Penn AP Drawing students earn Scholastic honors

Penn High School AP Drawing students Ashton Hanover and Lucia Lozar have earned two of the five Northwest Indiana/Southwest Michigan Region’s American Vision Nominee awards through the Scholastic Art competition. Those are the top awards, selected from among all the Gold Key works in the area, which are selected from over 4,000 entries.

 

Hanover, a senior at Penn, also won a Notre Dame Award.

 

Both regional awards include scholarship checks.

 

Hanover was also awarded one of five National American Vision Medals, given to the top five artists selected from Indiana regions. These represent only two percent of all Scholastics Award winners. He will be invited to receive his medal this summer at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

 

The National American Vision also comes with a scholarship that is in addition to the financial awards from Notre Dame, and the Regional American Vision.

 

Hanover is the second student of Penn Art Instructor Anne Napoli in the past three years to earn a national award through Scholastic. Penn alum Charlie Sailor won one of only three National Herb Block Editorial Cartoon Awards for an artwork done in Penn’s Advanced Drawing Class when she was a senior. She received a $2,500 scholarship with the award at Carnegie Hall and then her artwork was displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through the summer that year.