Stefany Vidals Hernandez, 12th grade, Digital Art
Honorable Mentions
![A cartoon of people mining rocks with pick axes. Above them a person flings money into the air next to a giant iPhone as people sheer. A woman is sad with cobalt on her back and a girl pulling her away from the area.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Barhorst-Cobalt-768x1024.png)
Hannah Barhorst, 11th grade, Editorial Cartoon
![Two people look up at a pile of pears. They appear to be in a grocery store.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Baumgardt-Savings-762x1024.jpeg)
Kaitlyn Baumgardt, 10th grade, Painting
![A drawing of a person with no face in front of a shattered background. The hole in the person's face is the "O" in the name "Monty." The drawing is in black and white and the head has a sword and a crown with spiders.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Bernard-Monty_s-King-677x1024.jpeg)
Tahir Bernard, 10th grade, Drawing & Illustration
![A woman in a black robe holds a snake. There are tree branches behind them above a black background with ornaments on the tree. The snake is looking directly at the woman.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Brown-Garden-of-Eden-765x1024.jpeg)
Lefa Brown, 12th grade, Painting
![A nun is looking up above a pink background and is pointing to her teeth which have a grill. She is wearing a tunic and veil and has a cross necklace.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Brown-Nuns-Can-Have-Grills-Too-725x1024.jpeg)
Lefa, Brown, 12th grade, Painting
![Two nuns smoke in front of a black background. The painting is from their face level.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Brown-Smoke-Break-801x1024.jpeg)
Lefa Brown, 12th grade, Painting
![A nun is holding her hands together next to her head as light rays come out of her head behind her.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Brown-Holy-755x1024.jpeg)
Lefa Brown, 12th grade, Painting
![A nun is walking in low level eater. Below the water is her foot with seaweed and a fish.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Brown-Underwater-768x1024.jpeg)
Underwater, Lefa Brown, 12th grade, Painting
![Three nuns are putting on their makeup in front of a mirror with a yellow background. The viewer is on the other side of the mirror they are using.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Brown-We_re-Late-1024x755.jpeg)
Lefa Brown, 12th grade, Painting
![Four girls in different positions in a laundry room. One carries clothes in a basket, one on the floor, one on a phone, and one dancing. All the girls are identical wearing a red shirt and checkered black and white pants.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Carroll-Laundry-Night-1024x749.jpeg)
Laundry Night
Ava Carroll, 10th grade, Painting
![Food is on a white background. There's an apple, orange slice, gushers and chips.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Carroll-Still-Life.jpeg)
Ava Carroll, 10th grade,
Drawing & Illustration
![Boats on a late, photo is taken from the beach. It is getting dark and there is blue sky to the left of some clouds.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Corrigan-Calm-After-the-Storm-899x1024.jpg)
Fiona Corrigan, 12th grade, Photography
![A black and white drawing of things on a table. There are shoes, a rubik's cube, a watch and other things.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Corrigan-Lost-and-Found-1024x1020.jpeg)
Lost and Found
Fiona Corrigan, 11th grade
Drawing & Illustration
![A side view of a house with chipped paint that is abandoned. The photo is through a few trees that have grown next to the side of the house.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Krabbe-Abandoned-768x1024.jpeg)
Abandoned
Alexa Krabbe, 8th grade, Photography
![A sculpture of a face with blood and cuts all over it. There are no eyes and the mouth is closed. It is in front of a black background.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Layman-The-Sealed-Secret-835x1024.png)
Kelsey Layman, 12th grade, Sculpture
![A black and white drawing of things on a table. There are vases, patterns similar to a zebra on the table, a beach shell as well.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Ortiz-Charcoal-Still-Life-1024x858.jpeg)
Onyx Ortiz, 12th grade, Drawing & Illustration
![A caricature of U.S. politicians with razor sharp teeth behind caution tape with a sign "your body. OUR choice." The politicians have their hands on "Plan B."](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Ortiz-No-Longer-Your-Choice-1024x776.jpeg)
Onyx Ortiz, 12th grade, Editorial Cartoon
![A black and white self portrait of a girl with earrings, a necklace, and curly hair in front of a gray background.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Ortiz-Self-Portrait.jpeg)
Self Portrait
Onyx Ortiz, 12th grade, Drawing & Illustration
![A crow on a log looking to the right over it's shoulder. The photo is black and white.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Ortiz-The-Crow-676x1024.jpeg)
