2024-2025 FOX CHAPEL AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT STATE OF THE SCHOOLS
FINE ARTS & MUSIC RECOGNITIONS
• The Fox Chapel Area School District was named among the 2025 Best Communities for Music Education. This is the 14th year that the district has received this designation. The award recognizes districts that demonstrate outstanding music achievement and that provide an exceptionally high commitment and access to music education for all students.
• Junior Mira Owens’ artwork was selected for the 2025 National Art Honor Society Juried Exhibition. Mira’ s piece, titled“ Reminiscence,” is a drawing using all the ink in one pen.
• Junior Nora Kelley won an award in the painting and drawing category as part of the 2025 Youth Art Month Exhibit for her piece titled“ Feline’ s Feast.” Youth Art Month is sponsored by the Council for Art Education and is a celebration of the visual arts. Five students’ work was also chosen for the exhibit: juniors Ava deBruyn, Raina Guzman, Nora Kelley, and Mira Owens, and freshman Lily Rice.
• Four Fox Chapel Area High School students had pieces accepted into the 2025 Youth Metal Arts Showcase: senior Tessa Allan and juniors Claire Conti, Emma Kuhns, and Sophia Tai.
• Fox Chapel Area High School’ s literary magazine“ Tapestry” was named a first-place winner in the 2024 American Scholastic Press Association’ s Annual Contest / Review for Scholastic Yearbooks, Magazines, and Newspapers.
• Three students qualified for national competition by winning Gold Key awards for their entries in the Pittsburgh Region of the 2025 Scholastic Art Awards: juniors Raina Guzman and Mira Owens, and seventh-grader Samuel Ettinger.
• Three high school students, senior Colette Walter and juniors Emma Kuhns and Umayma Trebak, had their artwork featured as part of the Society for North American Goldsmiths 2025 Annual Juried Student Exhibition.
• Eight high school students were selected by audition to perform with Pennsylvania Music Educators Association( PMEA) All-State Ensembles. The students chosen for the PMEA All-State Chorus were seniors Alaina OKunewick and Mya Wilson. The students selected for the PMEA All-State Orchestra were senior Marina Dunham( bassoon) and juniors Elliott Broyles( trombone), Michael Costello( bass), Charles Hahl( cello), Jack Murray-Krezan( percussion), and Joshua Shah( flute).
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