This exhibition features a selection of artwork by teens from across the United States who received the highest national recognition in the 2024 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards: the Gold and Silver Portfolio Award, The Herblock Award for Editorial Cartoon, the New York Life Award, and the Gold Medal Award. Presented by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, the Scholastic Awards are the longest-running and most prestigious recognition program for creative teens in the United States. Established in 1923, the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards bring the work of young people to regional and national audiences. Former recipients include artists Andy Warhol, Cy Twombly, Kay WalkingStick, and John Baldessari—all represented in The Met collection—and writers Stephen King, Amanda Gorman, and Joyce Carol Oates.
Each work in the exhibition was selected through a rigorous adjudication process, based on originality, skill, and emergence of a personal voice or vision. On view is a collection of artworks by creative and thoughtful young artists, who, with various motivations, felt compelled and empowered to interpret the world around them. They ask: Can you see how I see? Can you feel how I feel?
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The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards are presented by the 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, and are made possible through the generosity of Scholastic Inc., The Destina Foundation, New York Life Foundation, The Maurice R. Robinson Fund, BLICK Art Materials, Command Companies, The Herb Block Foundation, Lindenmeyr Book Publishing Papers, Quad and the Windhover Foundation, Public Funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Don’t Hide It, Flaunt It, RBC Foundation USA, Morgan Stanley, HP, Bloomberg Philanthropies, GV Group (Grafica Veneta/Lake Book Manufacturing/PA Hutchison), National Endowment for the Arts, Garcia Family Foundation, The New York Times, and numerous other individual, foundation, and corporate funders; and, for the National Student Poets Program, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, The Hearthland Foundation, and Academy of American Poets.