The Crow
Onyx Ortiz, 12th grade, Drawing & Illustration
![A black wolf is walking with one of the front paws in the air. It is looking at the viewer. The background of the drawing is black dots and lines and white all around.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Ortiz-Wolf-in-the-Woods-1024x709.jpeg)
Wolf in The Woods
Onyx Ortiz, 12th grade, Drawing & Illustration
![A girl holds a star cupped in her hands with black all around her.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Palau-Acceptance-770x1024.jpeg)
Acceptance
Katie Palau, 12th grade, Painting
![A girl looks to the right wearing a dress in front of a white background. Her hands are near each other in front of her body.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Palau-Molly-Portrait-764x1024.jpeg)
Katie Palau, 12th grade, Painting
![A girl holds an orange slice in front of her right eye. The picture is pink, orange, green and yellow.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Palau-Orange-You-Glad-759x1024.jpeg)
Katie Palau, 12th grade, Painting
![A girl in a white dress in front of a blue background. There are blue fish swimming toward something in water above her head.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Palau-Serenity-691x1024.jpeg)
Katie Palau, 12th grade, Painting
![A girl looks up at a planet from below. She is much bigger than the planets and there are other planets all around her.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Palau-The-Big-Picture-819x1024.jpeg)
Katie Palau, 12th grade, Painting
![A close up shot of a bride and groom dancing. the picture is from the bottom of their necks to their waist.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Quattrini-5-31-24.jpeg)
Riley Quattrini, 12th grade, Painting
![Two people painted in a close up. Their eyes are out of frame as one person hugs the other from behind.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Quattrini-Tangle.jpeg)
Riley Quattrini, 12th grade, Painting
![A person sits on a bus with green and white out the window. They are facing away from the window with their head in one of their hands.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Quattrini-8-16-24.jpeg)
Riley Quattrini, 12th grade, Portfolio (Art)
![A bride has her veil lifted up above her head by someone else in a dress. Her face is covered by the other person's arm.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Quattrini-9-27-03.jpeg)
In A Time
Riley Quattrini, 12th grade, Portfolio (Art)
![A photo taken looking out at buildings from the perspective of inside of a narrow cave.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Quattrini-Espana-768x1024.jpg)
Riley Quattrini, 12th grade, Photography
![A woman's head is looking off to the right with flowers in her hair. There is yellow in the background behind her.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Quattrini-Familial-Flowers.png)
Riley Quattrini, 12th grade, Painting
![A photo taken looking up from below A spiraling building. There are windows on the building and it is a sunny day.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Quattrini-Going-Up-768x1024.jpg)
Riley Quattrini, 12th grade, Photography
![A painting of a girl looking off to the left with a hat and brown fur coat. The girl has long hair and earrings.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Quattrini-Lefa-en-Sargent.png)
Riley Quattrini, 11th grade, Painting
![A girl is holding flowers with a purse around her shoulder and a jacket on with one hand going up to her face. The painting cuts off at her nose.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Quattrini-2-20-23.jpeg)
Riley Quattrini, 12th grade, Painting
![Two girls look at the viewer of the photo. They appear to be in a car and are very close together.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Taylor-Siaterhood-1024x768.jpeg)
Morgan Taylor, 11th grade, Painting
![A person walks past a wall with green and blue lights. The person is walking in shadows and is looking away from the graffiti and unsettling words on the wall.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Sanchezcastellanos-Paranoia-1024x628.png)
Sabine Sanchezcastellanos, 12th grade, Portfolio (Art)
![A girl is pink and screaming while she is rips off an outer shell of a smiling face. There is a blue background behind her.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Sanchezcastellanos-Freedom-779x1024.png)
Sabine Sanchezcastellanos, 12th grade, Portfolio (Art)
![A person looks off to the right of the viewer of the painting., She is in a space helmet and an American flag is reflecting off her helmet.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Sanchezcastellanos-Longing-845x1024.png)
Sabine Sanchezcastellanos, 12th grade, Portfolio (Art)
![A man walks with giant goldfish floating next to him. There is a sign that reads "Pet friendly zone."](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Sanchezcastellanos-Acceptance-1024x672.png)
