Solanco High School student Olivia Stoltzfus is the recipient of the 2019 C.X. Carlson Senior Art Portfolio Scholarship Award. The "emerging artist" scholarship with a value of $11,500 is awarded by The Red Raven Art Company and the C.X. Carlson Cultural Trust in Lancaster.
In July, Olivia's work will be featured at Red Raven, were she was honored at an awards ceremony last month.
"Olivia has won a long list of awards for her outstanding work in the visual arts,'' Solanco High School art teacher Candace Rakers said in a news release.
"In the 2018 and 2019 Scholastic Art Awards and Young Artists Awards competitions, Olivia's work has been awarded the highest awards, which includes numerous special awards, portfolio awards, gold, silver and honorable mention awards. Olivia was awarded two scholarships to attend the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia in 2017 and 2018."
Olivia was the November 2017 Emerging Artist at the Hamilton Club of Lancaster, and her work was published on the cover of the Southern Lancaster Historical Society Calendar in 2018. As an accomplished writer, Olivia's work has been published in the 2018 winter edition of Philadelphia Stories, Jr.
Her work in the visual arts has been featured in this newspaper and on LancasterOnline as well as in exhibitions at the Lancaster Museum of Art, the Demuth Museum, Millersville University and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.
"Olivia's strong aesthetic sensibility, technical expertise, determination, discipline, perseverance, open-mindedness and strength of spirit infuse her work with great integrity,'' Rakers said. "This distinguished recognition honors Olivia's deep investment and level of sophistication inherent in her work."
