FAITH NGUYEN, My Blood Bleed Gold, Film & Animation. Grade 11, North Allegheny Senior High School, Wexford, PA.

The Civic Expression Award, sponsored by the Maurice R. Robinson Fund, recognizes six teenagers whose artistic and literary works promote responsible civic life. Through critical essays, sculpture, film, and future new art, the students who received the 2020 Civic Expression Award show an awareness of the issues affecting their communities. Their exploration of these issues and the history surrounding them, as well as their recognition of their civic responsibility to find solutions in respectful and innovative ways, earned them this prestigious award, which includes a $1,000 scholarship for each student.

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GINA BAE, Hong Kong’s Fight for Free Press, Editorial Cartoon. Grade 10, Palo Alto High School, Palo Alto, CA.

The Herblock Award for Editorial Cartoon, sponsored by The Herb Block Foundation, was created to celebrate the legacy of four-time Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Herb Block. This award recognizes three students who exhibit exceptional skill in editorial cartooning in the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards and provides each student with a $1,000 scholarship.

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DREW CONRAD, Revealed and Exposed, Ceramics & Glass. Grade 12, Franklin High School, Franklin, MA. Roome Fund Art Portfolio

Welcome to the second week of our Gold Medal Portfolio series! This week we’re highlighting students Drew Conrad and Sam Bowden. Drew uses a variety of sculptures that vary in form and style to address the feelings of discomfort and conflict that can arise in life. Sam’s writing experiments with a wide swath of narratives, genres, and topics that all have one common theme: the universal effects of death and how it shapes the living.

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SKY STOCKTON, Why We Run, Film & Animation. Grade 12, St. Joseph High School, Saint Joseph, MI.

The New York Life Award was created in partnership with the New York Life Foundation to encourage teens whose works explore personal grief, loss, and bereavement. These brave students have created masterful works of art and writing that are not only an outlet for expression, but relatable stories that can help others struggling with loss. The Award is presented to six students in grades 7-12, along with $1,000 scholarships.

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2020 Alumni Writer-in-Residence Sophie Panzer

2020 Alumni Writer-in-Residence Pritha Bhattacharyya

The Alliance for Young Artists & Writers is pleased to announce that Pritha Bhattacharyya and Sophie Panzer have been selected by author and educator Yahdon Israel as the 2020 recipients of A Suite of One’s Own: A Writer’s Residency. Made possible by the support of The Roosevelt Hotel, this annual Writer’s Residency enables two Alumni of the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards to travel to New York City and spend five nights at the historic Roosevelt Hotel. Over the course of the Residency, Bhattacharyya and Panzer will be granted the time and space to focus on their writing projects, and receive opportunities to meet with literary professionals.

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A photograph by Arden Surdam from Offal, solo exhibition at ABXY, New York, NY, June - August 2019

A view of Tinan Nguyen's 2018 installation, Frogman Nationalism

A full-page spread from ZÀO: A History of Chinese Dishcourse through Famine and Revolution by Siri Lee

A stained glass sculpture by Kristi Cavataro

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