Sabine Sanchezcastellanos, 12th grade, Portfolio (Art)
![A man has purple and blue glasses with the outline of a person in them as he looks at the viewer of the picture. He has long blond hair and there are green streaks on the edges of the picture.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Sanchezcastellanos-Memory-765x1024.png)
Sabine Sanchezcastellanos, 12th grade, Portfolio (Art)
![A person has the top of their head open and their brain exposed. They are looking off to the left of the viewer. There is a white background with colorful lines behind him.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Sanchezcastellanos-Vulnerable-780x1024.png)
Sabine Sanchezcastellanos, 12th grade, Portfolio (Art)
![A person in a suit is surrounded by red and yellow flowers. They are looking off to the right of the painting.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Vidals-Hernandez-Anthophobia-715x1024.png)
Stefany Vidals Hernandez, 12th grade, Digital Art
C.J. Hooker Middle School Awards
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.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Anna-Shapiro-CONSUMERISM-1024x621.jpg)
Anna Shapiro, 8th grade, Editorial Cartoon
![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.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Anna-Shapiro-Gundham-701x1024.jpg)
Gundam
Anna Shapiro, 8th grade, Comic Art
![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.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Camilla-Perez-Modern-Days-1024x868.jpg)
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.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Liesl-McGuiness-Sunny-Winter-Morning-768x1024.jpg)
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.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Mateo-Vanichpong-Barbosa-Playing-Into-Color-1024x771.jpg)
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.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Matthew-Castillo-Valencia-The-Wild-Flower-1024x998.jpg)
Matthew Castillo Valencia, 8th grade, Painting
![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.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Giuliana-Kyles-I-am-Trapped_-683x1024.jpg)
Giuliana Kyles, 8th grade, Sculpture
Silver Award
![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.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Anna-Shapiro-dusty-solitary-808x1024.png)
Anna Shapiro, 8th grade, Photography
![Flowers in a pot in front of a window with the setting sun and a stone wall painted around the window.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Camille-Pedrosa-God_s-Creation-665x1024.jpg)
Camille Pedrosa, 8th grade, Painting
![A butterfly with orange and black wings is on a leaf in a green and nature setting.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Cora-Massaro-Orange-Butterfly-768x1024.jpg)
Cora Massaro, 8th grade, Photography
![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.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Cora-Massaro-Poison-Dart-Frog-768x1024.jpg)
Cora Massaro, 8th grade, Photography
![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.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Cora-Massaro-Sad-Starfish-768x1024.jpg)
Cora Massaro, 8th grade, Photography
![A black cat in weeds is looking at the camera with green eyes.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Daniela-Gomez-Redondo-Those-eyes-768x1024.jpg)
Daniela Gomez-Redondo, 8th grade, Photography
![A tree branch going over an abandoned wall with trees and grass surrounding.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Liesl-McGuinness-Breaking-Through-768x1024.jpg)
Liesl McGuinness, 8th grade, Photography
![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.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Liesl-McGuinness-Pollinator-771x1024.jpg)
Liesl McGuinness, 8th grade, Photography
![A yellow and purple and pink painting with white and blue. The shapes are yellow with purple outlines.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Maiya-Nurse-beauty-piece-1024x999.jpg)
Maiya Nurse, 8th grade, Painting
![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.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Marissa-Monteiro-The-Blue-Dimond-562x1024.jpg)
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.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Mia-Rucker-Cutting-Out-Inner-Beauty.jpg)
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.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Mia-Rucker-Reflection.jpg)
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.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Nishi-Patel-A-Dessert-Beauty.jpg)
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.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Nora-McAndrews-Pressure-1024x926.jpg)
Nora McAndrews, 8th grade, Sculpture
![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.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Serafina-Marku-Cloudy-Beach-Days-768x1024.jpg)
