CONGRATULATIONS!
Borger High School junior, and Graphic Design student, Kayli Spickes has received a Gold Medal in the 2020 Scholastic Art & Writing competition. Her piece, “Fowl Play” was created in Adobe CC using Photoshop tools. More than 110,000 students submitted nearly 320,000 works of art digitally in December. In the first round of competition Kayli received 4 Gold Keys with her digital artwork submitted and 1 Gold Key with a sculpture piece and a Silver Key for another digital piece. The Gold Keys awarded her allowed them to move on to National competition. Kayli had to wait until late March to find out how she would do at National level. Only 3,000 works received a National Medal which places Kayli within the top 1% of all submissions! Her winning piece will be published on the Online Galleries at artandwriting.org in June. Her name will also be listed in the Yearbook 2020, which features a selection of work by National Medalists.
Kayli is busy making a video that will be uploaded with her artwork and submitting various forms required of her. The National ceremony will be held at Carnegie Hall in NYC on June 4, 2020. Her artwork will be digitally displayed May 29-June 14, 2020. There are many events scheduled for the National winners, at this time.
“I have had the honor and pleasure of working with this young artist since her freshman year, but, heard about her talent early on from the middle school art teacher, Ms. Rhea Ann Morrow. She has taken Art I under the instruction of Ms. Washer, an currently Adv. Art under Mrs. Renick, and in her 3rd year of Graphic Design with myself, Mrs. Kerr. Kayli has been to state art competition (VASE) twice and qualified this year as well with a sculpture piece. She is talented in all areas of art! She has designed numerous posters for our school, helped fellow teachers with t-shirts and various other art projects throughout the years. Too many accolades to mention! She is an asset to our school and community.”
Once again, congratulations to this most talented artist, Kayli Spickes!