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  • Loveland High School Students receive many regional scholastic art awards

    Loveland High School Students receive many regional scholastic art awards

    The “Gold Key” painting by Loveland Junior Ronan Wolfer

    Loveland, Ohio – Congratulations to the following LHS Art Students for their record amount of awards in the 2025 Scholastic Art Awards. All Gold Key Awarded artwork will now be judged at the National level.

    Receiving Gold Key Awards: Piper Schaeffer (Portfolio), Ronan Wolfer, David Lorek, Bella Rogers, Jackson Manly, and Andrew Sichak.

    Receiving Silver Key Awards: Andrew Sichak (Portfolio), David Lorek, Harrison Hentz, Sohani Gauniyal, Madeline Spencer, Jackson Manly, Logan Shiverski, and Ronan Wolfer.

    Receiving Honorable Mention: Cameran Cook, Chase Dahlke, Brooke Freytag, Harrison Hentz, Luke Jacobs, David Lorek, Jackson Manly, Cass McKnight, Brooke Morris, Bella Rogers, Norah Schmidt, Logan Shiverski, Andrew Sichak, Madeline Spencer, and Ronan Wolfer.

    The annual Scholastic Art and Writing Awards are the nation’s longest-running recognition initiative for creative students (grades 7-12) and the largest source of scholarships for young artists and writers. The Art Academy of Cincinnati (AAC) is producing the Regional Scholastic Art and Writing Awards of Southwest Ohio, Northern Kentucky and Southeast Indiana on their urban campus in historic Over-the-Rhine.

    CLICK to view a slide show of the student’s art.

    The Exhibition Opening is Friday, February 7th from 5PM until – 8PM. The Exhibit is open to the public and continues thru February 16th, 9AM until 9PM at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, 1212 Jackson Street in  Cincinnati.

  • Meet LHS photographer Sohani Gauniyal

    Meet LHS photographer Sohani Gauniyal

    by David Miller

    Loveland, Ohio – The photography of Sohani Gauniyal caught my eye at the Whistle Stop Pottery Affaire in Historic Downtown Loveland on September 3.

    Sohani is a sophomore at Loveland Highschool. She said, “I first got into photography a couple of years ago, and ever since then I’ll go out in my backyard from time to time and take pictures of plants and the like.” She also says she also enjoys writing and rock climbing.

    I later contacted Sohani and asked her if we could share the photos in Loveland Magazine. I told her that if the photo of the chess match was blown up to about 5 feet tall and mounted from the floor up, people would start to walk right into the room because the chess board looked so much like a tiled floor. She said, “The chess picture features my dad, and a chess set I got when my mom visited her family in India. What’s funny is that we set up the board so the move would be legal if you studied it, but due to the angle the black knight is coming from, it looks like an illegal move.”

    “The coral is from my dad’s fish tank. I got a picture of it by putting my lens directly up against the glass of the tank. Thankfully, the color came out all right. Generally, the dark blue light we use to simulate “night” in the tank messes with my camera, but here it made the coral glow a nice neon color.”

    Sohani accepts commissioned work and can be contacted at: sohani.gauniyal@gmail.com