Serafina Marku, 8th grade, Photography
![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.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Thehan-Lekamalage-Deforestation.jpg)
Thehan Lekamalage, 8th grade, Editorial Cartoon
![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.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Thehan-Lekamalage-Exposed-Under-The-Eclipse-832x1024.jpg)
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.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Anna-Shapiro-Messenger.jpg)
Anna Shapiro, 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.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Anna-Shapiro-Wealthy.jpg)
Anna Shapiro, 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.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Anna-Shapiro-You-Stand-Out-Y_know-1024x657.jpg)
Anna Shapiro, 8th grade, Drawing & Illustration
![A butterfly with orange, white and black wings is on a long green leaf next to another butterfly. There are leaves all over the photo.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Cora-Massaro-Resting-Butterfly-768x1024.jpg)
Cora Massaro, 8th grade, Photography
![A racoon sits on the ground in sticks and rocks next to weeds and leaves all over the photo.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Cora-Massaro-Trapped-Racoon-768x1024.jpg)
Cora Massaro, 8th grade, Photography
![Daisys are all over the photo with sunflowers growing below their pedals.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Gabriella-McManus-Daisys-768x1024.jpg)
Gabriella McManus, 8th grade, Photography
![An ocean animal is reaching up through a net with shells on a blue ground.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Gianna-Lamparillo-Escaping-771x1024.jpg)
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.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Giuliana-Kyles-The-Lighthouse-of-my-Childhood-768x1024.jpg)
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.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Giuliana-Kyles-Escape-768x1024.jpg)
Giuliana Kyles, 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.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Giuliana-Kyles-Night-Life-768x1024.jpg)
Giuliana Kyles, 8th grade, Photography
![A picture of pink flowers up close to a camera with the bottom of the flower blurred out on the ground.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Thehan-Lekamalage-A-Pink-Beauty-1024x683.jpg)
Thehan Lekamalage, 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.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Cora-Massaro-Angel-in-the-Sky-755x1024.jpg)
Cora Massaro, 8th grade, Photography
![An eye looking directly into the camera. The photo is from below the eye to above the eye brow.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Leah-Gorman-Look-768x1024.jpg)
Leah Gorman, 8th grade, Photography
![A hamster on a blanket with it's ears back and looking past the camera to the left.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Leah-Gorman-Loving-animals-768x1024.jpg)
Leah Gorman, 8th grade, Photography
![Bubbles floating in a kitchen with tole floors, a door and a fridge in the background.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Matthew-Castillo-Valencia-Bubbles-in-the-Kitchen.jpg)
Matthew Castillo Valencia, 8th grade, Photography
![A pink, blue, and green sky above houses with mountains in the distance.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/May-CoppersCostantino-The-Guilding-of-Souls-768x1024.jpg)
May CoppersCostantino, 8th grade, Photography
![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.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Melania-Civitano-Sculpture-of-Plants-576x1024.jpg)
Melania Civitano, 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.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Nishi-Patel-An-Earth-with-Trash-1-1024x993.jpg)
Nishi Patel, 8th grade, Mixed Media
![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.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Nishi-Patel-An-Earth-with-Trash-2-1024x978.jpg)
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.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Nishi-Patel-An-Old-City.jpg)
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.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Rhyanne-Ruffy-Sunset-on-the-Lake.jpg)
Rhyanne Ruffy, 8th grade, Photography
![Staples are arranged in a way to look like buildings on a white floor with white walls.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Camilla-Perez-Steel-City_-1024x683.jpg)
Camila Perez, 8th grade, Architecture & Industrial Design
![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.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Serafina-Marku-Weight-of-Words.2-1-771x1024.jpg)
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.](https://www.gcsny.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Serafina-Marku-Weight-of-Words-1-771x1024.jpg)
Serafina Marku, 8th grade, Sculpture