The Alliance for Young Artists & Writers,
a nonprofit organization that identifies teenagers with exceptional
artistic talent and brings their remarkable work to a national audience,
announced its winners of the Boston Globe Scholastic Art & Writing
Awards. This year five Creative Design Students won the Boston Globe
Scholastic Art Awards. Seamus Donaldson, a junior and
two year completer in RSTA’s Creative Design program, received the
Boston Globe Scholastic Art Award Gold Key award for his Bill of Rights
poster and a Silver Key for his Anti-Discrimination Post Card. As a Gold
Key recipient, his work will automatically entered into the National
Judging. Noah Zibellow, a junior and two year completer
in RSTA's Creative Design program, received the Boston Globe Scholastic
Art Award Silver Key award for his Shop Inman By Moonlight poster and a
Silver Key for his Anti-Discrimination Post Card. Mateo Mariscal, a sophomore in the Creative Design program, received a Silver Key for his Drawer label, Sketchbook and Binder series.
Stephanie Walsh, a junior and two year completer in the Creative Design program, received Honorable Mention for her Dance Work Poster. Keisha Lamarre,
a junior and two year completer in the Creative Design program,
received Honorable Mention for her Book Cover Design. The Scholastic Art
& Writing Awards continues to be 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. School of
the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (SMFA) is the 2013–14 school year
affiliate sponsor of the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards in the
state of Massachusetts. Although SMFA has offered scholarships to
national Scholastic Award–winning seniors for the past seven years, it
has announced plans to establish a special scholarship program
specifically for Massachusetts students receiving national Scholastic
Awards. The new program will provide a $70,000 award to be distributed
equally over the course of a four year undergraduate degree.
Students
from around the country in grades 7-12 submit their best work in more
than 30 categories, including animation, poetry, sculpture, fashion
design, journalism, photography, novel writing, science fiction, and
video game design, which are evaluated by a panel of local jurors
comprised of artists, authors, educators and other arts
professionals. Works submitted are evaluated on the time-honored
criteria of originality, technical skill and the emergence of a personal
vision or voice.
The Scholastic Awards are the largest source of
scholarship funds for creative teens in the U.S., offering recognition,
exhibition, publication and scholarship opportunities to outstanding
students in art and writing. Year after year the program grows with
increased participation from students and communities across the
country. In the past five years alone, submissions have topped 700,000
works, and students have been eligible for over $25 million in awards
and scholarships.
Download RSTA's 2014 Boston Globe Scholastic Award Winners Poster >>