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Nation's Best Teen Art & Writing Hits the Road!
Thousands of people attended the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Teen Exhibition this year at the World Financial Center Courtyard Gallery in New York City. The exhibit showcased a selection of the best teen art and writing from 30 categories, including Sculpture, Poetry, Short Story, Photography, Painting, Video Game Design and more. And now a segment of this remarkable exhibit will hit the road!
ART WRITE NOW is the first-ever traveling exhibition of The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Opening at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art on October 30, 2010, the exhibition will present a selection of 2010 Scholastic Award-winning works on the first stop of a tour where communities across America will be able to view what arts and literary professionals have deemed to be the best teen-produced work in the country.
More than fifty works of art and writing will be on display for approximately five weeks in each location. The exhibit will travel from Fort Wayne, IN, to Dallas, TX; Seattle, WA; Los Angeles, CA; and Philadelphia, PA. Public programming at each location will include an opening reception, a launch party and reading from the Alliance's annual publication The Best Teen Writing, an event to honor and recognize the teachers who support these creative students, and guided exhibition tours.
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Special Thanks
Thank you to all of those who helped to make the 2010 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards a historic event. Whether you served as judge, supported us with funds, or provided inspiration for our new roster of Scholastic Award winners, your participation helped make this a truly memorable year.
With your help, we hosted a full house at Carnegie Hall on June 9 with a record-breaking 600 students in attendance from across the nation. Teachers, parents, friends and donors applauded as these young visionaries took a bow, thankful for the recognition that the program provides.
Our successes are thanks to our partners, funders and friends who bear witness to the value of The Awards and continue to work with us to ensure that they remain the longest-running, most prestigious recognition program in the country and the largest source of scholarship funds for creative teens.
Learning from the Pros
On June 10, students and teachers participated in a day-long workshop series in New York where they were introduced to the city's cultural scene and rubbed elbows with professionals in the arts and literary worlds. More than 25 workshops were offered with highlights including talks by award-winning author and Studio 360's Kurt Andersen and creator of FOUND magazine Davy Rothbart; publishing tours at Rolling Stone, People, HarperCollins and Teen Vogue; a student reading at Bryant Park; and the first-ever student film screening at Tribeca Cinemas in collaboration with the world-famous Tribeca Film Festival.
Many thanks to the individuals and institutions who lent their time and efforts in support of our program. Also special thanks to Parsons The New School for Design who hosted several of the workshops and offered a hospitality area for parents.
Welcome! New York-Style
To celebrate the accomplishments of the 2010 National Award winners and to honor the impressive legacy of The Scholastic Awards, the Empire State Building was lit in gold on the evening of June 9. Despite the rainy night, Photography Portfolio Gold Medalist Max Mikulecky snapped this incredible pic.
In addition, Mayor Bloomberg officially proclaimed June 9, 2010, as The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Day. The Mayor and the Empire State Building joined the Alliance staff and board in congratulating the nation's top teen artists and writers.
Meet the 2010 Scholastic Awards Honorees
Alumni Achievement AwardThe Alumni honorees excelled in their creative pursuits and gained renown for their work in the literary and visual arts.
Mel Bochner (winner in 1958) is an internationally renowned conceptual artist. Major exhibitions of his work include Mel Bochner: Thought Made Visible 1966-1973 at the Yale University Art Gallery in 1995; Mel Bochner: Photographs 1966-1969 at the Harvard University Art Museums in 2002; and Mel Bochner: Language 1966-2006 at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2006. He will have a solo exhibition at Jeffrey Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco in 2010, and a major retrospective at Whitechapel, London, is currently being planned. Bochner is represented by Peter Freeman, Inc. in New York.
www.melbochner.net
Carolyn Forché (winner in 1969), is an award-winning poet and the author of four books of poetry. She is the recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, the Lamont Selection of the Academy of American Poets, The Los Angeles Times Book Award, and the Edita and Ira Morris Hiroshima Foundation for Peace and Culture Award. Forché has also transcribed several works and her articles and reviews have appeared in numerous publications. She is currently at work on a memoir and is a Lannan Visiting Professor of Poetry and Professor of English at Georgetown University.
http://www.blueflowerarts.com/carolyn-forché
Photo Credit: Emma Dodge Hanson
Excellence in the Field Award
The 2010 Affiliate honorees demonstrate a longtime commitment to The Awards.
Massachusetts Art Region, New England Art Education Conference, Inc.
The Massachusetts Art Region celebrated its 60th anniversary this year and has a long history of sponsorship by The Boston Globe. In the early 1990s, Dr. John Michael Gray adopted the program under the auspices of the New England Art Education Conference, Inc. and joined forces with his partner, Tim O'Connor, to co-manage the program. Sixty years later, the Massachusetts Art Region is thriving more than ever. The region received the highest number of submissions in its history with 10,000 works of art.
Ovation Inspired Teaching Awards
We are honored to present special awards to two teachers whose exemplary dedication to their students is commendable.
Taehyun Kang, Founder and Art Director, WOW Art Studio (Palisades Park, NJ)
It's been 12 years since Art Director Taehyun Kang founded WOW, an afterschool and weekend art studio for teenagers. Since 1998, he has trained and mentored hundreds of young artists and three Portfolio Gold Award winners as well. Under his leadership, WOW art students submitted the largest number of outstanding artworks in 2010.
Scott Gould, Chair, Creative Writing, South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts & Humanities (Greenville, SC )
Scott Gould is a teacher and author who has garnered a bevy of awards for his writing and teaching, including a Surdna Arts Teacher Fellowship, Literature Fellowship from the South Carolina Arts Commission, and publication in Kenyon Review, Carolina Quarterly and New Stories from the South, among others.
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