2023 Gold Key and American Visions Nominees Exhibition
February 4, 2022 – March 6, 2022
Exhibition Opening: Friday, February 4, 2022, 5-9pm
KMAC Museum is honored to host an exhibition of the Scholastic Gold Key award winners and American Visions nominees for 2022. The exhibition will open on the first floor of the museum on Friday February 4th and be on view Wednesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. through March 6th.
The Scholastic Art and Writing Awards
Begun in 1923, the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards is the longest-running, most prestigious recognition program for creative teens in the U.S. and the largest source of scholarships for young artists and writers...the "Oscars" of the teen art world! The Alliance is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to identify students with exceptional artistic talent and present their remarkable work to the world through the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. The awards have an impressive roster of past art winners including Andy Warhol, Robert Redford, Charles White, Kay WalkingStick, Red Grooms, Robert Indiana, Richard Avedon, Zac Posen, and Tschabalala Self.
The Art Awards program recognizes the work of talented young artists in Grades 7-12. Jurors from a wide variety of art disciplines (professional artists, college/university faculty, and retired art educators) evaluate each work entered in one of sixteen 2D and 3D art and design process categories. Middle school submissions are juried separately from high school. Jurors do not know students’ names, schools, race, or gender and artwork is judged solely on three criteria: originality, technical proficiency, and emergence of a personal vision/style.
More than 13 million students have participated and more than $40 million has been distributed nationally in awards and scholarships in the past five years alone! Each year, more than 77,000 students in grades 7 through 12 participate in the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. Young artists across the country submit more than 300,000 creative works of art to a network of approximately 82 regional art affiliates.
Jefferson County Public Schools is the Regional Affiliate for the Art portion of the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards for the Louisville Metro Area Art Region and has been since 1991. The counties in our art region are: Jefferson, Bullitt, Hardin, Henry, Nelson, Oldham, Shelby, and Spencer in Kentucky; Clark, Crawford, Floyd, Harrison, and Washington in southern Indiana. Teens, grades 7-12 and ages 13-18, from public, private, and parochial schools, as well as homeschooled students, are eligible to participate.
The Scholastic Art Awards Process
Students register and submit entries using the Online Registration System (ORS) on the national website. A parent or guardian is required to sign submission forms, permitting their teen to submit specific artworks and participate in the Awards program. After the deadline for submissions, panels of local jurors blindly adjudicate all submissions by category for which signed submissions forms were sent to the regional office. Jurors are asked to weight three core values: originality, technical skill, and the emergence of a personal vision in determining whether a submission receives a Scholastic Award. No works submitted that follow the national and regional guidelines are disqualified from awards for content…complete freedom of expression; but awarded works with sensitive content may not be exhibited due to school, museum, or gallery policies.
Learn more about the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards
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