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Scholastic Art and Writing Awards winners art exhibit opening
Friday, Sept. 16, 2016, 11 a.m. to Noon
LBJ Auditorium, U.S. Department of Education
The exhibit will feature 65 pieces of work by the 2016 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards Gold Award winners in all categories of 2-D and 3-D art from around the country in middle through high school. This year’s exhibit will feature editorial cartoon winners for the first time. In a separate exhibit to open the same day and time at ED, works by students in New York City Schools who were regional Scholastic winners in 2016 will be featured as well.
An annual event at ED, the opening will feature keynote speaker Jessica Clark, named the 2014 “Woman to Watch” at the Eighth Annual Conference of American Indian Women of Proud Nations. Jessica was born and raised in Rowland, N.C. She is a member of the Lumbee Tribe of N.C. She received a B.A. in studio art from UNC Pembroke, and an M.F.A. in painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2010. She is currently employed by the Public Schools of Robeson County and resides in Fairmont, N.C. Jessica’s artwork documents and preserves the everyday life of the Lumbee and other Southeastern native people. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout the Southeast and is included in several public and private collections.
Joyce Silverthorne, director of the Department’s Office of Indian Education, will deliver welcoming remarks. Also speaking will be Virginia McEnerney, executive director of the Alliance of Young Artists & Writers, which runs the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards program, and Deborah Reeve, executive director of the National Art Education Association.
In addition to the artwork, at the center of the event will be a reading by the 2013 National Student Poet and a 2016 Scholastic Gold Medal Award for writing.
To attend the opening or for questions about it, contact jacquelyn.zimmermann@.
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