A Toast of Praise to Dominican seniors Riley Bonnet, Sarah Miller, Alivia Christiansen, and junior Hannah Solomon, who have received awards in this year’s Scholastic Arts and Writing Competition for the Southern Region-at-Large. This highly competitive contest seeks to recognize outstanding merit in originality, skill, and the emergence of personal voice and vision.

The Alliance for Young Artists & Writers is pleased to present the following 2025 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. 

Honorable Mention:

Accomplished works submitted to local programs showing great skill and potential.

Riley Bonnet ’25, Painting, Any Port in a Storm

Sarah Miller ’25, Drawing & Illustration, Italy’s Eyes of Eighty Years

Alivia Christiansen ’25, Drawing & Illustration, Have a Slice

Hannah Solomon ’26, Mixed Media, Rosey Shoes

The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards are presented by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers. The Alliance is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to identify students with exceptional artistic and literary talent and present their remarkable work to the world through the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. The Awards give students opportunities for recognition, exhibition, publication, and scholarships. Students across America submitted nearly 340,000 original works this year in 29 different categories of art and writing.