Lucas Schnoor, NHS Senior, received a Scholastic Art & Writing Gold Key for his ceramic lamp. Lucas threw the form on the wheel and sculpted the forest elements to create this lamp sculpture titled, Secrets Within.
The University of Iowa’s Grant Wood Art Colony (GWAC) awarded three students from Iowa schools with the Grant Wood Legacy Prize for outstanding visual arts at a writing the University of Iowa Scholastic Celebration as part of GWAC’s annual contest which aims to identify and uplift young artists.
The judges selected recipients from over 400 visual arts entries from Iowa students in media categories Grant Wood worked on: jewelry, painting, drawing and illustration, printmaking, design, ceramics and glass, and mixed media.
The Grant Wood Legacy Prize is a collaboration with the Belin-Blank Center, the Iowa and Midwest Region-at-Large Scholastic Art & Writing Awards affiliate. Award recipients are highlighted on the Grant Wood Art Colony Website
The Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, the nonprofit organization that presents the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards awarded Lucas with the 2025 Scholastic Art & Writing National Gold Medal for Exceptional Work in Ceramics and Glass.
Nearly 110,000 teens entered more than 310,000 original works of art and writing to the 2025 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Lucas’s artwork was selected by some of the foremost leaders in the visual and literary arts for excellence in originality, skill, and the emergence of a personal voice or vision. His work will be published in the online galleries at artandwriting.org. His name will also be listed in Yearbook 2025, a companion to our annual art and writing anthologies that feature selections of works by National Medalists.
Lucas received a nice scholarship and plans to attend the Kansas City Art Institute in Kansas City, MO.
