Photo Credit: Iñigo Sesma. Taken at Harrison Love's Compressed Culture show at the Greenpoint Gallery on April 6, 2012.
The art world can be a very daunting place, especially if you’re in New York City. There are surprisingly few places in New York that provide opportunities for young artists to show their work. Even with the resources that are available, exhibiting anywhere in this big city is a hard earned privilege.
This was no different for artist and illustrator Harrison Love, who won a Scholastic Art & Writing Award in 2004. Looking for the right opportunity to exhibit his work without feeling the bite of a gallery’s commission or percentage was no easy task. After looking for a year, Harrison was starting to become discouraged by the long wait list and huge commission percentage of galleries around the city.
Then, in the winter of 2011, there was finally a sign of light at the end of the tunnel. Read More
Our very own Justin Nissley (2001 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards winner) will have his first New York City solo show, Saints and Sinners, opening this Thursday, May 3 at Splashlight.
Until recently, Justin was a resident in the Alliance’s Atelier, our very first artists-in-residency program supported by the Esther B. Kahn Foundation. Read More
Jessica Bonaventure. Parallel Universes. Grade 12, Age 17. 2011 American Visions Award, Mixed Media.
Here at Scholastic headquarters in SoHo (NY), we’re used to being around a lot of artwork. A lot. Each of the twelve floors in this building is adorned with hundreds of award-winning artworks that span all 89 years of the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards program.
As the keepers of this collection, we at the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers wanted to know what Scholastic employees really wanted to see in the spaces and halls that they work in and pass by every day. So, we developed Scholastic Curates as a way to find out.
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Mel Bochner, Amazing!, 2011. Courtesy of Peter Freeman, Inc.
The National Gallery of Art’s “In the Tower” exhibition series celebrates developments in art since the mid-century. On view now through April 8, 2012, the series plays host to 43 thesaurus-inspired paintings and drawings that span 45 years of Mel Bochner’s career, many of which are on view for the very first time.
Mel Bochner (Scholastic Awards winner, 1958) is best-known for his groundbreaking work in conceptual art, creating pieces that compel the viewer to look, read and think simultaneously.
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Mara Sprafkin at the Atelier
By Paul Handler, Mara Sprafkin’s Studio Assistant
Mara and I recently spent two weeks inside a set of storefront windows as part of Atelier, a project set up by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers and hosted by the World Financial Center. Joining us behind the glass were five fellow Alliance Alumni and our favorite tweeter Nora Gomez.
When Mara works she tends to spread out. And while she initially attempted to adhere to the intended set up (i.e. sitting on a stool and painting on canvas at an easel), she quickly abandoned all of those things and made a nest for herself on the floor, moving from canvas to paper. Read More
Gold Key Gala at the World Financial Center. Photo by Ronnie Wright.
As we head into summer, we bid farewell to our 2011 season. The last couple of months have been busy and full of excitement with our National Celebration, Carnegie Hall Awards Ceremony, Gold Key Gala, ART.WRITE.NOW. National Exhibition and Alumni Atelier project! We began our season last year with 185,000 submissions of art and writing from across the country and ended our season in late May with 800 National Award winners flocking to New York City for National Events. For a recap of the Awards Ceremony at Carnegie Hall, click here. But, the fun didn’t end with that very special evening. We still had a lot to come…
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