Lovejoy ISD is proud to announce that 4 LJVA Artists were recognized as 2025 YoungArts Winners!
Lane Beller (‘24), Dana Colston (‘25), Caroline Matthews (‘25), and Veronica Ye (’25), were recognized among 800 of the nation’s most accomplished emerging artists in the visual, literary and performing arts.
Out of more than 11,000 applicants, these Lovejoy artists were selected as 4 of the 33 winners selected for this prestigious honor in visual art and design. These 4 distinguished award winners set a new record for LJVA in this worldwide competition; traveling to Miami for an all-expenses-paid week-long learning intensive where they will learn from top artists and professors in their field, creating work, collaborating, and interviewing for the nation’s top art prize; The Presidential Scholar In the Arts award.
Representing artists from across the globe, YoungArts award winners will have opportunities for financial, creative, and professional development support throughout their entire careers. Selected through the organization’s prestigious competition, YoungArts award winners are chosen for their caliber of artistic achievement by esteemed discipline-specific panels of artists through a rigorous blind adjudication process.
We are incredibly proud of Lane, Dana, Caroline, and Veronica and cannot wait for them to represent our program and community in Miami! These four young women are incomparable exemplars of the intelligence, care, gumption, work ethic, and commitment that LJVA aims to instill in all of our artists, and we couldn’t be more excited for them in this well-deserved honor!
