Paper: Houston Chronicle
Date: Thu 04/09/2009
Section: ThisWeek
Page: 5
Edition: 3 STAR
Pershing school pupil wins art award
Ruth Lin, an eight-grader at Pershing Middle School, is one of four Houston ISD students to win a 2009 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.
More than 140,000 works of art and writing from throughout the United States were submitted to The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards of 2009 by students in grades 7-12. The awards are the nation's longest-running and largest program for creative teenagers in the visual and literary arts.
Each work is reviewed by a panel of arts professionals for the following criteria: originality, technical skill, and emergence of personal vision or voice. The prestigious awards signify to parents, teachers, community, and colleges that a student is an accomplished artist or writer.
The awards will be presented at Carnegie Hall in New York City in early June.
HISD's winners are:
Ruth Lin: Pershing Middle School, 7000 Braes Blvd. Gold medal for her drawing Scout;
A number of our students got several medals from Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo student art contest 2013. The best one is Victoria Xie from HISD, she obtained the gold medal. Her art work “King Amount Bluebonnets" was sold $27,000 at the auction.
In 2016, our students got harvest from Celebrating Art Contest . Tonyia Hu obtained Top Ten Winner in 7-9 grade group; Amaris Shi got Top Ten Winner in 4-6 grade group. And Sherry Hu toke the medal of 'High Merit' from 10-12grade group.
Because of our excellent art training and discipline, many of our younger students have won prestigious awards in a number of art competitions. Due to these awards and their extracurricular activities in our school, they achieved great success by being accepted into the college of their choice.
