Lyla Shlon's painting "Substance Abuse" won an American Visions and Voices Award at the South Carolina Scholastic Art competition.

Once again, Richland Northeast High School art students took top awards at the South Carolina Scholastic Art Competition. This year, RNE students won a total of 12 awards putting RNE among the schools with the highest number of winners.

Palmetto Center for the Arts senior Lyla Shlon won four of the awards: a Gold Key for her overall art portfolio, the American Vision Award for her painting Substance Abuse, a Silver Key for her painting

One, and an award for her drawing Nine.

Allison Minsk, also a PCA senior, took two awards - a Gold Key for her art portfolio and an award for her painting Pasture Mates. A number of these works will be up for bid at RNE's spring art auction.

Richland Northeast's three Gold Key and American Vision winners will advance to the national competition. All artwork selected will hang in the Monsanto Gallery at Lander University through February 13. The awards ceremony and reception will take place on Saturday, January 31, at 2 pm.

The schools art winners by teacher are

Mary Catherine Newman

• Allison Minsk, art portfolio, Gold Key Award

• Lyla Shlon, Art portfolio, Gold Key Award

• Lyla Shlon, painting Substance Abuse, American Visions and Voices Award

• Sophia Jenkins, PCA senior,drawing Dead Silence, Silver Key Award

• Lyla Shlon, painting Rodenstock One, Silver Key Award

• Katherine Kelly, PCA junior, drawing Driller

• Allison Minsk, painting Pasture Mates

• Marcel Osborne, senior, drawing Train Mirage

 • Lyla Shlon, drawing Nine

• Alan Youngblood, PCA junior, mixed media Green Self Catherine Trosclair

• Emily Theus, PCA sophomore, sculpture Hocus Pocus

Nancy Underwood

• Anne Beaudette, PCA junior, photography digital Modern Audrey Hepburn

 For information about art programs at Richland Northeast, contact Mary Catherine Newman, department chair, at 699-2800 ext. 2713.