User:Sbowers3/sandbox/The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Program


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 * http://www.scholasticspts.com/aboutscholastic/news/press_111803b.htm
 * http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2007/10/10032007a.html

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The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Program is the country's largest competition for young writers and artists.

What do Richard Avedon, Joyce Carol Oates, Andy Warhol and Truman Capote have in common? As kids, they were all winners of the biggest creative arts awards program in America, which is still going strong in its 80th year. The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards Program gives out more than a million dollars a year to young writers and artists in America, grades 7-12, whose work is judged by panels of distinguished artists and writers. Maurice Robinson, the publisher of Scholastic Magazine, started the awards in 1923, when a teacher complained that athletes were the only students awarded scholarships.

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The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards has and always will be the foundation for the Alliance’s mission. As we celebrate the 85th anniversary of The Scholastic Awards during the 2007-2008 program year, we have an opportunity to shape the future of The Awards and the Alliance as well as to illuminate pathways for more creative young Americans. We continue seeking to identify emerging artists for college scholarship consideration, but also investing in the critical role of creative development for youth beginning in 7th grade. Since Scholastic founded the program in 1923, more than 13 million of America’s most talented junior high and high school youth (grades 7-12) have participated in The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, and 2.5 million have been recognized and shared in $25 million in cash awards and college scholarships. Local and national exhibitions and annual catalogs/anthologies serve as a record of student achievement since the late 1920's, chronicling early work from some of our nation's most accomplished artists and writers including: Richard Anuskiewicz, Richard Avedon,Harry Bertoia, Mel Bochner, Truman Capote, Paul Davis, Frances Farmer, Red Grooms, Robert Indiana, John Lithgow, Joyce Maynard, Bernard Malamud, Joyce Carol Oates, Tom Otterness,Phillip Pearlstein, Peter Beagle, Sylvia Plath, Robert Redford, Jean Stafford, Mozelle Thompson, Cy Twombley, Andy Warhol, Charles White and Sherley Anne Williams.

National award recipients of The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards are celebrated at an awards ceremony at Carnegie Hall in New York City. A highlights exhibition of select nationally-recognized art and writing work is displayed in New York coinciding with the national celebration events. For more information about participating in The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, click here.